João César Monteiro
Also Known As: Max Monteiro, J.C.M. , 주앙 세자르 몬테이로, 주앙 세자르 몬테이루
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Figueira da Foz, Portogallo
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 03, 2003
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God's Comedy
Overview: An ice-cream seller lusts after the female employees in his shop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Come and Go
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-06-03
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Overview: 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 city's waterfront.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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End of Conservation
Overview: A satirical and delirious short which sums up the obsessions of João César Monteiro: film-making and… young women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-09-27
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Doc's Kingdom
Overview: An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Lettera Amorosa
Overview: João de Deus receives a treat from a friend, unclogs his bathtub, and contemplates Lisbon from his window.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Walk with Johnny Guitar
Overview: Lord knows where João de Deus has been. He's come home wounded in the head. He's got a bit of the soundtrack to Johnny Guitar in his head. Strangely enough, there is no sign of the hole in his head. Day breaks over the city. Further strolls are in sight. It is said that Mr. Monteiro, the alter ego of João de Deus, occasionally goes out with Nicholas Ray. At least, they've been seen together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Bestiary, or the Parade of Orpheus
Overview: One of the adventures of João de Deus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Sounds of Codfish
Overview: Two of the best fishermen in the city, umrui aka Dj Mafia and dj bullins, went to the deepest waters of the ocean and fished for sounds never heard before. Converting electronic music to simple and humble Portugueseness, we talk about our great battles, the love that people feel for great legends, and even the most ridiculous moments of the pandemic.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-12-02
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Hovering Over the Water
Overview: 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 takes him home, and, after he is revived, learns his story. As they talk, their mutual attraction grows, until a group of armed men suddenly arrive looking for Robert.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-02-24
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As Bodas de Deus
Overview: After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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The Hips of J.W.
Overview: 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 way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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Trails
Overview: Parallel tales of young couples desperately escaping cruel false fathers, each couple on the run across different regions of the country and during increasingly contemporary time periods.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1978-05-19
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Silvestre
Overview: A bewitching combinatory adaptation of the Bluebeard tale and a 15th century Portuguese fable of a damsel who disguises herself as a knight errant.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-05-06
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He Goes Long Barefoot That Waits For Dead Men's Shoes
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Doomed Love
Overview: A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1979-11-25
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A Estrangeira
Overview: The shady side of an Italian textile trade in northern Germany is the subject of this slow-paced but atmospheric drama featuring Alberto Sordi as Totonno, a low-level, petty criminal anxious to move up a somewhat crooked ladder. Rising to the rank of the "dons" -- Don Raffaele (Carmine Ippolito) or Don Gennaro (Pasquale Cenammo) -- is not an easy task, as Totonno is about to find out. In the meantime, Paula (Belinda Lee) provides a romantic distraction, and another would-be entrepreneur opts for the straight and narrow. This uneven feature offers some colorful performances but the sum is less convincing than its parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-02-01
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One Hundred Times Lost
Overview: Artur is in Lisbon for his holidays, wonders aimlessly, and is picked up by Rui, a young man who is into marketing and advertising. Joana is in Lisbon for holidays, but also trying to escape from a mysterious, dark passion. Artur and Joana come together, find common roots in their rural background.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1973-09-04
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The Last Dive
Overview: 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 a seedy night club to introduce him to Esperança, who is said to be the most beautiful sex worker in Lisbon—and is also Eloi’s daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Fragments of an Alms-Film
Overview: 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. His father expressly desired that his son film this eccentric daily life in 8 mm format. Maria’s wages are dilapidated to the last penny by this amateur, monstrous, family movie production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Rosa Negra
Overview: 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 he was forced to flee long ago, accused of setting fire to the Duarte’s factory. At the station he bumps into Mariana who is in love of him. António is not welcome and is violently attacked by a group connected to Duarte ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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A True and Faithful Account
Overview: 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. Brás is a ruined man, a bohemian with a reputation for violence and erratic behaviour. Antonia’s fortune is the first sacrifice made by the young wife. Fascinated by the man who humiliates and ill-treats her, she follows him in a pilgrimage to increasingly barren lands, to increasingly less hospitable houses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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Snow White
Overview: Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert Walser’s anti-fairy tale. Carefully restricting the image track, Monteiro maintains an almost totally black screen in order to focus instead on the voices of Snow White, the Prince, the Queen and the Hunter, engaged in an extended debate about love, free will and the events leading up to the fateful attempt on the maiden’s life. Despite its visual austerity, Snow White is haunted by the arresting images with which it begins – infamous black-and-white photographs of Walser lying dead in the snow after his heart attack outside a Swiss asylum at the age of seventy-eight, a strange realization of the “death of the author” so central to postmodern literary criticism.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-11
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Paroles
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-04
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