João Lagarto
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.42 |
Birthday | 1954-10-05 |
Place of Birth | Lisbon, Portugal |
Also Known As |
2005
The Crime of Father Amaro
5.2/35
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first publi...
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The Crime of Father Amaro
2007
Corruption
3.8/10
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
2005
A Shot in the Dark
5.6/6
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
1996
Goodbye, Father
7.2/9
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
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
1997
Tentação
6.6/6
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
5/5
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
5.1/7
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
4.7/8
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
7/2
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
0/0
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
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
8/1
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
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
6.503/391
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
2014
Encontradouro
0/0
Four people meet during a train trip up the Douro Valley.
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Encontradouro
2000
April Captains
6.433/57
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
7.5/2
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
2007
The Mystery of Sintra
5.4/9
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
1/1
"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
0/0
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
0/0
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Anjo Caído
2009
4 Hearts
6.8/4
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
2018
Apparition
10/1
A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
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Apparition
2012
A mãe do meu filho
0/0
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A mãe do meu filho
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
5.7/3
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
4/1
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
5.2/5
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
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
1993
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
0/0
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
2018
The Dead Queen
6.2/8
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
5.5/4
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
6.1/8
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
0/0
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
4.7/7
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
6/2
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
0/0
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
0/0
"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
2012
Imagine
7.3/44
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
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Imagine
1982
A Vida É Bela?!
8.1/6
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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A Vida É Bela?!
1983
Um S Marginal
0/0
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 Algarve
7.5/2
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 Algarve
2019
Forbidden Images
0/0
Romantic Comedy directed by Hugo Diogo, based on a novel by Pedro Paixão.
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Forbidden Images
2020
Mosquito
6.8/15
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
0/0
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
1999
Fuga
0/0
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
0/0
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
1985
L'Herbe rouge
0/0
Telefilm directed by Pierre Kast broadcast in 1985, based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian.
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L'Herbe rouge
1997
The Garden of Redemption
0/0
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
2014
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
4.5/33
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
2000
Lourdes
6.8/4
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
2001
Cavaleiros De Água Doce
0/0
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
1987
The Jester
6.4/7
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
1997
Land of Storms
3/2
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
0/0
Are the Portuguese afraid of the changes after the Estado Novo dictatorship?
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Jaz Morto e Arrefece
1996
Foreign Land
6.8/38
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...
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Foreign Land
1993
Havanera 1820
2/1
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
5.7/107
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
6.7/72
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
2008
A Ilha dos Escravos
0/0
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
2001
Teorema de Pitágoras
0/0
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
0/0
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
O Ego de Egas
5/1
Egas Moniz biography, the only portuguese Nobel Prize in Medicine
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O Ego de Egas
2019
Último Acto
0/0
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Último Acto
1996
Dying to Go Home
6/3
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
2011
My Name Is Bernadette
7.5/17
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
1985
Morte D'Homem
0/0
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Morte D'Homem
2023
Há-de Haver Uma Lei
4.5/1
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Há-de Haver Uma Lei
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
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
5.8/4
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
1995
La rage au cœur
0/0
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
9/1
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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