João Lagarto Movies

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

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

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,...

Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley.

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

Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the...

To celebrate the end of another college year, three friends decide to have an adventurous night of summer. But things don't go according to plan.

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...

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

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

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...

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman...

Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanatti) goes to have dinner with her daughter...

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

Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation...