João César Monteiro
Birthday: 1939-02-02
Place of Birth: Figueira da Foz, Portogallo
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article João César Monteiro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Come and Go
João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to ...
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boa...
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End of Conservation
A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and...
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Doc's Kingdom
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile....
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Lettera Amorosa
João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his w...
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A Walk with Johnny Guitar
Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the so...
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Sounds of Codfish
Two of the best fishermen in the city, umrui aka Dj Mafia and dj bullins, went to the deepest waters...
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Hovering Over the Water
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while su...
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The Spousals of God
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a ...
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The Hips of J.W.
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in rea...
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Trails
Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run acr...
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Silvestre
A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a d...
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He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bu...
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Doomed Love
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives....
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A Estrangeira
The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but...
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One Hundred Times Lost
Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is ...
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The Last Dive
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging i...
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Fragments of an Alms-Film
Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has giv...
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Rosa Negra
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Ferna...
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A True and Faithful Account
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Men...
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Snow White
Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adap...
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Screen Tests with Maria Cabral and César Monteiro
Never-before-seen footage of Monteiro’s first film tests for an unfinished project with Maria Cabral...
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