João Lagarto — Actor (17)
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Our Father: The Last Days of a Dictator (2026) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Pai Nosso: Os Últimos Dias de Salazar
director: José Filipe Costa actor: Jorge Mota / Catarina Avelar …
other title: Pai Nosso: Os Últimos Dias de Salazar
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 the São Bento mansion to convalesce, he is no longer President of the Council. But no one tells him the truth: not his faithful housekeeper Maria de Jesus, nor his maids Aparecida, Socorro, and Teresinha, nor his personal doctor. For two years he lives under a meticulously constructed illusion, believing he is still President, until his death in 1970.
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The Great Kilapy (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
O Grande Kilapy
director: Zézé Gamboa actor: Lázaro Ramos / Pedro Hossi …
other title: 위대한 킬라피 / O Grande Kilapy
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 a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle.
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A Falha (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Falha
director: João Mário Grilo actor: Alexandra Lencastre / Teresa Roby …
25 anos depois, um grupo de amigos do liceu decidem organizar uma reunião, mas ao contrário do que é esperado, esses 'velhos amigos' aperceber-se-ão que tempo terá acentuado as suas diferenças. A atmosfera é tensa, um episódio despertará a verdadeira natureza de cada um.
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4 Hearts (2009) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
4 Copas
director: Manuel Mozos actor: Rita Martins / Margarida Marinho …
other title: 4 Copas
Diana is a young woman about to enter adulthood. She lives with her father, Gabriel, a game machine dealer, and Magdalene, the stepmother, alongside those working in a hair salon in a shopping center. One day, Diana discovers that Magdalene not only keeps a secret relationship with Michael, the security center and instructor in the gym of the neighborhood, as resumed his old habit of playing. Not to allow the stepmother to his father do the same as her mother had done to her, Diana decides to intervene, approaching the Magdalene lover.
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Life Is Beautiful (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Vida É Bela.?!
director: Luís Galvão Teles actor: Canto e Castro / Helena Isabel …
other title: A Vida É Bela.?! / A Vida É Bela?!
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 republic, and then to a military regime. Finally, he is forced into exile. Back in 1935 to family, friends, and lovers, he is in a mix-mesh of lies, and scheming, again.
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A Shot in the Dark (2005) [Movie] Douban
Um Tiro no Escuro
director: 莱昂内尔·维埃拉 actor: 乔昆姆·德·阿尔梅达 / Vanessa Mesquita …
other title: 黑暗中的视线 / Um Tiro no Escuro
在里约热内卢的机场，一名葡萄牙乘务员带走了维罗尼卡两个月大的孩子。两年来，维罗尼卡一直没有停止过对女儿的找寻，但情况却一直没什么进展。失望的她在里斯本住下来，一有空便去机场，指望能找到当初带走女儿的那个女人。一日，维罗尼卡阴差阳错地卷入一桩银行劫案中，很快警方便盯上了与劫匪同行的她。身陷警察和劫匪之间，维罗尼卡要如何继续寻找自己的女儿呢？
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Mosquito (2020) [Movie] Douban
Mosquito
director: 若昂·努诺·平托 actor: 菲利佩·杜阿尔特 / 米格尔·博尔赫斯 …
other title: 细若蚊蚋 / Zacarias
1917年第一次世界大战，一名梦想在法国前线为祖国葡萄牙奋力一搏的年轻士兵，不料被派去莫桑比克作战。然而在这趟神秘未知的旅途中，他逐渐被荒野吞噬，走进虚无的迷途与困顿之中，经历一幕幕交织的无穷噩梦。改编自导演若昂·努诺·平托祖父的真实经历，以非线性叙事将战时伤痛铺陈开来，大量自然光线的全景画幅展现非洲草原的广袤与人类的渺小，由此引发思考，幅员辽阔的土地上，战争所毁灭的，仅仅是人性吗？