João César Monteiro Filmes

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...

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,...

One of the adventures of João de Deus.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...