João Lagarto Movies

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...

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is...

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years...

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D....

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

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...

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

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