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...

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.

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...

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...

"Until life separates us" tells the story of Raquel, a 42-year-old woman who engages Henry, an 18-year-old boy who is the son of her husband's boss....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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...