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Known ForProduction

GenderMale

Birth DateJun 3, 1950 (76 years old)

Zodiac Sign♊Gemini

Place of BirthLisbon, Portugal

Career Span1976 – Present (51 yrs)

Known Credits270 Titles

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ProductionPopularity Score 0.7

Paulo Branco

Also known as: Paolo Branco

Total Works

270

265 movies • 5 shows

Avg Rating

6.1 / 10

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Biography

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 Official Selection - and brought 48 films to the Venice Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulo Branco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Top-rated highlights from Paulo Branco's career

7.8

1900

1976•movie

as Orso Dalcò

7.2

The Captain

2018•movie

Role: Co-Producer

7.8

Werckmeister Harmonies

2001•movie

Role: Thanks

6.9

Love Songs

2007•movie

Role: Producer

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Showing 270 titles featuring Paulo Branco

5.7

Cosmopolis

2012•movie

Role: Producer

7.8

1900

1976•movie

as Orso Dalcò

7.2

The Captain

2018•movie

Role: Co-Producer

7.8

Werckmeister Harmonies

2001•movie

Role: Thanks

6.9

Love Songs

2007•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Until the End of the World

1991•movie

Role: Executive Producer

4.5

Ma mère

2004•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Blue Room

2014•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Lisbon Story

1994•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Maine-Ocean Express

1986•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

In Paris

2006•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Cosmos

2015•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

The State of Things

1982•movie

Role: Associate Producer

3.3

Monster Shark

1984•movie

as Miller

5.1

Klimt

2006•movie

Role: Co-Producer

5.7

The Captive

2000•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Time Regained

1999•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.9

Fidelity

2000•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

I Am Dina

2002•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

L'ennui

1998•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

A Talking Picture

2003•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

City of Pirates

1984•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.8

Ossos

1997•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Three Lives and Only One Death

1996•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Lines of Wellington

2012•movie

Role: Producer

7.4

Abraham's Valley

1993•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

I’m Going Home

2001•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

In the White City

1983•movie

as Man at Train Station (uncredited)

7.0

Three Crowns of the Sailor

1991•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.5

Astragal

2015•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

The New Eve

1999•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Our Paradise

2011•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Four Nights with Anna

2008•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Francisca

1981•movie

Role: Executive Producer

7.2

Alice

2005•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

The House

1997•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Genealogies of a Crime

1997•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Blood Curse

2006•movie

as Godofredo Monteiro

4.6

The Last Day

2004•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

A Few Days in September

2006•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Sunbeat

2017•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

It's Easier for a Camel...

2003•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Few of Us

1996•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Changing Times

2004•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

The Education of Fairies

2006•movie

Role: Co-Producer

5.3

The Convent

1995•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

No, or the Vain Glory of Command

1990•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Very Well, Thank You

2007•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Casa de Lava

1995•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Mosquito

2020•movie

Role: Producer

4.4

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez

2016•movie

Role: Producer

5.0

Cheaters

1984•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.9

Tomorrow We Move

2004•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Trance

2006•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

The Spousals of God

1999•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

The Black Book

2018•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Domain

2019•movie

Role: Producer

4.5

This Is My Body

2001•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Rose King

1986•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Remains of the Wind

2022•movie

Role: Producer

3.9

Never Ever

2016•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Cannibals

1988•movie

Role: Producer

7.8

Freedom

2000•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

The Divine Comedy

1991•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

One of a Kind

2013•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Porto of My Childhood

2001•movie

Role: Producer

4.5

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

2007•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

1997•movie

Role: Producer

7.4

Come and Go

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

In the Darkness of the Night

2004•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

This Night

2009•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

That Day

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

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

2018•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.9

Silvestre

1982•movie

Role: Executive Producer

7.0

The Last Dive

1992•movie

Role: Producer

7.6

Fragile as the World

2001•movie

Role: Producer

4.0

Stalin's Couch

2016•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Letter

1999•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

A Flame in My Heart

1987•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Seven Invisible Men

2005•movie

Role: Producer

4.4

The Galíndez File

2003•movie

Role: Co-Producer

5.3

Casanova Variations

2014•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Trás-os-Montes

1976•movie

Role: Associate Producer

6.5

Party

1996•movie

Role: Producer

4.5

The Three-way Wedding

2010•movie

Role: Producer

7.6

Requiem

1998•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Just for Laughs

1997•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Blind Man's Bluff

1994•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Wimbledon Stage

2002•movie

Role: Producer

7.8

Love Torn in a Dream

2000•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Deux

2002•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Moral Order

2020•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Mysteries of Lisbon

2011•series

Role: Producer

7.2

Manuel on the Island of Wonders

1984•series

Role: Producer

6.0

The Territory

1981•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.6

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

1993•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Winter's Child

1989•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Conversation Is Over

1982•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Traffic

1998•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Word and Utopia

2000•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Doomed Love

2008•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

Black Shoes

1998•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Day of Despair

1992•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

The Man Who Lost His Shadow

1992•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Five Days, Five Nights

1996•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

I Hate Love

1997•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Fallen from Heaven

1990•movie

Role: Producer

4.6

I Could Read the Sky

1999•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.4

Treasure Island

1986•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.8

The Young One

2016•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

Ordo

2004•movie

Role: Producer

7.6

The Satin Slipper

1986•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Forget Everything I Told You

2002•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Flowers of Blood

2002•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

The Woman from Rose Hill

1989•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

O Delfim

2002•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Tarde Demais

2000•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Madregilda

1993•movie

Role: Associate Producer

3.8

The Fatalist

2005•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Uncertainty Principle

2002•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

An Outpost of Progress

2016•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch

2006•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Inquietude

1998•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Ana

1982•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.9

Doc's Kingdom

1988•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.7

Treasure of the Bitch Islands

1990•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Crooked Lines

2019•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Fado, Major and Minor

1995•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé

2006•movie

Role: Executive Producer

4.4

98 Octanas

2006•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

Death's Glamour

2007•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Fifth Empire

2004•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Fool Moon

2016•movie

Role: Producer

7.3

Manoel’s Destinies

1984•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Snow White

2000•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Torre Bela

1977•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.4

Faubourg St Martin

1986•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Englishman's Papers

2024•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

My Case

1986•movie

Role: Producer

7.3

Get a Life

2001•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

The Miracle According to Salomé

2004•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Ruth

2018•movie

Role: Producer

4.7

The Bathers

2003•movie

Role: Producer

7.4

Far from Manhattan

1982•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

No Sex Last Night

1996•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Diary of a Seducer

1996•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

The Phantom Heart

1996•movie

Role: Producer

4.3

The Other Side

2007•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Ashes and Blood

2009•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Body Rice

2006•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Entre os Dedos

2008•movie

Role: Producer

7.8

Agosto

1988•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Rending

2001•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Lent

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The King's Trial

1990•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Moonfish

2000•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The End of the World

1993•movie

Role: Producer

2.5

Wild

2019•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

A Mulher que Acreditava Ser Presidente dos EUA

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Terrible Lovers

1985•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

No One Twice

1985•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.4

Chameleon

1996•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Vanishing Point

1984•movie

6.9

Les petites couleurs

2002•movie

Role: Producer

4.4

The Child

2022•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Operation Autumn

2012•movie

Role: Producer

3.4

Em Câmara Lenta

2012•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

A Passagem da Noite

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Mimi

2003•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.7

The Sibyl

2023•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

The Worst Man in London

2024•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

The Fascination

2003•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Outside

2004•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Water and Salt

2001•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Longe da Vista

1999•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Three Palm Trees

1994•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

No Dia dos Meus Anos

1992•movie

Role: Producer

4.6

Shipwrecked on Route D17

2002•movie

Role: Producer

4.6

Veneno Cura

2008•movie

Role: Producer

8.2

Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)

1979•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Guardian of the Night

1986•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

The Stranger From Strasbourg

1998•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Black Beach

2001•movie

Role: Executive Producer

4.0

Alors voilà,

1997•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.6

O Capacete Dourado

2007•movie

Role: Producer

3.8

Les Infortunes de la beauté

1999•movie

as Le gardien

5.8

Passion

2012•movie

Role: Producer

4.5

Oxalá

1981•movie

Role: Producer

4.2

At an Uncertain Time

2015•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Saltimbank

2003•movie

Role: Producer

4.1

Km 224

2022•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Andre Valente

2004•movie

Role: Producer

3.2

Dying or Feeling Better

2008•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

A Falha

2002•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Nights

2000•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The Eyes of Asia

1997•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Misbegotten

2007•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Bazar

2009•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Em Volta

2002•movie

Role: Producer

8.5

Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)

1979•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Mientras haya luz

1987•movie

Role: Producer

4.2

Villa Mauresque

1993•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Absence

1993•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Doomed Love

1978•series

Role: Producer

5.0

Photo

2012•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Obsessive Rhythms

2014•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

All the Dreams in the World

2017•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Lovely Child

1990•movie

Role: Producer

3.3

From Now On

2008•movie

Role: Producer

7.3

Three Bridges on the River

1999•movie

Role: Producer

8.3

Twin Flames

1992•movie

Role: Producer

3.7

Transatlantique

1997•movie

Role: Producer

4.0

2003•movie

Role: Producer

3.0

Alex

2005•movie

Role: Producer

7.5

Three Less Me

1988•movie

1.5

2010•movie

5.5

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

2011•movie

7.0

3 eps

Alentejo Sem Lei

1991•series

as Preto

1.0

Lobos

2007•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Off the Beaten Track

2025•movie

Role: Producer

4.0

Dialogues After the End

2023•movie

Role: Producer

4.0

És a Nossa Fé

2004•movie

Role: Producer

2.0

Eyes Find Eyes

2011•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Twist of Fate

2009•movie

Role: Producer

7.5

A Estrangeira

1982•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Insomniac on the Bridge

1985•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Beggars

1988•movie

Role: Associate Producer

8.5

Border Line

1992•movie

Role: Producer

4.5

Mil e Uma

1996•movie

Role: Producer

5.0

L'étrangère

2007•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

In Search of the Equator

1989•movie

as António

8.0

Lives

1984•movie

as Carlos

8.0

1 eps

Zona+

1994•series

as Próprio

6.0

Suzanne

2007•movie

Role: Executive Producer

5.0

Armpits

2016•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

Lavado em Lágrimas

2006•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Aspern

1982•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Eden miseria

1990•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Far Away from Here

1994•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

Un paraguas para tres

1992•movie

Role: Associate Producer

9.0

Porto Santo

1997•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Islands' Message

1989•movie

Role: Producer

10.0

Lila Lili

1999•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Midnight Exam

1998•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

On a très peu d'amis

1998•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

Crystal Book

1994•movie

Role: Executive Producer

8.0

Cinerama

2010•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Só Por Acaso

2003•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Private Life

2007•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Rádio Relâmpago

2003•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

Après la pluie, le beau temps

2003•movie

Role: Producer

10.0

Orlando Vargas

2005•movie

Role: Producer

9.0

Comic Act

1998•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Vive nous!

2000•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Imago

2001•movie

Role: Producer

In a Memory of a Film Gone By

1998•movie

as himself

An Indian in War - Life and Work of António-Pedro Vasconcelos

2019•movie

as Self

Two, Three Times Branco

2018•movie

as Himself

Films to Die For

2025•movie

as Self - Interviewee

O senso dos desatinados

2006•movie

Role: Producer

Dubaï Flamingo

2012•movie

Role: Producer

O Jogo

2010•movie

Role: Producer

Night Shift

2017•movie

Role: Producer

Memories of Prison

2026•movie

Role: Producer

Lavagante

2025•movie

Role: Producer

The Massacre of Gilles de Rais

2026•movie

Role: Producer

Aquí

2027•movie

Role: Producer

The Boatman

2026•movie

Role: Producer

A Conquista da Europa

2011•movie

Role: Editor