The best Pedro Efe’s movies

Pedro Efe

Pedro Efe

07/11/1942 (81 años)
Today we present the best Pedro Efe’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Pedro Efe’s movies.
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The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1993
  • Character: Interrogation Officer
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

According to Pereira

According to Pereira
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1995
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the "Lisboa," an unaffiliated evening paper. There is a civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power in Portugal, but he concerns himself only with his work – writing biographies of famous writers and translating French novels – and ignores what is going on around him. He hires Monteiro Rossi, an idealistic young man in love with a beautiful communist, as an assistant. He reluctantly helps them when they begin to get into trouble due to subversive activities. Eventually, events force him to take a stand.

Captains of April

Captains of April
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 21/04/2000
  • Character: Old Sergeant
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Jaime

Jaime
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/03/1999
  • Character: Mota
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.

In the White City

In the White City
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/02/1983
  • Character: L'ami dans la taverne
A Swiss sailor jumps ship in Lisbon, tired of the noisy engine room, the ship. He rents a room and does little. He writes letters to his lover, describing the whiteness of the city, the solitude and the silence. He sends his love and emptiness; she replies with love and confusion.

Matar Saudades

Matar Saudades
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1988
  • Character: Pedro
Abel, 47 years old, two wars - in the colonies and France, emigration - several scars from many battles lost, returns in a jump to Portugal, to his lost village in the northern interior, near the border, from where one day he'd be gone, also from a jump. A letter, from his brother Peter, warned him that everything changed. Even Teresa. Abel catches sight of his childhood in the village hills, the old tribe. From a distance everything seams to be in the same placesa, the old dog is all that remains of the past. In the village the Act of Passion will be performed and Teresa is one of the participants. Abel takes the old gestures and prepares his plan: eliminate one by one Teresa's suitors, to consummate during the act of the Passion, her death ...

Laços de Sangue

Laços de Sangue
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1992
  • Character: Rapist
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.

The Circle

The Circle
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1970
  • Character: Publicity Agency Worker (uncredited)
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon she encounters financial difficulties and finds herself involved with shady characters, a situation that leads to a mysterious murder. The net closes around her.

The Great Mystical Circus

The Great Mystical Circus
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/11/2018
  • Character: Tarado
The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.

Women

Women
6.5/10
Five women, all in their forties, try to find out what's important for them in life.

Balada da Praia dos Cães

Balada da Praia dos Cães
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 12/03/1987
  • Character: Cpl. Barroca
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Goodbye Princess

Goodbye Princess
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 01/05/1992
  • Character: Vicente
Mitó lives in a small village and is the son of the local Comunist Party leader, she is 18 years-old and is about to graduate from the high-school she must attend at Beja - the nearest town. News that she killed her German boyfriend, at 4 a.m. on a desert road, do not excite much the editor of a Lisbon newspaper. He sends in a tyro reporter, Joaquim Peixoto, just in case. The young man, already considered hopless in his profession, will uncover more than a sex scandal to be used for political purposes. Written by Artemis-9

Operation Autumn

Operation Autumn
6.2/10
A film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination by the Portuguese fascist police in 1965.

4 Hearts

4 Hearts
5.8/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 20/08/2009
  • Character: Alfredo, the Doorman
Diana is a young man about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.

Bad

Bad
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/02/2000
  • Character: Guard
Concerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/06/1982
  • Character: Georg, der Knecht

The Jew

The Jew
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/01/1996
  • Character: Warden
The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to avoid Inquisition by converting himself to Catholicism, after being tortured. But his fierce criticism of Portugal's élite led him to persecution and torture, becoming kind of a scapegoat.

The Mystery of Sintra

The Mystery of Sintra
6.8/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 03/05/2007
  • Character: Cocheiro
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it be that the story they wrote as fiction is based on a real case? This question fuels the conflict between the two writers and drives them to a nearly fatal duel. Lisbon is in commotion. One crime follows another in a story in which love is stronger than tradition. Everything happens at frenzied pace, as in a game.

A Noiva

A Noiva
5.5/10
A portuguese officer, supposedly dead in a mine explosion, is captured by the african guerrilla in Guiné (former portuguese colony) while his beloved wife Laura remain inconsolable in Portugal trying to believe that Jorge is still alive. Meanwhile an old Laura friend, a lieutenant, tries to convince Laura that Jorge is dead. Eduardo has always been a secret Laura lover. The romance between them is however darkened with the phantom shadow of Jorge hanging over them..

Land of Storms

Land of Storms
6.3/10
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at 1957 gives way to 1958. Ningo, a black boy brought up by Lena's parents, and her childhood friend, comes to Lisbon to help find her, at the request of Lena's mother. Using the letters that Lena has left behind as a testament to her life, in wich she has rebelled against the challenged the powers that be, Ningo discovers the identity of her kidnapper - Jorge Matos - a former secret policeman who has followed her from Lourenço Marques, motivated by morbid desire. Lena's kidnapper dies from two inexplicable snake bites to the neck, in accordance with a legend and ritual that had been part of Lena and Ningo's childhood.

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