Movies: João César Monteiro
- 2003
Come and Go (2003)
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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 prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events....
- 1993
Hovering Over the Water (1993)
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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 drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. ...
- 1996
God's Comedy (1996)
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An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop....
- 1989
Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)
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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 waterfront....
- 1999
As Bodas de Deus (1999)
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After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice....
- 1988
Doc's Kingdom (1988)
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An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile....
- 1978
The Two Soldiers (1978)
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The film follows soldiers escape and wander, talk, and drift aimlessly....
- 1995
Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus (1995)
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One of the adventures of João de Deus....
- 1992
The Last Dive (1992)
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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, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said...
- 2023
Sounds of Codfish (2023)
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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 before. Converting electronic music to simple and humble Portugueseness, we talk about our great battl...
- 1996
A Walk with Johnny Guitar (1996)
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Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head. Strangely enough, there is no sign of the hole in his head. Day breaks over the city. Further strolls are in si...
- 1989
A True and Faithful Account (1989)
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The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violenc...
- 1978
Trails (1978)
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Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods....
- 1979
Doomed Love (1979)
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A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....
- 1972
Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972)
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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 practically lives in bed, in the midst of green plants. His father expressly desired that his son film this eccentri...
- 1975
As Armas e o Povo (1975)
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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 Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known....
- 1972
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1972)
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“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 useless to try” - João César Monteiro...
- 1973
One Hundred Times Lost (1973)
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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 Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come toget...
- 1997
The Hips of J.W. (1997)
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Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Luci...
- 2000
Snow White (2000)
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Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black scre...