João Canijo

Hotel do Rio

Release Date:2024-07-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

O Pomar

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 vacation days with her friends. That night, when Laura catches them stealing pears from one of her father’s orchards, her friend confronts her about her true intent.

Release Date:2024-04-07

Character:Pai

Living Bad

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 his mother takes up between the two of them. A mother encourages her daughter’s marriage to enable her own love affair with her son-in-law. Another mother lives through her daughter, preventing her from making her own decisions. Three families at the end of their cycles of acceptance.

Release Date:2023-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Bad Living

In a family-run hotel, by the Portuguese northern shore, lives a group of women from different generations of the same family, whose relationships with each other have grown poisoned by bitterness. They try to survive in the declining hotel, as the unexpected arrival of a granddaughter to this oppressive space stirs trouble, reviving latent hatred and piled-up resentments.

Release Date:2023-05-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:9

Fojos

Castro Laboreiro, in the far north of Portugal, is a place whose hills lead to a dead-end street. They call it the end-of-the-world’s pit. Men and wolves live abreast. Wolves leave their lair to freely attack the preys of men locked in their burrows. Both trapped in this huge pitfall called life from where no-one gets out alive.

Release Date:2020-09-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Diary of Beiras

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 testimonies of those still living there. The day-by-day of some of those people – less and less, and increasingly aged. And alone.

Release Date:2017-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Caminhos da Alma - Fátima

The pilgramage of 11 women in 9 days and 400km to Fátima.

Release Date:2017-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Fátima

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

Release Date:2017-04-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

The Day of My Wedding

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

Release Date:2016-07-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Los Barcos

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 Cinematheque she doesn't know how to answer the audience questions.

Release Date:2016-01-29

Portugal: One Day at a Time

A journey that begins in the far north of Portugal, and visits a dozen of villages and places in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. The houses, the cafés, the streets and the people who still live there. It is the picture of the day-to-day of some of these people, who are ever fewer, and ever more elderly. And lonely. People who live their lives one day at a time.

Release Date:2015-10-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Here in Lisbon

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 and lost tourists; fado and sad guitars. What a weird city you may think - but no. Lisbon is about being different, sarcastic, welcoming to foreigners even in an economic crisis. Different directors became fascinated by our strangeness. We became fascinated by these directors. The city is never the same in these four episodes, here in Lisbon.

Release Date:2015-04-24

Character:(segment "Los Barcos")

Vote Count:2

That's Love

In Caxinas, a fishing neighborhood in Vila do Conde, a city on the north of Portugal, the relationship between the fishermen and their wives is based on vital trust and reciprocal and absolute dependence, in order to assure their families survival.

Release Date:2013-04-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Raul Brandão was a Great Writer...

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

Release Date:2012-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Obligation

In Caxinas, the relationship between the woman and the fisherman is founded on trust, born of their mutual and complete dependence, which is vital for the survival of the family. The wife and the fisherman trust and depend on each other, one to survive, the other to manage his life.

Release Date:2012-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Blood of My Blood

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

Release Date:2011-09-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:29

The Actor's Work

Throughout a year's work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to develop the most important scenes of that plot until it takes its ultimate form, in the film which results from this work.

Release Date:2011-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Lusitanian Illusion

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Release Date:2010-04-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Misbegotten

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She wears mourning in remembrance of her mothers crime and betrayal, and gives vent to her inconsolable pain to make sure theres no rest or respite for the killers of her father. She lives in hope of her brothers return so she can fulfil her promise of avenging her fathers blood.

Release Date:2007-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Mãe Há Só Uma

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 only should accept, the daughter can not explain what should be accepted.

Release Date:2006-10-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

In the Darkness of the Night

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

Release Date:2004-10-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

Fugas.pt

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

A Audição

Release Date:2002-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Get a Life

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, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

Release Date:2001-05-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Tarde Demais

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 struggle to survive.

Release Date:2000-03-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8

Black Shoes

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

Release Date:1998-04-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:8

Sai da Minha Vida

Release Date:1996-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:14

The Convent

The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.

Release Date:1995-09-06

Department:Production

Job:Production Manager

Vote Count:25

Cluedo

Release Date:1995-03-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:13

Lisbon Story

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 film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Release Date:1994-12-16

Department:Production

Job:Line Producer

Character:Crook

Vote Count:117

Blind Man's Bluff

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.

Release Date:1994-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Production Manager

Vote Count:11

Crystal Book

This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.

Release Date:1994-11-11

Department:Production

Job:Production Manager

Alentejo Sem Lei

Release Date:1991-01-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

Lovely Child

Maria is a sweet child. She hasn’t father and doesn’t like her mother. She has a boyfriend, A bandit who would like to change his class.

Release Date:1990-05-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Step by Step

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 is their oyster, Nogueira knows that, for him, most doors have long closed.

Release Date:1990-04-11

Vote Count:5

Crimes do Coração

Release Date:1989-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Three Less Me

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 France, and her pre-adolescent sister, can't do - neither the boyfriend. Such a confident arrives unexpectedly - but then there are three of them, one too much. One leaves, but then another young man arrives, and there are three again. One must go. A sad young adult love story, told in the first person, singular - and ultimately alone, under the rain.

Release Date:1988-02-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Mountains of the Moon

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manuela de Freitas) both loves and hates him as Joao plays on her wavering emotional state. He is sent to Italy to retrieve wayward family member Antonia (Caroline Chaniolleau), the beautiful young woman with a terrorist boyfriend. Joao is forced to recognize his feelings as the political and amorous climate changes around him.

Release Date:1987-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:3

The Rose King

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

Release Date:1986-03-03

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:17

Ninguém Duas Vezes

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.

Release Date:1985-04-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:5

Half in Love

Release Date:1984-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

In the White City

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

Release Date:1983-03-11

Department:Directing

Job:Second Assistant Director

Vote Count:37

The State of Things

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 is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Release Date:1982-03-22

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:73

Fim de Estação

Release Date:1982-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director