João César Monteiro Movies

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

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

“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...

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

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

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

One of the adventures of João de Deus.

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...

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

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

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