Paulo Branco Filmes

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...

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's...

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...

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

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

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on...

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his...

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night...

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...

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

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.

Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to...

In Victorian London lives a man of adventurous spirit and great wit, Charles Augustus Howell, art agent, art dealer, conspirator and master of...

When a famous playwright invites the cast of his new play - including his enchanting assistant, his ex-wife and her new lover - to his country...

Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of...

The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his...