Isabel Branco Movies

Episodes from throughout the entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a conscripted student of history recounts them to his...

Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas

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

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

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...

Accused of adultery, Ana Augusta Plácido and Camilo Castelo Branco were imprisoned for more than a year in the Porto Prison, she in June 1860,...

Ricardo is a transvestite. After a failed attempt of suicide, he has to come back to his roots and to relearn how to live with the inspiring help of...

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...

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as...

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 island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

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...

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

Catalyst in the story of crossed paths is a 1957 Ford Fairlane being driven through Portugal’s Alentejo region to a new owner. Film’s...

Jorge is a loner and a writer of popular books. At night, he looks through other people's windows and thinks that they are truly happy.