The Crime of Father Amaro

The Crime of Father Amaro

A story of love and desire.

2005120 min5.3 / 10

A morally conflicted drama about a priest's transgressive love affair that forces a collision between vows and desire, faith and human weakness.

A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro"), a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.

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