João Lagarto Movies

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...

A theatre having national as part of its name, at the top of a square, reflecting a country’s history. But which one? This is a voyage through...

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present...

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

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...

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are...

David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.

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