João Canijo Movies

Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a...

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer...

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

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

The journey of 11 women while they go on a pilgrimage from Bragança to Fatima.

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships...

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.

West, end of the summer. Laura works at the pear harvesting, a family business. During the afternoon, Carol arrives at the village to spend a few...

In today's Alentejo, a story of love and death based in a real criminal case.

An actress travels to Lisbon representing a film where she has a secondary role, regarding nobody else was available to go. In the Q&A in the...

A hotel by the northern shore of Portugal welcomes its guests over the weekend. A man is torn between being present for his wife and the space that...

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

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

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

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

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...

This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed...

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

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a...