João Lagarto Movies

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the...

At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits w...

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

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

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 195...

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....

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

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the liberals, led by his brother D. Pedro. In 1834 D. Miguel...

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 caf...

After the death of his mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and dang...

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...

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and th...

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards t...

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 meets An...

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

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going to forever change a couple's life? After dividing a...

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

Egas Moniz biography, the only portuguese Nobel Prize in Medicine