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1. Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)
122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado
Votes: 1,419
2. God's Comedy (1995)
170 min | Comedy, Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Raquel Ascensão
Votes: 1,395
3. The Spousals of God (1999)
150 min | Comedy
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Rita Durão, João César Monteiro, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa
Votes: 782
4. Vai~E~Vem (2003)
175 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chicau, Manuela de Freitas
Votes: 732
5. Hovering Over the Water (1986)
143 min | Drama, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Laura Morante, Philip J. Spinelli, Manuela de Freitas, Georges Claisse
Votes: 520
6. Branca de Neve (2000)
75 min | Drama
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.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria Do Carmo Rôlo, Ana Brandão, Reginaldo da Cruz, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 445
7. Fragile as the World (2001)
90 min | Drama, Romance
An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, ... See full summary »
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Stars: Maria Gonçalves, Bruno Terra, Sophie Balabanian, Carlos Ferreira
Votes: 354
8. Silvestre (1981)
120 min | Drama
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.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 353
9. The Last Dive (1992)
88 min | Drama
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 wing, giving him a hot meal and bringing him to ... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Fabienne Babe, Canto e Castro, Francesca Prandi, Rita Blanco
Votes: 339
10. Amor de Perdição: Memórias de uma Família (1978)
262 min | Drama, Romance
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Stars: António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa
Votes: 317
11. Le bassin de J.W. (1997)
125 min | Comedy
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer are also competitors in real life. One of them, Henrique, is spiritually-obsessed with John Wayne and his way of walking. ... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Hugues Quester, Pierre Clémenti, Joana Azevedo, Jean Watan
Votes: 244
12. Trails (1978)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy
For his feature debut Monteiro creatively borrowed from traditional Portuguese legends to craft a series of echoing, parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Manuela de Freitas, Luís de Sousa Costa, Francisco Domingues, Carmen Duarte Ferreira
Votes: 237
13. Passeio com Johnny Guitar (1996)
3 min | Short
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Ana Reis
Votes: 169
14. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1969)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Director: João César Monteiro | Star: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Votes: 163
15. Conserva Acabada (1990)
12 min | Short, Comedy
Short where João César Monteiro depicts his favorite things: movie making and women.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Alexandra Lencastre
Votes: 153
16. As Armas e o Povo (1975)
78 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
Film directors with hand-held cameras went to the streets of Lisbon from April 25 to May 1, 1974, registering interviews and political events of the Portuguese "Carnations Revolution", as that period would be later known.
Directors: Manuel Costa e Silva, António da Cunha Telles, Acácio de Almeida, António de Macedo, José de Sá Caetano, António Escudeiro, Henrique Espírito Santo, José Fonseca e Costa, Luís Galvão Teles, Eduardo Geada, Fernando Lopes, Fernando Matos Silva, Moedas Miguel, João César Monteiro, Glauber Rocha, Elso Roque, Alberto Seixas Santos, Artur Semedo, João Matos Silva, António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Fernando Balsinha, Álvaro Cunhal, Adelino Gomes, Júlio Isidro
Votes: 147
17. Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço (1970)
34 min | Short, Drama
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Antónia Brandão, Carlos Ferreiro, Carlos Porto, Elsa Figueiredo
Votes: 143
18. Fragments of an Alms-Film (1972)
75 min | Comedy
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 lives in bed, in the midst of green plants.... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Manuela de Freitas, João Perry, Dalila Rocha, Catarina Coelho
Votes: 121
19. Que Farei Eu com Esta Espada? (1975)
65 min | Documentary, History
By cross-editing footage of Portuguese workers protesting against NATO forces and various movies, Monteiro shows how one 'sword' can confront the army.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria Velho da Costa, José Diogo, Carlos Mena, Margarida Gil
Votes: 117
20. Doc's Kingdom (1988)
90 min | Drama
Doc lives on the edge of Europe where it imperceptibly slides over into the Third World. As a doctor, he knows that the illness he has contracted ten years before in war-torn Africa is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Kramer | Stars: Paul McIsaac, Vincent Gallo, Ruy Furtado, Roslyn Payn
Votes: 103
21. The Two Soldiers (1979)
25 min | Short, Drama
Two former peasants, currently soldiers, traverse the region of Trás-os-Montes.
Director: João César Monteiro
Votes: 69
22. Lettera Amorosa (1995)
5 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Cláudia Teixeira
Votes: 67
23. O Bestiário ou Cortejo de Orfeu (1995)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Raquel Ascensão, João César Monteiro
Votes: 61
24. The Mother (1979)
25 min | Short, Drama
The Mother is one of Monteiro's first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro
Votes: 61
25. The Love of the Three Pomegranates (1979 TV Movie)
25 min | Romance
A story of love and spells.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Margarida Gil, Helena Domingos, Joana Oliveira, Sílvia Gomes Ferreira
Votes: 58
26. A Estrangeira (1982)
100 min | Drama
Being divorced, André does not accept the idea of having to leave the residence and his furniture, as his woman suggests, when she visits him accompanied by an antiquarian.
Director: João Mário Grilo | Stars: Fernando Rey, Teresa Madruga, Carole Courtoy, Mariana Villar
Votes: 17
27. Relação Fiel e Verdadeira (1987)
85 min | Drama
The young girl, Antónia Margarida Castelo Branco, is handed over by her mother to Brás Telles de Meneses because of the obscure interests between rural aristocratic families in the North.
Director: Margarida Gil | Stars: Catarina Alves Costa, António Sequeira Lopes, Jorge Rolla, Laura Soveral
Votes: 17
28. Rosa Negra (1992)
90 min | Drama
Fernanda, António and Quim are travelling by train to a provincial Portuguese industrial city. Fernanda, a teacher, agrees to replace a pregnant colleague. António is returning to the home ... See full summary »
Director: Margarida Gil | Stars: Manuela de Freitas, Fernando Luís, Catarina Correia, Luís Lucas
Votes: 13
29.
Amor de Perdição: Memórias de uma Família (1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1978)
Drama, Romance
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa
Votes: 9
30.
Amor de Perdição: Memórias de uma Família (1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1978)
Drama, Romance
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa
Votes: 9
31.
Amor de Perdição: Memórias de uma Família (1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1978)
Drama, Romance
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa
Votes: 7
32. Paroles (1992)
30 min | Short
Director: Anne Benhaïem | Stars: Michel Benhaïem, Marc Budin, Christine Dory, Agathe Duparc
33. Ensaio (1971–1976)
Documentary
Stars: Teresa Silva Carvalho, João César Monteiro, Amélia Rey Colaço, Luis Sttau Monteiro
34.
Ensaio (1971–1976)
Episode:
Episode dated 2 September 1971
(1971)
Documentary
Star: João César Monteiro