João César Monteiro

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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....

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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,...

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

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

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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

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The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...

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Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has...

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

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In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual...

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Two of the best fishermen in the city, umrui aka Dj Mafia and dj bullins, went to the deepest waters of the ocean and fished for sounds never heard...

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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...

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The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

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