João Lagarto
Birthday: 1954-10-05
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Crime of Father Amaro
A young priest commits a crime when he falls in love with a beautiful and troubled woman. Based on O...
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Corruption
A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a cor...
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Morte D'Homem
Entangled in crime since childhood, Zeca Mouro experienced probation, reform school, and jail throug...
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A Shot in the Dark
A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a s...
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Há-de Haver Uma Lei
The story of Luizinha, a girl born into a very poor family who is given by her father to António, th...
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Goodbye, Father
For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father i...
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Applause
A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause. In th...
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My Name Is Bernadette
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Berna...
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Bairro
Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a chi...
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Três Crimes, Três Curtas
S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and “Para Cá do...
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The Fortunate Ones
Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of lif...
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Tentação
Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a quiet v...
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Tudo Isto é Fado
Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties de...
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The Murmuring Coast
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly disc...
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Ordo
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom h...
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The Great Kilapy
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve o...
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L'homme au double visage
At gunpoint, a plastic surgeon must operate on a criminal to escape the police. But when the crimina...
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La rage au cœur
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France....
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Two Dragons
Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanat...
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowne...
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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Profess...
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Sinais de Fogo
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time...
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April Captains
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fa...
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A Falha
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But...
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Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upo...
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The Mystery of Sintra
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodu...
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Até que a vida nos separe
"Until life separates us" tells the story of Raquel, a 42-year-old woman who engages Henry, an 18-ye...
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Histórias Selvagens
An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territor...
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Anjo Caído
A boy lives with his mother and younger sister. One day, his mother disappears with her lover, leavi...
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4 Hearts
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine ...
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A mãe do meu filho
A courtroom. A divorce. A drama told in flashback. In a courtroom story, the viewer will witness the...
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Saramago: Documentos
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on ...
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The End of the World
In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proport...
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Portugal Não Está à Venda
The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minist...
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Kiss Me
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese...
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irr...
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O Último Condenado à Morte
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal....
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The Dead Queen
Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistr...
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No Dia dos Meus Anos
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the sec...
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The tri...
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Querida Mãe
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead....
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522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father
George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a per...
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Jogo de Mão
In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a st...
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Kiss and Cry
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon....
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A Borboleta na Gaiola
"The Butterfly in the Cage" is a novel by Luís Filipe Costa adapted to film by the author, it follow...
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Life Is Beautiful
Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social tur...
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Imagine
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life....
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Um S Marginal
In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will...
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One Foot in the Algarve
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal A...
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Forbidden Images
David envisions an unusual project, he tries to recreate the love between two women that can only me...
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Mosquito
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in ...
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Monsanto
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebra...
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Our Consul in Havana
The film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba, when...
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The Jester
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in...
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Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that wi...
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Fuga
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political po...
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The Garden of Redemption
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied It...
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Lourdes
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears...
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L'Herbe rouge
Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past...
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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoî...
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Cavaleiros De Água Doce
After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he ...
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Land of Storms
Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that begi...
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Maria
Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is taken to...
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?...
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A Ilha dos Escravos
After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the libera...
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Bruno Aleixo's Film
Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask his ...
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Foreign Land
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land a...
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Havanera 1820
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods tha...
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's...
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his...
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Teorema de Pitágoras
João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he should. Th...
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Before the Mountains
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre....
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The Art of Dying Far Away
Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are going t...
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O Último Verão
To celebrate the end of another college year, three friends decide to have an adventurous night of s...
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Daisy and Mona
The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this g...
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Egas’ Ego
Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country fu...
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Dying to Go Home
A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will n...
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The Home Fairy
Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her child...
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Pax
Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important packag...
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Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator
Portugal, 1968. Salazar, the longest-serving fascist dictator, falls from his chair and suffers a st...
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