João Lagarto
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 5, 1954
Place of Birth: Lisbon, Portugal
Known For
Apparition
A writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to write
Alta Definição
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Two Dragons
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 Batarda). Terrorised by the possibility of being turned into Chop Suey, the dog passes a frightening night, running through the restaurant and hearing the telenovela-like conversations taking place at the different tables. With the camera placed in the dog’s perspective, this short film acts as an amusing panorama of Lisbon society at the end of the 20th century.
O Processo dos Távoras
Sinais de Fogo
The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.
Histórias Selvagens
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 cinematographic chronicle of the rural worker in the area of Montemor-o-Velho.
3 Women
A historical fiction series that, from the biographies and cultural and civic intervention of the poet Natalia Correia, the editor Snu Abecassis and the journalist Vera Lagoa (pseudonym of Maria Armanda Falcão), recalls the last years of the Estado Novo (Second Republic) - 1961 to 1973 - from the beginning of the colonial War to the eve of the April Revolution.
Ballet Rose
When the Portuguese police began to investigate, in 1967, an illegal prostitution network, they ended up stumbling upon a huge secret that could shake the foundations of the republican regime: a select group of prostitutes who organized parties with teenage girls to secretly satisfy the sexual desires of bankers, politicians, ministers, aristocrats and powerful businessmen: the Ballet Rose Case.
Mulheres, às armas!
The Time in Between
Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.
Filmography
as Gil Airas
as Sr. Neves
as Américo Thomaz
as Avô de Tony
as Rui Ludovice
as Badocha
as Juiz
as Belmiro Fontes
as Cliente do Bar de Strip
as Attorney Melo
as Egas Moniz
as Arnaldo Soares
as João
as Gervásio
as Sergeant Justino
as Mário Barbosa
as Andrade Corvo
as Alberto
as Cliff
as Isaltino
as Afonso
as Reitor
as Teodoro Guerra
as Manuel Meira
as Claudio de Souza
as Zacarias Neves
as Le maire
as Maquinista
as Priest
as Manuel Andrade
as Basófias
as João
as Border Police Sergeant
as Abel Antunes
as Raul
as Urbano
as Brother Humberto
as Lestrade
as Armando
as Basílio
as Aníbal
as Gustavo
as Self
as Gabriel
as Padrinho
as Mário Figueiredo
as Boaventura
as Rui Amaro
as Ricardo Moreno
as Figueira
as Conde Abranhos
as Xavier Santos
as Padre Brito
as Castro Ferraz
as José das Dornas
as Cego
as Zé do Telhado
as le metteur en scène
as restaurant boss
as A. Reis, the novelist
as Dr. Rocha
as Carlos
as Cordeiro Pereira
as Lopes
as Manuel
as Jorge
as Director da Prova
as General Zeferino
as Jornalista Caxias
as Carlos
as José Maria
as Moreira
as Sérgio
as Fausto Marques
as Ministro da Presidência
as Tito
as Inácio
as Robalo
as Afonso
as Franco
as Manuel
as Acácio
as Casimiro
as Violador
as Pedro
as Child's Father
as Santos
as Casino Manager
as Diogo de Couto
as L'homme à la fenêtre
as Orlando
as Jules
as Cabbie
as Pente Fino
as João
as Sailor
as Augusto
as Constantino
as Niklos
as Gil
as Voice
as Pézinhos
as Sandre
as Jorge's Friend
as Roberteiro
as Sócio da Súcia