João Canijo Movies

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...

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...

Welcome to Lisbon: there are mermaids by the Tagus and birds flying over the old city; there are mad scientists and singing fish; lost tourist guides...

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating...

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...

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

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

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

A moment in the life of a grievieng mother with the identity crisis of her teenage daughter. The mother insists on wanting to understand what she...

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

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

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.

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

A journey through the Beiras region. The houses, the cafes, the streets, the people still living in them. What the lands were and are, and the...

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

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...

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...

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

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