João Lagarto Movies

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

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

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...

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

"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...

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing....

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

Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.

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

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

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

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...

A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause. In the middle of the crowd inquisitive eyes of the...

At gunpoint, a plastic surgeon must operate on a criminal to escape the police. But when the criminal returns for treatment, the doctor plans to take...

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

Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and...

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...