João Lagarto Movies

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to...

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social turmoil when Portugal changed from a monarchy...

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing...

A courtroom. A divorce. A drama told in flashback. In a courtroom story, the viewer will witness the divorce of Clemente and Emília, in which...

Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a...

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a...

The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, the richest man in town, to raise her. But...

Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas...

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and...

Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the fascist dictator who reigned the longest time in the world, falls from a chair and suffers a stroke. When he returns to...

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...

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.

Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and...

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys"...

A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back...

Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?

"The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follows the daily lives of several people...

A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates...