Miguel Monteiro Movies

This really happened, or so it is said. In 1840, a few years after the Portuguese Civil War, a young man arrived at a village by the Douro, carrying...

What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where...

The character of a novel gains life to torment the author, revisiting and reliving the story of a crime.

Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great...

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an...

Anna is a famous striptease dancer who falls for her body without shame. She is accused of theft and questioned the commissioner Lourenço,...

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs,...

In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town....

Set in the romantic and multicultural city of Lisbon, the love story between a shy Brazilian man and a fearless Portuguese young woman is haunted by...

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China,...

The family of Ana Luisa meets at home to celebrate her father's birthday. As the guests sit around the table they will share memories of the past, in...

Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard,...

Years after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that justice cannot solve while she is moving in a universe...

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells...

A young girl goes through a series of strange events after she is dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday and loses her job.

Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley.

The story of a 24 year-old, who grew up in an institution for six years and returned home of their host family. He lives with his younger brother...