Best movies of João Canijo

Actors : Cleia Almeida, Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Rafael Morais,
Directors : João Canijo,

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

Actors : Cleia Almeida, Madalena Almeida, Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco,
Directors : João Canijo,

Follows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.

Actors : Fernando Luís, Cleia Almeida, Rita Blanco, Beatriz Batarda,
Directors : João Canijo,

"Noite Escura" is a disturbing movie about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Actors : Nuno Lopes, Leonor Silveira, Filipa Areosa, Rafael Morais,
Directors : João Canijo,

Five women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict.

Actors : Alda Gomes, Adriano Luz, Rita Blanco, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João Canijo,

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 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, ...

Actors : Fernando Luís, Márcia Breia, Anabela Moreira, Gonçalo Waddington,
Directors : João Canijo,

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form... See full synopsis »

Actors : João Reis, Vítor Norte, Ana Bustorff, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João Canijo,

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

Actors : Anne Gautier, Isabel de Castro, Pedro Hestnes, Rita Blanco,
Directors : João Canijo,

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 from her father, an aunt who emigrated to ...