João Lagarto Movies

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

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

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...

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the...

After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.

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

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...

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begins in colonial Mozambique on new year's eve at...

David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only meet through the Polaroid pictures he takes of them.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.

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...

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

Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the fascist dictator who reigned the longest time in the world, falls from a chair and suffers a stroke. When he returns to...

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.

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