Paulo Rocha Movies

Local people of Curalha, a small village, keep a tradition of representing the Passion of Jesus, according to a 16th century text.

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together...

Arriving in a hotel in the city of Faro, a couple learns there are no available tables left. When another couple agrees to share a table, they spark...

The night of the summer solstice. Fireworks resound between the two banks of the river like a bombardment. On the water, boats appear and disappear....

Each day, Man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn's...

Situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain, which protected it from the cold offshore winds of winter, and between the rivers Man and Eido, which...

A documentary about a family of goat herders in Portugal and the relationship between man and animals.

A representation of fiction and documentary about the museum of Óbidos, Portugal.

The way in which we cross, one time only, the space of a public swimming pool reminds us of life, from birth until the end.

Paulo Rocha catches up with his “beloved subject” in Porto, where he made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1929, and where today Oliveira...

Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region, young Portuguese modern poet Antonio Reis, Corsican...

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the enigmatic life of Wenceslau de Moraes (1855-1929), the...

A play directed by Silvina Pereira and filmed by Paulo Rocha.

Short film on the creation of an agricultural cooperative in the village of Sever do Vouga.