João Lagarto Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

A courtroom. A divorce. A drama told in flashback. In a courtroom story, the viewer will witness the divorce of Clemente and Emília, in which...

"The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follows the daily lives of several people...

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....

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is...

A boy lives with his mother and younger sister. One day, his mother disappears with her lover, leaving the two children alone. António, the...