Paulo Rocha

Born: 1935-12-22

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


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Francisca

as Doctor
Released: 1981-12-03

The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love...

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Island of Loves

as Camilo Pessanha
Released: 1982-06-08

This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of...

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On the Edge of the Horizon

as uncredited
Released: 1993-11-24

Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30...

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The Satin Slipper

as Premier Prête
Released: 1986-01-08

During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don...

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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

as uncredited
Released: 2013-09-10

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...

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Passagem ou a Meio Caminho

as uncredited
Released: 1986-02-25

Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that...

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Three Less Me

as The Melomaniac
Released: 1988-02-19

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom...

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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista

as uncredited
Released: 1994-12-31

The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The...

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The Sound of the Shaking Earth

as Hostel Doorman
Released: 1990-10-22

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who...

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A Ilha de Moraes

as Self
Released: 1984-09-10

This film, made as a "twin" of A ilha dos amores, was planned as a poetic documentary on the...

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Around Rocha’s Table

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-08-08

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find,...

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