Paulo Branco Movies

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

On a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence...

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

In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha...

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...

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking...

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...

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Pamela is stuck in her contradictions, failures and absolute love for her family, she feels lost and seems incapable of imagining how she could live...

Nora comes out of prison. She only has one thing in mind: finding a youg neo-punk artist she admires, Léa. Mirror of one another, these two...

A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without...

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

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

An unexpected meeting on Twitter, introduces young actress Luísa to António, a writer and journalist, who hides his identity using...

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...

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

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

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...

Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.

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