João César Monteiro Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

One of the adventures of João de Deus.