João César Monteiro

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 ...

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

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

Two actors performing in Strindberg’s “Inferno” as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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