Paulo Branco Movies

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

Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538,...

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her...

A man exiled in Paris makes various trips to Portugal after the Carnation Revolution. Each trip is represented by a woman.

The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply...

The battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores, Rogério, a young man with old money, and his...

A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.

When the comedy duo Gus and Andy are forced by their manager to form a trio with a talented actress, their working relationship gets strained.

Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has...

Leon falls in love with a nurse and obsessively tries to get close to her.

This is the story of a young Mozambican footballer called Eusébio, a gifted athlete destined to great achievements, coveted by rival clubs,...

A pagan tradition in a village in the countryside of Portugal leaves painful traces in a group of young teenagers. 25 years later, when they meet...

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

What is the nature of life? What is the nature of art? How can art influence our lives? These are the questions of this movie. The main character, a...

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

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

The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by...

Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort. They accidentally fall into overnight wealth...

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...