Central Station 1998  R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Marilia Pera, Vinicius de Oliveira, Soia Lira, Othon Bastos, Otavio Augusto, Stela Freitas
Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), a retired schoolteacher and an alcoholic, works at a Rio de Janeiro Central Station writing letters for the illiterate, though she has no intention of mailing the letters. Her life is changed when a mother leaves a letter-writing session and is killed crossing the street. Dora takes the woman's nine-year-old son (Vinicius de Oliveira) and, with no more than a name and an address, sets off to find his wayward father. Montenegro received an Academy Award nomination.
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 Love in the Time of Cholera 2007  R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Catalina Sandino Moreno, John Leguizamo, Hector Elizondo, Fernanda Montenegro, Liev Schreiber, Laura Harring, Angie Cepeda, Marcela Mar, Juan Angel
Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1998 novel, this story is set in Colombia where Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) dies falling out of a mango tree. The day of the funeral, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) arrives and delivers a message to the widow, Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), informing her that he has been in love with her for the past 51 years. The film then flashes back to their long-ago, ill-fated courtship and continues through their lives over the last half-century.
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The Other Side of the Street 2004  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Marcos Bernstein
Cast: Fernanda Montenegro, Raul Cortez, Luiz Carlos Persy, Laura Cardoso, Milene Pizarro, Marcio Vito
Lonely divorcee Regina (Fernanda Montenegro) helps out the Rio police department by spying in her neighborhood but is kicked off the force when she reports seeing her neighbor kill a woman. Her neighbor is respected, retired Judge Camargo (Raul Cortez), and the police do not believe Regina's story. Regina decides to investigate on her own, and her surveillance leads to a romantic relationship between the two.
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| 1. Central Station (1998)
2. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
3. The Other Side of the Street (2004)
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