João Lagarto

Born: 1954-10-05


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Night Train to Lisbon

as Border Police Sergeant
Released: 2013-03-07

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles...

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D'Artagnan's Daughter

as Jules
Released: 1994-08-24

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where...

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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe

as Claudio de Souza
Released: 2016-06-02

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig,...

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April Captains

as Jornalista Caxias
Released: 2000-04-21

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued...

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Foreign Land

as Pedro
Released: 1996-09-04

During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign...

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One Foot in the Algarve

as Cabbie
Released: 1993-12-26

The Meldrews go on holiday to Portugal with Mrs Warboys, who is hoping for romance with her...

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Imagine

as Brother Humberto
Released: 2012-04-12

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

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A Shot in the Dark

as Castro Ferraz
Released: 2005-03-17

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in...

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Bairro

as uncredited
Released: 2013-06-26

Diana was born and raised in the neighborhood of Estrela Polar, lost hers parents when she was a...

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The Crime of Father Amaro

as Padre Brito
Released: 2005-10-27

O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese...

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Tentação

as Inácio
Released: 1997-12-26

Father António is a priest by vocation, committed and generous, dear people of Vila Daires a...

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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis

as Le maire
Released: 2014-12-17

At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However,...

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Ordo

as le metteur en scène
Released: 2004-09-15

Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with...

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My Name Is Bernadette

as Lestrade
Released: 2011-11-30

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to...

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522. A Cat, a Chinese Guy and My Father

as uncredited
Released: 2019-07-05

George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a...

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O Último Condenado à Morte

as Padrinho
Released: 2009-05-28

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

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Kiss Me

as Cego
Released: 2004-11-04

This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small...

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The Great Kilapy

as Raul
Released: 2012-09-07

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the...

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Sinais de Fogo

as Casino Manager
Released: 1995-11-03

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a...

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Lourdes

as uncredited
Released: 2000-05-29

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary...

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Teorema de Pitágoras

as Manuel
Released: 2001-05-27

João, a young man which uses to have much success with women but doesn't treat them as he...

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A Falha

as Carlos
Released: 2002-10-24

Twenty-five years after leaving school, a group of former students decide to organise a reunion....

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A Ilha dos Escravos

as Boaventura
Released: 2008-05-08

After a violent civil war, D. Miguel, the last Portuguese absolutist king, is defeated by the...

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Bruno Aleixo's Film

as uncredited
Released: 2020-01-23

Bruno Aleixo was invited to write a biopic about his own life. Lacking ideas, he decided to ask...

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Portugal Não Está à Venda

as uncredited
Released: 2019-02-21

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime...

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The Jester

as Voice
Released: 1987-10-31

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese...

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No Dia dos Meus Anos

as uncredited
Released: 1992-08-21

This Portuguese movie directed by João Botelho, is part of The Four Elements series. This is the...

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Daisy and Mona

as uncredited
Released: 1994-11-12

The difficult reunion between a tough young mother and her neglected daughter provide impetus...

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Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

as Dom João
Released: 2022-09-01

The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The...

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The Mystery of Sintra

as Conde Abranhos
Released: 2007-05-03

Summer of 1870. Two writers, Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão, decide to write a four-handed...

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Um S Marginal

as Jorge's Friend
Released: 1983-08-04

In the near future, along the Portuguese coast, a network of ocean and solar power transformers...

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Fuga

as Sérgio
Released: 1999-04-25

Set during the Estado Novo dictatorship, in the night of April 24, Pedro hears that the...

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Tudo Isto é Fado

as A. Reis, the novelist
Released: 2004-04-01

Shup up in dead-end lives with dreams larger than life, two inseparable friends in their...

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Corruption

as Figueira
Released: 2007-11-01

A crime drama based on the life of a woman who lived for years with a man that was the head of a...

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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

as Constantino
Released: 1993-01-15

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as...

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Kiss and Cry

as Santos
Released: 1995-11-10

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

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The Art of Dying Far Away

as Gervásio
Released: 2020-08-31

Can a turtle, the most pacific animal on earth, start a range of significant events that are...

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A Vida É Bela?!

as Sócio da Súcia
Released: 1982-02-19

Hipólito is a self-made man, who went up in life in devious ways, and used for profit the social...

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Goodbye, Father

as Manuel
Released: 1996-12-20

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his...

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Cavaleiros De Água Doce

as Director da Prova
Released: 2001-01-28

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

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Mosquito

as Sargento Justino
Released: 2020-03-05

Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists...

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Land of Storms

as Robalo
Released: 1997-10-26

Lena disappears mysteriously during the winter of 1976. This is the last stop on a journey that...

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The Murmuring Coast

as restaurant boss
Released: 2004-09-10

During the war of in-dependency Evita moves from Lisbon to Mozambique to marry Luís. She slowly...

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The Dead Queen

as Afonso
Released: 2018-08-25

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his...

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Há-de Haver Uma Lei

as Juiz
Released: 2023-05-24

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Forbidden Images

as Alberto
Released: 2019-02-28

Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão.

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Histórias Selvagens

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-01

An adaptation of two short stories by Passos Coelho, essentially shot in a valley that is a...

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The Garden of Redemption

as Franco
Released: 1997-05-25

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi...

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La rage au cœur

as L'homme à la fenêtre
Released: 1995-06-05

Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of...

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Morte D'Homem

as Pézinhos
Released: 1985-11-29

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Havanera 1820

as Sailor
Released: 1993-05-21

The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods...

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Jogo de Mão

as Roberteiro
Released: 1983-02-02

In a unique approach to what amounts to four pseudo-morality plays, director Monique Rutler has...

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Apparition

as Reitor
Released: 2018-03-22

A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write

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Two Dragons

as Child's Father
Released: 1996-01-01

Dois Dragões follows a small dog on an adventure in a Chinese restaurant, where its owner (Ana...

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L'Herbe rouge

as Sandre
Released: 1985-09-11

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

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4 Hearts

as Gabriel
Released: 2009-08-20

Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game...

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Anjo Caído

as Lopes
Released: 2001-09-29

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O Ego de Egas

as Egas Moniz
Released: 2020-12-31

Egas Moniz biography, the only portuguese Nobel Prize in Medicine

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O Segredo das Pedras Vivas

as Manuel Meira
Released: 2016-09-10

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

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Before the Mountains

as João
Released: 2020-09-05

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

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Encontradouro

as Maquinista
Released: 2014-12-13

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

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The End of the World

as João
Released: 1993-06-10

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the...

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Último Acto

as uncredited
Released: 2019-11-26

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Maria

as Priest
Released: 2014-07-01

Maria a young girl living in Portugal in the late 60's, is left alone by her husband who is...

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Monsanto

as Carlos
Released: 2000-02-15

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

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The Fortunate Ones

as Rui Ludovice
Released: 2024-02-14

Algarve, late 90s. Following the death of her grandmother, Milene - a strong young woman full of...

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Our Consul in Havana

as Andrade Corvo
Released: 2019-07-17

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

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Querida Mãe

as Jorge
Released: 2001-03-29

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

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Três Crimes, Três Curtas

as uncredited
Released: 2023-08-31

S.Ó.S.”, by Bruno Soares, “Céu Aberto ou Espaço Limitado”, by José António Loureiro, and “Para...

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Applause

as uncredited
Released: 2023-03-10

A message of praise to the President concludes a Party assembly, sparking apotheotic applause....

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Jaz Morto e Arrefece

as Gil
Released: 1989-01-01

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

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Resistirei

as Ricardo Moreno
First aired: 2007-11-16

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Mulheres

as Manuel Andrade
First aired: 2014-06-01

The stories of seven women, whose destinies intersect. Seven Lisbon couples live different...

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Alta Definição

as Self
First aired: 2009-09-12

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

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Santa Bárbara

as Zacarias Neves
First aired: 2015-09-28

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A Banqueira do Povo

as Augusto
First aired: 1993-04-12

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Ilha dos Amores

as Xavier Santos
First aired: 2007-03-26

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Maigret

as Niklos
First aired: 1991-12-01

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried...

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Doida por Ti

as Abel Antunes
First aired: 2012-10-24

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Vidas de Sal

as Violador
First aired: 1996-09-30

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Amar Demais

as Arnaldo Soares
First aired: 2020-09-14

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Timeless Love

as Belmiro Fontes
First aired: 2023-01-30

Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family...

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A Outra

as Rui Amaro
First aired: 2008-03-24

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Terra Mãe

as Tito
First aired: 1998-03-09

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The Time in Between

as João
First aired: 2013-10-21

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter...

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3 Mulheres

as Isaltino
First aired: 2018-10-26

A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of...

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Sozinhos em Casa

as Pente Fino
First aired: 1993-09-15

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Ele é Ela

as Aníbal
First aired: 2009-10-31

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Natural Law

as Attorney Melo
First aired: 2022-01-05

After the murder of a local student, a small town judge faces an unexpected dilemma: now her...

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João Semana

as José das Dornas
First aired: 2005-01-14

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Donos Disto Tudo

as uncredited
First aired: 2015-10-17

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Esquadra de Polícia

as Moreira
First aired: 1999-09-13

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A Mulher do Sr. Ministro

as Orlando
First aired: 1994-12-06

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Red Light

as Mário Barbosa
First aired: 2019-10-11

Red Light is a TV series created by Patrícia Muller & directed by Marco Leão & André Santos...

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Regresso a Sizalinda

as Armando
First aired: 2010-07-17

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Cidade Despida

as Basílio
First aired: 2010-04-23

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A Ferreirinha

as Zé do Telhado
First aired: 2004-09-24

The life of Antonia Ferreira (popularly known as "Ferreirinha") from her widowhood to her death,...

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O Jogo

as Dr. Rocha
First aired: 2004-02-09

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Riscos

as Afonso
First aired: 1997-10-04

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Não És Homem Não És Nada

as José Maria
First aired: 1999-11-16

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Polícias

as Casimiro
First aired: 1996-10-03

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Um Lugar para Viver

as Gustavo
First aired: 2009-09-24

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O Bairro

as Basófias
First aired: 2014-03-17

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Ballet Rose

as Ministro da Presidência
First aired: 1998-09-21

When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they...

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O Processo dos Távoras

as Cordeiro Pereira
First aired: 2002-10-01

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Conde de Abranhos

as General Zeferino
First aired: 2000-10-03

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Aquela Cativa que me tem Cativo

as Diogo de Couto
First aired: 1995-09-23

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Jogo Duplo

as Teodoro Guerra
First aired: 2017-12-04

Between the mysterious Orient, the paradisiacal peninsula of Troia, the urbanity of Setúbal and...

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