Pedro Varela (Writer)

Quarta Divisão

The film tells the story of Martin, a child of nine years, who one day disappears from private school where he studied. Police mounted a major search operation across the city to find him. All hypotheses are possible: What happened?

Release Date2013-02-28

Charactersd Pereira

Vote Count6

20.13: Purgatory

Mozambique, 1969. What was meant to be a peaceful Christmas Eve ends up badly as a group of soldiers brings home a prisoner that will be murdered. Simultaneously, the Capitan's wife arrives in surprise, bringing along a Priest, who is supposed to celebrate the mass.

Release Date2006-12-21

Charactersd Viegas

Vote Count5

Vidas de Sal

Release Date1996-09-30

Charactersd Luís

Episode Count150

Jaime

A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he sets out to get enough money to buy his father a new one.

Release Date1999-03-14

Charactersd Filipe

Vote Count28

Call Girl

A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving him open to blackmail if he won't give the entrepreneur what he wants. Maria has no trouble twisting Meireles around her finger, but police detectives Madeira and Neves get wind of the plan and set out to expose the plot...

Release Date2007-12-27

Charactersd Hospital Nurse

Vote Count23

Esquadra de Polícia

Release Date1999-09-13

Charactersd Biscoito

Episode Count26

Conexão

The border between the North of Portugal and Galicia is the biggest drug entry point in Europe. History not only reflects the reality of clans but also engages in social implications.

Release Date2011-03-19

Charactersd Andres Martinez

Episode Count2

The Seven Sorrows of Mary

A 21 year old American exchange student is about to finish up her year abroad in Brazil. While out for a night on the town with her boyfriend Gabriel, they are both kidnapped. Gabriel is repeatedly beaten while Mary is raped by her captors during a six-hour abduction nightmare. After she gets away Mary is forced to choose between seizing a chance at freedom and letting Gabriel be killed, or returning to her brutal attackers.

Release Date2024-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Alguém Como Eu

Helen, 30 years-old, decides she is going to change the rest of her life. Her biggest mistake, she asks God for some precious help.

Release Date2017-10-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count21

Anestesia

Timoteo (Jerome) has something in his body that he desperately wants to remove. He researches endless medical manuals on how to perform surgery on his own body, but for that, he also needs a guinea pig. There is no better subject for Timoteo than women who anonymously risk their lives at night for a little money and are physically weaker from the start, who will not put up a fight. Until the day Amanda (Correia) comes into his life and he finally gets what he is looking for.

Release Date2010-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Os Filhos do Rock

A series about the phenomenon of rock and roll in Portugal during the 1980's.

Release Date2013-12-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

The Courtyard of the Ballads

A New age remake of a portguese classic, Pátio das Cantigas shows the lives of a neighbourhood in the Old Lisbon, including their desires, happiness and sadness, always with a good humour.

Release Date2015-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count25

Santiago

Release Date2022-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Mrs. Hope

Mrs. Hope is a charismatic octogenarian widow, living alone in a pleasant apartment in Lisbon along with her cat Baltazar, since her husband died, years ago. Mrs. Hope is not like some other older people. She likes ballroom dancing, aqua aerobics sports and from time to time visiting the neighborhood chapel to say goodbye to her old fellows who passed away letting escape some less orthodox comments that make laugh even the most serious. She had two sons, but only one is alive - Artur. He is married with Leonor and together they have a son Rodrigo, a wild teenager and the only Mrs. Hope grandson. Herminia is her best friend, but her truly fellow is Paulina, a bold Angolan woman, mother of the teenager Joyce that Mrs. Hope considers as her goddaughter.

Release Date2020-12-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

O Dez

A Portuguese horror and fantasy anthology.

Release Date2010-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Azul

A year has passed since the last sighting of a whale on the entire planet. Olivia, a determined 18-year-old girl with trisomy 21, daughter of a famous biologist, joins a group of environmental activists in Azores and embarks on a mission to bring the whales back.

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

A Song of Lisbon

How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and picking up girls but he has just failed his final exam! And in that same day, he receives an email from the two aunts announcing their visit to Lisbon! Will he be able to make them believe he is such a good student as they think?

Release Date2016-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

O Ídolo

Release Date2021-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Um Sarilho Chamado Marina

Release Date1998-12-02

Episode Count52