João César Monteiro Movies

The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure...

A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.

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

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

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

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

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

One of the adventures of João de Deus.

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

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

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...