Manuel Pureza (Directing)

Os Infanticidas

Release Date: 2025-03-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Sempre

Half a century of dictatorship came to an end on April 25, 1974. The main protagonists, and the unfolding of events, are duly and meticulously portrayed. But hundreds, perhaps thousands of episodes of tension and fear, courage and adrenaline, pain and loss, fury and dreams were experienced by anonymous citizens during the intense hours that changed the country.

Release Date: 2024-06-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Sunset: The Mystery of the Necklace of São Cajó

Follows the Bourbon de Linhaça family and their precious Necklace of São Cajó, that's been in the family for over 3500 years and hides secrets, curses and a mythical cod recipe.

Release Date: 2023-08-03

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 4

Marco Paulo

Release Date: 2023-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 3

Além do Sol Posto

Release Date: 2022-09-05

Pôr do Sol

Love, passion, mystery, betrayal makes the days of the Pôr do Sol estate. The Bourbon de Linhaça family owns the Pôr do Sol estate, but not everything is rosy...

Release Date: 2021-08-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 36

Vote Count: 11

Until Life Do Us Part

Three generations of a family living together in an idyllic villa juggle the demands of their wedding planning business and their own personal crises.

Release Date: 2021-02-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 11

The Sound that Goes Down to Earth

Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.

Release Date: 2020-09-17

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 6

The Inability of Being Alone

Alice is 20 years old and has been living in confinement since she was born, when she was diagnosed with a severe combined immunodeficient disease. Her immune system is very weak, so the only solution to keep herself alive is to be in a safe and protected environment: her home. Fred (20) is his best and only friend and it is through her that Alice lives.

Release Date: 2020-05-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1

Faithful

A priest receives a call from God

Release Date: 2020-05-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Desliga a Televisão

Release Date: 2019-09-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 1

Prisioneira

Release Date: 2019-05-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 219

Blood Lines

Threatened by a fascist plot, the Portuguese government recruits several "special people" to stop the coup.

Release Date: 2018-07-26

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2

Kieza

Father and son are in a long journey to the city. The road they are on is not on any map. It doesn't end.

Release Date: 2016-05-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Will for Revenge

Release Date: 2015-05-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 296

New Beginning

Álvaro and Maria do Carmo lived happily in Angola. He was a successful businessman and she was a mild mannered housewife. They have two children together, Ana and João, who were studying and living their teenage years in Luanda... Until the day the civil war broke out and everything fell apart. Amidst declarations of independence, a wave of violence breaks out and the established peace and order fades away. In July, 1975, the Mendonça family, along with over five hundred thousand people, leave their belongings behind and embark on an air convoy that would become the biggest exodus in the history of the Portuguese people to a homeland that most only knew from photos and dubbed it Metropolis. In Lisbon, Joaquim and Natália, Álvaro’s brother-in-law and sister, take the Mendonça family in their small apartment, where they will try to get their lives back in order. However, over that hot summer of 1975, the integration seemed to be far from easy.

Release Date: 2013-01-19

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Bewitched

She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Finally, she decides to bake some special cookies.

Release Date: 2012-07-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Mata's Family

A family by force... Paulo and Susana have been together for a few years now and decide to take the next step in their relationship by moving in together. But, as they're signing the deed to the house, her father, who was supposed to bring the check, ends up delivering the bad news that there is no money for the house, thus ending this young couple’s dream. However, Artur doesn’t want to come off as a bad parent, so he offers his attic to them so that they can start their life together. So, Paulo’s dream turns into an absolute nightmare, as their life as a couple is, in fact, shared with seven other people who are all very different from them and will start controlling their every move in a permanently tense environment. The Mata family, as it turns out, is all insane, the only exception being Susana. And even her will have a hard time convincing the rest of the family to accept and welcome their new member.

Release Date: 2011-03-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 80

Widow and Rich No Longer a Bitch

Ana Catarina returns from Brazil with her father and her nanny to marry a man she doesn't know and doesn't like. A terrible coincidence happens when, on the same day, the young woman becomes a widow and an orphan, a fact that leaves her heir to an incalculable fortune and coveted by all the aristocrats in the region.

Release Date: 2006-11-16

Vote Count: 8

The Summer of Rita M.

One week before the university entrance exam João has given up. Rita, his girlfriend and a straight-A surfer girl, is determined not only to make him study, but to make him pass the exam and get him into college. The problems arise when she fails to get into college herself while she is helping him. What will she discover about their relationship?

Release Date: 2006-05-01

Department: Crew

Job: Cinematography