Screenplay: Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Joao Pedro Rodrigues. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


To Die Like a Man

2009 · Movie · 133 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Fernando Santos · Alexander David · Gonçalo Ferreira De Almeida · Fernando Gomes

Plot A transvestite tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. She dies tragically before this is accomplished and her male identity is engraved on her headstone.

6.5

276 votes

6.5

276 votes

The Ornithologist

2016 · Movie · 118 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Paul Hamy · Xelo Cagiao · Joao Pedro Rodrigues · Han Wen

Plot Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for black storks when he is swept away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of Chinese pilgrims, he plunges into an eerie and...

6.5

777 votes

6.5

777 votes

As the Flames Rose (S)

2012 · Movie · 25 min. · Portugal

Direction João Rui Guerra da Mata

Cast Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Plot At dawn on August 25th, 1988, Portugal wakes up with the largest fire ever since the Great Earthquake of 1755. In Lisbon, Chiado district burns. Across the city, away from...

6.3

24 votes

6.3

24 votes

Will-o’-the-Wisp

2022 · Movie · 67 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Mauro Costa · André Cabral · Joel Branco · Anabela Moreira

Plot 2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.

6.2

453 votes

6.2

453 votes

The Last Time I Saw Macao

2012 · Documentary · 82 min. · Portugal

Direction João Rui Guerra da Mata · Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Lydie Barbara · João Rui Guerra da Mata · Joao Pedro Rodrigues · Cindy Scrash

Plot Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in...

6.2

211 votes

6.2

211 votes

Morning of Saint Anthony’s Day (S)

2012 · Movie · 25 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Joana Areal · Lydie Barbara · Carlos Conceição · Alexander David

Plot Tradition says that on June 13th, Saint Anthony’s Day – Lisbon’s patron -, lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular quatrains as a...

6.1

61 votes

6.1

61 votes

Iec Long

2015 · Documentary · 32 min. · Portugal

Direction João Rui Guerra da Mata · Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Teng Man Cheang

Plot The latest short film from João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata is a dreamy, experimental look at a deactivated fireworks factory in Macao.

6.1

33 votes

6.1

33 votes

The King's Body

2013 · Documentary · 32 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Daniel Redondo Martinéz · Gumersindo Soto Souto · Bruno Rodriguez Hernandez · Carlos Parga Méndez

Plot How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

6.0

42 votes

6.0

42 votes

Red Dawn

2011 · Documentary · 29 min. · Portugal

5.9

64 votes

5.9

64 votes

China, China (S)

2007 · Movie · 20 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues · João Rui Guerra da Mata

Cast Jialiang Chen · Luís Rafael Chen · Chen Jie

Plot China walks towards the Lisbon district of Martim Moniz. In its wake, the children shout: China! China! China will leave at dawn, will fly away. Just wants to be happy....

5.9

40 votes

5.9

40 votes

Two Drifters

2005 · Movie · 101 min. · Portugal

5.8

179 votes

5.8

179 votes

Phantom

2000 · Movie · 91 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Ricardo Meneses · Beatriz Torcato · Andre Barbosa · Eurico Vieira

Plot Young and handsome Sergio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon, Portugal. He can't force himself to connect with his pretty female co-worker Fatima, who displays an...

5.6

382 votes

5.6

382 votes

Parabéns! (S)

1997 · Movie · 14 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast João Rui Guerra da Mata · Eduardo Sobral

Plot Chico wakes up on his 30th birthday to the sound of his girlfriend singing "Happy Birthday" to him on his answering machine. When sexy boy Joao wakes up in bed...

5.0

26 votes

5.0

26 votes

Mahjong

2013 · Movie · 35 min. · Portugal

Direction João Rui Guerra da Mata · Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast João Rui Guerra da Mata · Anne Pham · Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Plot Varziela, Vila do Conde, the biggest Chinatown in Portugal. A man wearing a hat and a missing woman. A high-heeled shoe, a blond wig and a Chinese dress. The confrontation...

4.5

30 votes

4.5

30 votes

Esta É a Minha Casa

1997 · Documentary · 50 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Léa Felix do Fundo · Johnny Felix do Fundo · Justina Rosa Barreira · Manuel Bernardo Feles

Plot João Pedro Rodrigues films the holiday journey of an emigrant family from Paris to their homeland in Trás-os-Montes. Footage from the couple's daily life in Paris - he is a...

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A Room in Town (S)

2021 · Documentary · 5 min. · Portugal

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O Pastor (S)

1988 · Movie · 17 min. · Portugal

Direction Joao Pedro Rodrigues

Cast Casimiro Oleiro · Joaquim Rato

Plot Formally assured, and consisting mostly of long shots, it tells the story of a shepherd who, at the age of 65, is forced to retire.

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