Mário Castanheira Movies

Every night, in danger of being beheaded, Scheherazade tells King Shahryar unfinished tales to continue them the following night, hence defying his...

Sophie left her homeland, the United States, after a secret tragedy. In Paris, she divides her time between an opera house, where she is the dresser...

In a distant past, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, itinerant artists, make their living hopping from town to town. In Covarronca, harassed by the...

A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father...

Fed up with the sea, Paul, a Swiss mechanic working in the noisy bowels of a merchant ship, lands in Lisbon.

Crista, Carloto and João are building an airy greenhouse for butterflies in the garden. The three of them share household routines, day after...

A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

João is an indolent young man, whose life is desperately empty. Day after day he goes through the motions of duplicating keys in his tiny shop...

This film is an attempt to disclose if Raul Brandão has left any trace, in Nespereira, Gumarães.

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she...

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that...

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Rute is a teenager like so many others: she goes to school, she has swimming lessons, she likes watching films and specially she loves to be online....

The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by...