Paulo Branco Movies

Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.

Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first...

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.

The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The...

An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love...

When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own...

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...

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The...

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

The complex relationship between master and servant is explored in director João Botelho's adaptation of Denis Diderot's popular novel Jacques...

A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...

Zico has a thirst for elsewhere. He embarks on a cargo shop in Le Havre. Soon, tensions with the rest of the crew and repeated damages undermine his...

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

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

In the wake of his daughter's disappearance, a father wallowing in grief feeds his desire to find her with unusual methods.

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.

Mário and Cláudia are going through a divorce process. When Cláudia accepts job in another country, situation will lead parents...

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.