Paulo Branco

Paulo Branco

June 3, 1950 · 76 years old

Paulo Branco (born 3 June 1950) is a Portuguese film producer. Branco is also well known as the producer who has had the greatest number of films selected at Cannes Film Festival and the greatest number of films having competed for the Golden Palm He presented 53 films in Cannes - 27 of which in Of…

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37 titles
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Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis

2012 · 1h 49m · Movie

A 28-year-old billionaire senses his empire collapsing around him.

5.1
2
The Captain

The Captain

2018 · 1h 58m · Movie

In the last moments of World War II, a young German airman fighting for survival finds a Luftwaffe captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.

7.5
3
Until the End of the World

Until the End of the World

1991 · 4h 47m · Movie

Claire and Eugene's relationship is falling apart, while a nuclear satellite threatens to fall out of orbit and destroy Earth. Claire travels the world when she meets Sam, a man with connections to technology that could change eve...

6.8
4
Love Songs

Love Songs

2007 · 1h 31m · Movie

Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.

7.0
5
Ma mère

Ma mère

2004 · 1h 50m · Movie

When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.

5.0
6
Dans Paris

Dans Paris

2006 · 1h 29m · Movie

After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul (Romain Duris) sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father (Guy Marchand) and aimless brother Jona...

6.3
7
The Blue Room

The Blue Room

2014 · 1h 16m · Movie

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there...

6.3
8
Devil Fish

Devil Fish

1984 · 1h 34m · Movie

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

2.7
9
Marcel Proust's Time Regained

Marcel Proust's Time Regained

1999 · 2h 49m · Movie

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

6.7
10
Boredom

Boredom

1998 · 2h 2m · Movie

Martin is a philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might have killed her former lover.

6.0
11
The Captive

The Captive

2000 · 1h 58m · Movie

An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.

6.0
12
Cosmos

Cosmos

2015 · 1h 43m · Movie

A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.

5.7
13
Fidelity

Fidelity

2000 · 2h 46m · Movie

A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.

5.6
14
Cztery noce z Anna

Cztery noce z Anna

2008 · 1h 27m · Movie

A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.

6.8
15
Lines of Wellington

Lines of Wellington

2012 · 2h 31m · Movie

On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from...

6.0
16
Three Lives and Only One Death

Three Lives and Only One Death

1996 · 2h 3m · Movie

Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.

6.8
17
Abraham's Valley

Abraham's Valley

1993 · 3h 7m · Movie

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, bu...

7.3
18
In the White City

In the White City

1983 · 1h 48m · Movie

A Swiss sailor abandons his post during a stopover in Lisbon and takes up residence in a small hotel in the city.

7.3
19
Three Crowns of the Sailor

Three Crowns of the Sailor

1991 · 1h 57m · Movie

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

7.1
20
City of Pirates

City of Pirates

1984 · 1h 51m · Movie

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

7.2
21
The Inner Life of Martin Frost

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

2007 · 1h 34m · Movie

Martin Frost writes a story featuring a mysterious woman, Claire Martin, who appears in his life; their fates intertwine with the tale he writes, blurring reality and fiction in an intriguing mystery exploring the artistic process.

5.1
22
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

2018 · 1h 18m · Movie

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and its tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.

6.7
23
Francisca

Francisca

1981 · 2h 46m · Movie

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.

7.0
24
Tricheurs

Tricheurs

1984 · 1h 34m · Movie

Exploring themes of addiction, sexual power games, and compulsive behavior, a powerfully impudent look into the world of gambling addicts, Suzie is cast among a stylish milieu of gamblers on a Portuguese island.

6.2
25
Remains of the Wind

Remains of the Wind

2022 · 2h 7m · Movie

A pagan tradition from the interior of Portugal leaves painful marks on a group of teenagers. Twenty-five years later, when they reunite, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.

7.1
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The Last Dive

The Last Dive

1992 · 1h 28m · Movie

Eloi stops Samuel from jumping into the sea and takes him to meet Esperança, the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon - who happens to be Eloi's daughter.

6.8
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Love Torn in a Dream

Love Torn in a Dream

2000 · 2h 0m · Movie

Coming to you as if from a dream half-remembered, two oneiric fantasies by the great Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz. First, a great guide - with pages torn out - for beginners, this picture has stories-within-stories covering nearly t...

7.1
28
Mysteries of Lisbon

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010 · 4h 26m · Movie

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

7.5
29
Silvestre

Silvestre

1982 · 2h 0m · Movie

The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to sa...

7.3
30
Astragal

Astragal

2015 · 1h 36m · Movie

L'Astragale is a 2015 French drama film directed by Brigitte Sy. It is the second film adaptation of the 1965 semi-autobiographical novel L'Astragale by Albertine Sarrazin, after Guy Casaril's L'Astragale.

5.8
31
The Territory

The Territory

1981 · 1h 40m · Movie

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, ...

6.3
32
The Black Book

The Black Book

2018 · 1h 53m · Movie

A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.

5.3
33
Winter's Child

Winter's Child

1989 · 1h 24m · Movie

A man leaves his pregnant wife because he does not want to be a father, then he begins a relationship with another woman who loves someone else.

6.1
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This Is My Body

This Is My Body

2001 · 1h 27m · Movie

Young student Antoine jumps off studies to follow an acting career, and is offered a main role after a boy who killed himself after a fling with the director.

5.4
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At an Uncertain Time

At an Uncertain Time

2015 · 1h 15m · Movie

Two French refugees are arrested during the Portuguese fascist regime, a police inspector decides to hide them at his home, while his wife consumed by jealousy, tries to make them disappear at all costs.

5.7