João Lagarto Movies

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his closest friends for inspiration. Reunited in a...

In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric...

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her...

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...

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...

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

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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..

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

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a child and leads a band of criminals who negotiates...

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

"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...

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...