Mário Castanheira Filmes

In an abandoned prison complex, without any basic conditions, a man survives like a wild animal. When his security and tranquility are threatened, he...

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

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

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...

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South...

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

Tiago is a final-year secondary school student who has failed to graduate twice. Despite praying to the divine, he will fail once again. Between...

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....

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

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...

A couple of traveling artists, Léon and Elvira Berthelini, who earn their living performing in taverns and cafes, arrive in the village of...

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She...

The film follows the adventures of a bride and her family on the verge of a nervous breakdown on her wedding day.