Paulo Branco — Producer (19)
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A Talking Picture (2003) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Um Filme Falado
director: Manoel de Oliveira actor: Leonor Silveira / Filipa de Almeida …
other title: Un film parlato / Um Filme Falado …
A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean. On board and on day trips in Marseilles, Pompeii, Athens, Istanbul, and Cairo, a professor tells her young daughter about myth, history, religion, and wars. Men approach her; she's cool, on her way to her husband in Bombay. After Cairo, for two evenings divided by a stop in Aden, the captain charms three successful, famous (and childless) women, who talk with wit and intellect, each understanding the others' native tongue, a European union. The captain asks mother and child to join them. He gives the girl a gift. Helena sings. Life can be sweet.
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The Last Dive (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
O Último Mergulho
director: João César Monteiro actor: Fabienne Babe / Canto e Castro …
other title: O Último Mergulho / Le Dernier Plongeon
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, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon—and is also Eloi’s daughter.
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Fado, Major and Minor (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fado majeur et mineur
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-Luc Bideau / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Fado majeur et mineur
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
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That Day (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ce jour-là
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Bernard Giraudeau / Elsa Zylberstein …
other title: Quel giorno / Ce jour-là
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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Time Regained (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Le Temps retrouvé
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Catherine Deneuve / Emmanuelle Béart …
other title: Il tempo ritrovato / Die wiedergefundene Zeit …
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.
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The Blue Room (2014) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La chambre bleue
director: Mathieu Amalric actor: Mathieu Amalric / Léa Drucker …
other title: La camera azzurra / O Quarto Azul …
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 a crime?
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Treasure Island (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
L'Île au trésor
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Vic Tayback / Martin Landau …
other title: L'Île au trésor / La isla del tesoro …
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
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Cheaters (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tricheurs
director: Barbet Schroeder actor: Jacques Dutronc / Bulle Ogier …
other title: Die Spieler / Tricheurs
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
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Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trois vies et une seule mort
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Anna Galiena …
other title: Tre vite e una sola morte / Drei Leben und ein Tod …
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.
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo
director: 曼努埃尔·德·奥利维拉 actor: Marcello Mastroianni / 让-伊夫·艾斯科菲尔 …
other title: 世界源头之旅 / Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo …
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France and in process remembers his own youth.
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Lisbon Story (1994) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Lisbon Story
director: Wim Wenders actor: 吕迪格·福格勒 / 帕特里克·波查 …
other title: 里斯本的故事 / Lisbon Story - Viagem a Lisboa …
Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.