Francisca
1981
star 7.0
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fata...
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Paulo Rocha
Paulo Rocha was born on December 22, 1935 in Porto, Portugal. He was a director and producer, known for A Ilha dos Amores (1982), O Rio do Ouro (1998) and A Raiz do Coração(2000). He died on December 29, 2012 in Porto.
Abandoned Lisbon Law School to dedicate himself to the movies, and founded Cine-Clube de Lisboa (CCC) with Nuno de Bragança, João Bénard da Costa, Pedro Tamen and Alberto Vaz da Silva. In 1962, concluded his studies at IDHEC, Paris, France, but he says he learned more watching time and again Jean Renoir and 'Kenzo Mizoguchi' films than in academic film studies
Filmography
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The Satin Slipper
1986
star 7.3
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is for...
História do Cinema Português
2001
The Life of Mirrors
2025
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A...
On the Edge of the Horizon
1993
star 5.6
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
2013
star 5.4
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the countr...
Island of Loves
1982
star 6.5
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient b...
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
1986
star 7.0
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first t...
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
1994
star 6.5
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of th...
Around Rocha’s Table
2021
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his persona...
Three Less Me
1988
star 7.5
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her se...
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
1990
star 6.9
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote any...
A Ilha de Moraes
1984
star 5.2
This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of...
Encontros
2006
Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region, young Portuguese modern...