João César Monteiro Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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