João César Monteiro Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

One of the adventures of João de Deus.

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...

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

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,...

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...

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...

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

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's...

The film follows soldiers escape and wander, talk, and drift aimlessly.

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

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

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

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...

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...