![Paulo Rocha](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/f66nPzkfoflzmeJBekpgBiyJP8I.jpg)
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
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.913 |
Birthday | 1935-12-22 |
Place of Birth | Porto, Portugal |
Also Known As |
![Francisca](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yAaypfPeJPLHihpNBecmhnLrBm.jpg)
1981
![Francisca](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yAaypfPeJPLHihpNBecmhnLrBm.jpg)
Francisca
7.519/26
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
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Francisca
![If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/v63V4TnbjMvT01K6uM3VwTVB8So.jpg)
2013
![If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/v63V4TnbjMvT01K6uM3VwTVB8So.jpg)
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
4.5/4
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the brother...
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![Encontros](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
2006
![Encontros](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
Encontros
0/0
Mesmerized by the songs of Peroguarda villagers in southern Portugal’s Alentejo region, young Portuguese modern poet Antonio Reis, Corsican researcher...
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Encontros
![The Satin Slipper](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ocIsnWtl9TcJ8qFWUfxw4oxSENK.jpg)
1985
![The Satin Slipper](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ocIsnWtl9TcJ8qFWUfxw4oxSENK.jpg)
The Satin Slipper
7.3/7
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The Satin Slipper
![Island of Loves](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9qZxQx6uKqqhkelyBPC9VjfYuBp.jpg)
1982
![Island of Loves](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9qZxQx6uKqqhkelyBPC9VjfYuBp.jpg)
Island of Loves
6.4/7
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a...
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Island of Loves
![Three Less Me](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2HA8UtxLJrARtW5i9CtGgU8EYeN.jpg)
1988
![Three Less Me](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2HA8UtxLJrARtW5i9CtGgU8EYeN.jpg)
Three Less Me
0/0
A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from...
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Three Less Me
![On the Edge of the Horizon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kPIgcpw189ytEDaSf4N1uEr6LlJ.jpg)
1993
![On the Edge of the Horizon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kPIgcpw189ytEDaSf4N1uEr6LlJ.jpg)
On the Edge of the Horizon
5.4/7
Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
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On the Edge of the Horizon
![The Sound of the Shaking Earth](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2PhkyNTJBbsyDH17QStLQhZBovH.jpg)
1990
![The Sound of the Shaking Earth](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2PhkyNTJBbsyDH17QStLQhZBovH.jpg)
The Sound of the Shaking Earth
6.2/4
Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the br...
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![Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1M5TvWM5obLuZQDSqqc7FojyBhJ.jpg)
1994
![Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1M5TvWM5obLuZQDSqqc7FojyBhJ.jpg)
Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
6.5/2
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revoluti...
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![Passagem ou a Meio Caminho](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/c9TwtECqD9eDEWfGesyrQNCteau.jpg)
1986
![Passagem ou a Meio Caminho](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/c9TwtECqD9eDEWfGesyrQNCteau.jpg)
Passagem ou a Meio Caminho
0/0
Ambulatory history, freely inspired by Georg Büchner's biography (1813-37) and the reasons that led him first to political intervention and then to st...
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![Around Rocha’s Table](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/73cihCmgtaFHC7gZ6JHUSi8bMCz.jpg)
2021
![Around Rocha’s Table](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/73cihCmgtaFHC7gZ6JHUSi8bMCz.jpg)
Around Rocha’s Table
0/0
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key...
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![A Ilha de Moraes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/l0R9M2sDhlHuBgvI2yhb3gZlcWm.jpg)
1984
![A Ilha de Moraes](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/l0R9M2sDhlHuBgvI2yhb3gZlcWm.jpg)
A Ilha de Moraes
5/3
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 gr...
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