João Lagarto Movies

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China,...

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a corruption network in the Portuguese football world.

João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. They are like a toy to him, till the day he...

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and...

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric...

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...

The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he...

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

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

The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when still a Spanish colony. Eça de...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a...

Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the longest-serving fascist dictator, falls from his chair and suffers a stroke. Returning to his Palace to recover from...

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...

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what...