João César Monteiro Movies

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...

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

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...

Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a...

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

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

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

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.

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