Paulo Branco Movies

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this...

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

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...

In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese...

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

Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled. She...

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

In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic...

An exhausted militant wants to take a break from the incessant frenzy surrounding him. His country’s dictatorship is on its last legs and chaos...

Mimi isn't a star, she's just someone. A close-up of the singularity of a real life. An encounter of someone's particular story, romance, fantasy and...

Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross...

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

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be...

Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution,...

After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with...

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences...

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

Lisbon, on a winter day in 1994, between six and fourteen o'clock. A forty-year-old woman despairs in the last eight hours preceding the birth of her...

With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young...