Paulo Branco Movies

Based on the letters of a fictitious poetess to her lover. Duras reads extracts from these letters, as the film shows a boat journey down the Seine,...

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

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

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...

A film about two young women, trying to decide how to go on with their lives and loves: Marie just dumped her boyfriend, who's married and can see...

Since 1980 German institutions send teens to the south of Portugal under experimental projects of social rehabilitation. That's how Katrin comes to...

A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.

Portugal, late 1940's. André must leave the country after running away from prison. In Oporto some friends get him a guide, Lambaça, a...

The first feature in António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro’s trilogy is a journey through this almost mythical region of north-east...

Centered on an elderly matriarch and her family in the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal. An exploration of the cycle of life and death, using...

The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing...

In Uruguay, where he lives with his wife and son Thomas, Orlando Vargas suffers from pressure from the government. Permanently watched by a...

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

A story of love and deception, set against a backdrop marked by the actions of the political police under the Salazar dictatorship, censorship,...

Vicente goes to Egypt to cover some news for his newspaper, but then he decides to take the investigation further, along the Tropic of Cancer,...

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.

On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son,...

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and...

An intriguing story about a family and a manor house (where some terrible crimes were committed in the past by a member of that family) adapted from...

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...