João Lagarto
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7129 |
| Birthday | 1954-10-05 |
| Place of Birth | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Also Known As |
2005
The Crime of Father Amaro
5.314/43
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 Father Amaro"...
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The Crime of Father Amaro
2007
Corruption
3.7/12
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.
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Corruption
1985
Morte D'Homem
10/1
Entangled in crime since childhood, Zeca Mouro experienced probation, reform school, and jail through expediency and marginality. His life is thus def...
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Morte D'Homem
2005
A Shot in the Dark
5.188/8
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 is fir...
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A Shot in the Dark
2023
Há-de Haver Uma Lei
5.8/2
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 the death...
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Há-de Haver Uma Lei
1996
Goodbye, Father
6.429/14
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 sometimes...
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Goodbye, Father
2023
Applause
0/0
A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause. In the middle of the crowd inquisitive eyes of the Stat...
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Applause
2011
My Name Is Bernadette
7.4/23
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lour...
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My Name Is Bernadette
2013
Bairro
4.5/5
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 fo...
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Bairro
2023
Três Crimes, Três Curtas
0/0
S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and “Para Cá do Marão”, by José Mazeda, are three short films, al...
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Três Crimes, Três Curtas
2024
The Fortunate Ones
5.9/5
Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of life despite a slight mental handicap - divides her l...
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The Fortunate Ones
1997
Tentação
6.938/8
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 also a...
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Tentação
2004
Tudo Isto é Fado
5.143/7
Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their thirties decide to take their fates in hand. Nevertheless, a...
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Tudo Isto é Fado
2004
The Murmuring Coast
5/9
During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly discovers how different and disturbing life is in a co...
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The Murmuring Coast
2004
Ordo
4.85/10
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 years...
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Ordo
2012
The Great Kilapy
7/4
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off...
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The Great Kilapy
1993
L'homme au double visage
10/1
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...
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L'homme au double visage
1995
La rage au cœur
7/1
Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt...
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La rage au cœur
O Meu País Não Existe
0/0
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O Meu País Não Existe
1996
Two Dragons
9/2
Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana Zanatti) goes to have dinner with her daughter (Beatriz...
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Two Dragons
2016
O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
0/0
In an isolated village of the Alentejo region, a conflict arises. José Vitorino, one of the landowners of the region, rich in prehistoric monuments, w...
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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas
1983
A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
5/3
The film is inspired by the Mário de Sá-Carneiro short story, where the narration is made by Professor Antena's assistant who walks by his side when h...
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A Estranha Morte do Professor Antena
1995
Sinais de Fogo
8.5/2
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
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Sinais de Fogo
2000
April Captains
6.526/65
Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salaz...
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April Captains
2002
A Falha
7.25/4
Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion. But, contrary to expectations, these "old boys" reali...
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A Falha
2014
Encontradouro
0/0
Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley.
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Encontradouro
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
6.5/432
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...
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Night Train to Lisbon
2007
The Mystery of Sintra
5.4/11
Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed whodunit for the daily "Diário de Notícias". Could it b...
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The Mystery of Sintra
2012
Até que a vida nos separe
1/2
"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 husband's boss. T...
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Até que a vida nos separe
1978
Histórias Selvagens
8.5/2
An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a territory threatened by floods, the film is a cinematograp...
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Histórias Selvagens
2001
Anjo Caído
10/1
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 brot...
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Anjo Caído
2009
4 Hearts
6.667/6
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside t...
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4 Hearts
2012
A mãe do meu filho
0/0
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 divi...
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A mãe do meu filho
2018
Apparition
10/1
A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
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Apparition
1996
Saramago: Documentos
0/0
About the Portuguese author José Saramago, based on a long interview with the writer at his home on the island of Lanzarote, in which he analyzes his...
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Saramago: Documentos
1993
The End of the World
7/5
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..
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The End of the World
2019
Portugal Não Está à Venda
2.5/2
The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China, Germany...
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Portugal Não Está à Venda
2004
Kiss Me
5.667/6
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 s...
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Kiss Me
1993
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
10/1
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunn...
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
2009
O Último Condenado à Morte
0/0
The story about the last man to be sentenced to death in Portugal.
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O Último Condenado à Morte
2018
The Dead Queen
6.3/9
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 tells...
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The Dead Queen
1992
No Dia dos Meus Anos
6/5
This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the second episode, The Air.
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No Dia dos Meus Anos
2022
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
5.8/10
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life...
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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
2001
Querida Mãe
10/1
The elder matriarch of a dysfunctional family is mistankenly declared dead.
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Querida Mãe
2019
522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father
5.4/8
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 journey fr...
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522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father
1983
Jogo de Mão
7.333/3
In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has a street entertainer with hand puppets summarize the c...
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Jogo de Mão
1995
Kiss and Cry
8/1
Neglected by his parents, a portly teenager finds refuge with a gang of young thugs in Lisbon.
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Kiss and Cry
1987
A Borboleta na Gaiola
10/1
"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 connected to n...
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A Borboleta na Gaiola
1982
Life Is Beautiful
7.313/8
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 into a...
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Life Is Beautiful
2012
Imagine
7.3/53
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
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Imagine
1983
Um S Marginal
7/1
In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers will be installed. With the ecological balance serious...
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Um S Marginal
1993
One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve
8.3/3
The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her penpal Alfonso. Photographer Martin Trout follows them the...
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One Foot in the Grave: One Foot in the Algarve
2019
Forbidden Images
0/0
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.
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Forbidden Images
2020
Mosquito
6.3/23
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 fro...
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Mosquito
2000
Monsanto
6.5/2
Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation Revolutio...
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Monsanto
2019
Our Consul in Havana
0/0
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 struggles...
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Our Consul in Havana
1987
The Jester
6.75/12
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells g...
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The Jester
1999
Fuga
10/1
Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the political police, PIDE, assaulted his house. Fearing of what h...
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Fuga
1987
Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
9/1
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...
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Era Uma Vez Um Alferes
1997
The Garden of Redemption
7/1
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operati...
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The Garden of Redemption
2000
Lourdes
7.2/5
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...
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Lourdes
1985
L'Herbe rouge
7/1
Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past, apparently with the aim of curing his present mi...
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L'Herbe rouge
2014
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
4.541/37
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...
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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
2001
Cavaleiros De Água Doce
10/1
After the passing of one of his friends, João remember's the summer he had with his friends when he was 12 years old.
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Cavaleiros De Água Doce
1997
Land of Storms
4.5/4
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...
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Land of Storms
2014
Maria
0/0
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....
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Maria
1989
Jaz Morto e Arrefece
10/1
Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
2008
A Ilha dos Escravos
8/1
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...
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A Ilha dos Escravos
2020
Bruno Aleixo's Film
7.1/8
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...
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Bruno Aleixo's Film
1996
Foreign Land
7.15/60
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling...
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Foreign Land
1993
Havanera 1820
4.667/3
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...
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Havanera 1820
1994
D'Artagnan's Daughter
5.652/132
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...
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
2016
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
6.6/78
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...
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
2001
Teorema de Pitágoras
7/1
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...
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Teorema de Pitágoras
2020
Before the Mountains
0/0
A theft of water, a homicide, a question of honour, a tragedy in the village of Gralhas, Montalegre.
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Before the Mountains
2020
The Art of Dying Far Away
0/0
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...
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The Art of Dying Far Away
2012
O Último Verão
0/0
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.
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O Último Verão
1994
Daisy and Mona
9/1
The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus this gritty, but upbeat French drama. Daisy, a typical y...
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Daisy and Mona
2020
Egas’ Ego
5/1
Egas Moniz, a man marked by perseverance and ambition. Audacious and in dissonance with a country full of “narrow-minded” people, Egas Moniz faced eve...
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Egas’ Ego
2019
Último Acto
0/0
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Último Acto
1996
Dying to Go Home
7/5
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 to...
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Dying to Go Home
2022
The Home Fairy
6.4/6
Vera, a single mother with two small children, is forced to have two jobs to survive after her children's father has disappeared. She works as a cashi...
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The Home Fairy
1994
Pax
8/1
Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only...
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Pax
2026
Our Father: The Last Days of a Dictator
0/0
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 t...
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Our Father: The Last Days of a Dictator
2025
Nuno Álvares Pereira: O Condestável
0/0
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