João Lagarto

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

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

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 ...

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to ...

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

George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a personal tragedy forces her to embark on a ...

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.

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

“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 ...

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, ...

The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.

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.

A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O Crime do Padre Amaro (“The Crime of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 ...

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. ...

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these “old ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of ...

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet village of the north. But Father António is ...