Most Popular Paulo Branco Trailers
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08 August 1997
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
13 May 2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
31 March 2000
A touching and tragic real life story about a group of Portuguese fishermen who get caught in the middle of a storm in the Tejo river (Lisbon) and struggle to survive.
08 January 2014
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp.
16 July 2008
After his father leaves home for another woman, 16-year-old Martial has to move with his mother, Sabine, to a more modest apartment.
01 September 1981
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
16 April 2003
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world.
30 October 1992
Portrait of the last days of the life of Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco.
21 April 2010
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 estate, a series of seductions and surprising alliances ensue.
09 October 1996
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 Francis, a much older American ex-con.
18 January 2012
Vincent lives in Dubaï. When his wife Livia goes missing, he is immediately concerned and sets out to look for her.
13 November 2016
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.
13 March 2002
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren wife, his one-armed manservant, and his treasured guard dog.
16 September 2004
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a curious and somewhat moving friendship between the child and a Russian migrant worker who in a certain way replaces his estranged father.
01 April 2004
Laura works as a newscaster and José Maria as a stockbroker, and while they live in the same housing complex, their lives never cross directly.
29 April 1994
Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner.
01 January 2000
Zé Alberto and Laura are lovers, and have a clandestine and permanently threatened relationship. Zé Alberto is married to Fernanda, Laura's sister, whose husband is in prison for murder.
16 November 1990
The world after the atomic age. An engineer disappears, together with his consortium (Kryo'Corp) and his discovery: a new energy source powered by the fusion of two primary substances.
29 March 1995
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer.
25 September 2013
When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything.
30 November 2001
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
24 October 2002
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" realise that time has accentuated their differences.
25 January 2010
Humberto hanged himself. Catarina, Paulo and Victor want the company where Humberto used to work for to take responsibility in his death, leading them to kidnappe the company’s director in an act of despair.
13 December 2017
Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation.
01 January 2004
Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal
11 June 1982
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
01 January 2010
Félix, a Down syndrome child who is passionate about soccer gets the opportunity to take part in the main soccer team in a match against the rival school.
15 October 2015
It’s 1942, and Portugal languishes under dictatorship and WWII rages just beyond its borders. Secrets, half-truths, and mistrust prevail in the state security office of chief inspector Varga, who makes professional privilege a cover for his unprofessional interest in a boldly carnal refugee and her alleged brother.
15 September 2004
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years earlier, is now a famous movie star called Louise Sandoli.
01 August 2001
Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days.
01 April 1985
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
03 June 1987
Mércedès, an actress from Paris attempts to break off a difficult relationship with the jealous and possessive stalker Johnny.
04 March 1998
Two friends are taken hostage while on their way to see a childhood buddy.
05 May 2016
Lazarus de Jesus is the adopted son of a wealthy lady from Lisbon, whom he calls Grandmother. It is she who introduces him to Godfather, a great businessman who takes him as his protégé, and Angelina, the woman Grandma wants him to marry.
02 April 1999
In order to make some much-needed cash for himself, 65-year-old Portuguese prison inmate Eugenio impersonates a young woman and begins a romantic correspondence with a lonely Portuguese truck-driver living in Boston, convincing him that her tragic life has culminated in financial dire straits so he will send money.
23 October 2008
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
10 February 2022
The story takes place near Lisbon, in the mid-16th century. Bela, an adopted young man, tries to find his place in a family that is free, but trapped in a world where each shadow allows imperfections to shine through.
22 July 1998
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.
10 December 2005
A group of drop-outs, losers and criminals are travelling in a stolen Mercedes seemingly aimlessly along numerous derelict houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old decaying state farm in Crimea, the southern tip of the former Soviet Union, where the mother, wife and daughter of one of them live.
01 September 1987
Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid.
31 December 1998
Young Jesus is taken on a vacation by his parents (Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz) to a deserted beach resort.
27 January 1999
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 ephemeral relationships and one-night stands.
12 October 2023
In the mid-20th century, a troubled relationship between Germana, a young writer, and Quina, her aunt who lives in the northern Portuguese countryside.
03 March 2006
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
15 May 1996
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
07 September 1990
An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.
19 May 1999
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
19 May 2004
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
05 September 2007
Lúcia is misbegotten, unloved and the eternal widow of her own father. A cry of rage in bodily form, she is mad, maltreated and humbled.
03 March 1986
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
09 September 2004
Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles.
06 April 1988
This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection.
28 August 1976
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
27 March 1996
Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine.
28 February 1996
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both.
24 October 2024
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, poet and novelist, finds out that his father left papers in the Namib desert that would help him shed light on a mystery that occurred in 1923.
22 January 2003
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show.
06 January 1999
Micheline, who is pregnant, lives in a home for women from which she tries to observe the world with calm and serenity.
09 February 2012
A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.
25 May 2012
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a self-made 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
