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João César Monteiro was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic . He was born in Figueira da Foz on February 2, 1939 and died of cancer in Lisbon on February 3, 2003.
Total trailers found: 31
01 January 1995
One of the adventures of João de Deus.
24 March 1979
The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms.
04 September 1973
Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising.
02 December 2023
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.
10 March 1979
In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual connotation of the pomegranate – to tell a tale of love, envy, treason and mistaken/double identities.
25 June 1993
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague.
07 September 1962
A sentimental comedy about... toothpicks. The hero manufactures and exchanges toothpicks for countless goods because he ignores the value of money.
27 September 1990
A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
01 January 1970
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.
01 February 1982
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 Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder.
18 September 1992
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea.
12 October 1989
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.
16 December 1978
The film follows soldiers escape and wander, talk, and drift aimlessly.
19 May 1978
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.
31 January 1972
“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, thao
15 October 1999
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
20 January 1996
An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
06 May 1982
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
22 June 1989
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.
24 July 2013
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.
01 November 1977
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 "Carnation Revolution", as that period would be later known.
25 November 1979
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
09 June 1975
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
03 June 2003
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work.
01 January 1972
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.
29 October 1997
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well.
11 October 2000
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.
09 September 1988
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.
01 January 1995
João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his window.
01 May 1996
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.
