João César Monteiro

All Movies of João César Monteiro

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 Year

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  7.7
  The Spousals of God
  Two shadow-like figures meet in an old, icy park when all seems lost. They are Deus and a Messenger from God. The Messenger gives the Crook (which is the temporary state of poor Joao de Deus) a suitcase full of money. Having accom...
  | Movie director

   1999

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  The Hips of J.W.
  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, h...
  | Movie director

   1997

• 
  6.7
  God's Comedy
  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 purity to attain heaven. The surroundi...
  | Movie director

   1995

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  7.0
  Recollections of the Yellow House
  The story concerns the irrepressible João de Deus, an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta's boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. João, who has no visible means of support, is in his fifties, a...
  Character: João de Deus | Movie director

   1989

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  As Armas e o Povo
  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
  Director of the film

   1975

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  What Will I Do with This Sword?
  Director of the film

   1975

• 
  7.3
  Fragments of an Alms-Film
  On his first feature, Monteiro analyzes a family: the relationships between father and daughter, husband and wife, and also the relationship between the head of the family and his wife's parents. The pressure to build a standard f...
  Director of the film

   1972