João César Monteiro Movies

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during...

Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the...

An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. Eloi takes Samuel under his wing,...

Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in...

Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head....

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his window.

A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert...

A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.

The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as...

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is...

By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the...

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from...

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...