Paulo Branco Movies

During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France’s most desert-like region. The cast is as follows: An...

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.

Taiti, 1903. Doctor, poet and artist Victor Segalen left France and headed for Hiva-Oa, to meet Gauguin personally. On his arrival on the island, he...

Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.

Trapped in a dirty double deal, Ernst Ipsum, celebrated art authenticator, is in trouble. With nowhere to turn but inward, Ernst becomes the perfect...

Félix, a Down syndrome child who is passionate about soccer gets the opportunity to take part in the main soccer team in a match against the...

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...

Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he...

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

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

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

Vincent, a young Swiss, is upset by his meeting with the city of Lisbon. He will meet two persons: a prostitute of high flight and a great writer...

After the structural collapse at a construction site, Paulo loses his job because he denounces the situation to the authorities.

He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine,...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son,...

The story is about a woman who is going to Trieste (a city in Italy) to search for informations about a writer who has never written.

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda,...