Paulo Branco Movies

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...

A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon...

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

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

The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.

In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped...

The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a...

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He...

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet...

In a specialized, hermetic drama about love won and lost, not necessarily by the same individuals, novice director Christine Laurent has focused on...

Pavese considered Dialogues with Leucò his best work. Eloquent and at the same time sententious and fragile, but implausible among humanized...

A loner, narcissistic and suicidal teenager attracts most of the people he meets like a fatal aura, a black light. He falls deeply in love with...

Sonia, a girl from St. Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in Western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is...

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks...

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

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...