João César Monteiro Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A sentimental comedy about... toothpicks. The hero manufactures and exchanges toothpicks for countless goods because he ignores the value of money....

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...

One of the adventures of João de Deus.