João César Monteiro

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 ...

An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy’s girlfriend through a roll of the dice.

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 ...

The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of ...

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

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

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