Paulo Branco Movies

This odd film is a major representative of an even odder film genre: direct-to-celluloid opera. It was commissioned by the Portuguese master of...

Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see...

A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy...

A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversation meanders through memories, unspoken...

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

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

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

Michel and Juliette have just broken up over Michel's affair with the much younger Romance. Alice and Nicolas are still together, but maybe this is...

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why he did not produce anything for eight...

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

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

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...

A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single...

Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs....

Ana is a young Portuguese girl who lives with her grandmother. Through their relationship, we are witness to the Cycle of Life: Grandmother takes...

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

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in...

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years...