Best movies of João César Monteiro

Actors : João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.

Actors : Cláudia Teixeira, Raquel Ascensão, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and...

Actors : Reginaldo da Cruz, Luís Miguel Cintra, Maria Do Carmo Rôlo, Ana Brandão,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

Based on Robert Walser's play, Branca de Neve is a recital of Snow White over a black screen with spontaneous flashing images of clouds and some unintelligible dialogue.

Actors : João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

João Vuvu, lives alone in a house that requires regeneration but due to being alone he is unable to do the work. On his son's release from prison and João's ensuing deception triggers a series of somber events.

Actors : Rita Durão, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa, João César Monteiro,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, a man (Joao Cesar Monteiro) wins his buddy's girlfriend (Joana Azevedo) through a roll of the dice.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo, Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.

Actors : Philip J. Spinelli, Laura Morante, Manuela de Freitas, Georges Claisse,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

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. She...

Actors : Canto e Castro, Francesca Prandi, Rita Blanco, Fabienne Babe,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

Actors : Hugues Quester, Joana Azevedo, Jean Watan, Pierre Clémenti,
Directors : João César Monteiro,

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his ...