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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named ...