João Lagarto Movies

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that...

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

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...

An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a...

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

A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause. In the middle of the crowd inquisitive eyes of the...

In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will be installed. With the ecological balance...

The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical...

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

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

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...

Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão.

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...

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

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to the colonial war in Africa on their wedding day....

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

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

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

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...