João Lagarto Movies

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

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

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

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father...

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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....

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