Joao Cesar Monteiro

Activities : Actor, Director, Screenwriter

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (6 films)

Come and go (2003) Director : Joao Cesar Monteiro Actors : Joao Cesar Monteiro, Rita Pereira Marques, Joaquina Chichau, Manuela Freitas (de), Ligia Soares Co-production : Gemini Films, Arte France Cinéma Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Joao Vuvu, a widower, has an only son who is in prison for a double homicide and a bank holdup. He lives alone in his spacious, sunlit house perched atop Monte Olivete in Lisbon’s historical quarter. It’s clear that Joao possesses...

As Bodas de Deus (1999) Director : Joao Cesar Monteiro Actors : Rita Durao, Joao Cesar Monteiro, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa, Manuela Freitas (de)... Associate production company : Madragoa Filmes Genres : Fiction Synopsis : All seems lost. Then, in a lonely, freezing park, two shadowy figures meet: João de Deus and a messenger from God. The messenger gives the gangster a case stuffed with money then leaves, his mission accomplished. João counts the...

Bassin de J.W. (Le) (1997) Director : Joao Cesar Monteiro Actors : Joao Cesar Monteiro, Hugues Quester, Pierre Clémenti, Joana Azevedo, Graziella Delerm Co-production : Euripide Productions Genres : Fiction Synopsis : The film begins with a short play by August Strindberg, introduction to the "The Inferno". It tells of the rivalry between God and Lucifer. God puts man on Earth for his own amusement. His creatures take themselves for gods; yet...

God's Comedy (1995) Director : Joao Cesar Monteiro Actors : Claudia Teixeira, Manuela Freitas (de), Max Monteiro, Raquel Ascensao Co-production : Pierre Grise Productions, Taïnos Prod, Arte France Cinéma Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Joao de Deus spends his days quietly. He divides his time between his job at the Paradis Ice Cream Parlour where, to everyone's satisfaction and delight, he not only carries out his duties as manager, but also invents the house...

PAROLES (1992) Director : Anne Benhaïem Actors : Agathe Duparc, Joao Cesar Monteiro Associate production company : Movimento Production Genres : Fiction

DOC'S KINGDOM (1990) Director : Robert Kramer Actors : Paul Mc Isaac, Vincent Gallo, Ruy Furtado, Joao Cesar Monteiro, Roslyn Payne Associate production company : Garance Films