Canto e Castro Movies

The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diogo Infante

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to...

Genre: History

Cast: Lima Duarte

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joaquim Oliveira

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo Pires

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saúl Fonseca

Miguel (Luis Miguel Cintra) is lucky that his income will only level off if he neglects his business as a financier, and his wife and family will be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diogo Infante

Estefânia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquim Manuel Dias

Two simple, unassuming, apolitical men have their lives changed forever when they find themselves hunted by agents of the ruling dictatorship.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vítor Norte

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vítor Norte

Irene is an agent for an insurance company. She is given the job of investigating the disappearance of an elderly librarian in a provincial town....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rui Mendes

Nino, tough but sickly, and his older brother Vicente live in the country with their father. After their father disappears ― we’re never...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her...

Genre: Crime

Cast: María Santiago

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

Duke is the name of a journalist who investigates the famous Ballet Rose case. During the investigation, he stumbles upon a mysterious murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: José Neto

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Cast: Márcia Breia

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fabienne Babe

Neves and his wife Celia are the owners and managers of the 'Little Star Pension', a familiar hotel that caters to bourgeois family and would-be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Herman José

O Visconde is based on the same Álvaro do Carvalhal short story as Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals.

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Cast: Maria Albergaria

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stefano Accorsi

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mário Barroso

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Miguel Guilherme

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sofia Alves

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teresa Roby

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexandra Leite

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s...

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Cast: Canto e Castro

The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dina Sfat

João is a freelance television journalist. When he begins a new story about an old pigeon breeder in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rita Martins

Nogueira, a man in his fifties, is a relic of times long past. While the youngsters at the school where he works as a caretaker still think the world...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

A couple in search of a different life, move from the city to the countryside and confront unexpected events without breaking their union.

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Cast: Diogo Infante

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

In mid-September 1992, journalist Guida Fontes have to go to Luanda to cover the elections in Angola. In the meantime, she had committed herself to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joana Bárcia

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Canto e Castro

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

Twenty years ago, Henrique left Portugal for the peaceful Netherlands. A colonial war veteran, he desperately wanted to get away from his country...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Baião

Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rogério Samora

Based on the work by Fernando Pessoa - a "message" about the destinies of Portugal - not just in isolation but looking at them as precursors and...

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Cast: Filipe Ferrer

Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Sarrus

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Lagarto

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francis Frappat

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernanda Torres

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sophie Marceau

Mário was involved in a terrorist attack in Africa. Everyone thinks it was an accident but Mário knows it wasn’t. Now, hiden in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diogo Infante

A teen girl is wrongfully suspected for a crime. A former cop helps her to proof her innocence. There's only one problem : her behavior brings the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Johnny Hallyday

António, a factory worker of immense musical talent, is discovered by a business man who launches him as a singer. Nevertheless, this changes...

Genre: Music

Cast: António Calvário

A 1985 Portuguese language drama film directed by Manuel Costa e Silva, starring Luis Varela, Teresa Goucho and Vitorino Salomé. The film...

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Cast: Luís Varela