Madragoa Filmes Movies

A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and str...

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the document...

Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had prev...

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the...

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon lea...

David has a wife and young daughter. In a few days he will be moving abroad with his family. The death of his grandfather obliges him to return to the...

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren w...

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" reali...

Sonia, a girl from St. Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in Western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is sudden...

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques le Fata...

A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetua...

Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura),a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof...

A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the...

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

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in...