Paulo Branco Movies

Alexandra Lencastre plays a woman who believes she is President of the U.S.A.

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...

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was...

Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little...

This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women...

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.

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

When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she...

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks...

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

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

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...

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...

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

An impossible love. Two young people who love each other. Vera and João can’t find in this life the space, time, or identity to resolve...

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing,...

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...

Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the...

Lives is the story of a middle-aged couple that dwells the night, the heroin and small tricks.

A man who grew up in the '80s, in the midst of the pirate-radio scene, works now at a big, modern radio station, but still holds on to his love for a...