Behind the Sun 2001  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Jose Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany, Ravi Ramos Lacerda, Flavia Marco Antonio, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Caio Junqueira, Mariana Loureiro, Servilio De Holanda, Everaldo Pontes
This award-winning film, set in a Brazilian desert during April, 1910, reveals the effects on feuding families who see honor in revenge. Tonho (Rodrigo Santoro) receives orders from his father to avenge his brother's murder and performs the deed even though he knows that he will be the next one marked for death. For a brief time, Tonho and his young brother, Pacu (Ravi Ramos Lacerda), escape by running away with a traveling circus. But honor weighs heavily, and they return home to face Tonho's fate.
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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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Dark Water 2005  PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Pete Postlethwaite, Camryn Manheim, Ariel Gade, Perla Haney-Jardine, Debra Monk, Linda Emond, Bill Buell, Elina Lowensohn
Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) and her six-year-old daughter Ceci (Ariel Gade) find refuge in a run-down apartment following Dahlia's separation from Kyle (Dougray Scott). But their security comes into question when black ooze seeps into the apartment and footsteps are heard in the vacant apartment above. Could ghosts be involved?
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Midnight 1998  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
Cast: Fernanda Torres, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Matheus Nachtergaele, Nelson Sargento, Tonico Pereira, Aulio Ribeiro, Carlos Vereza, Luciana Bezerra, Antonio Gomes, Nelson Dantas
It is midnight, 31 December 1999, and the fireworks show is on over Rio de Janeiro beach. Many stories take place during this event, but one is at the center as two people's lives intersect: an escapee from prison, Joao (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) and speech therapist Maria (Fernanda Torres) whose boyfriend Pedro (Carlos Vereza) just left her.
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The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Adventure
Director: Walter Salles
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mia Maestro, Mercedes Moran, Jorge Chiarella, Jean Pierre Noher, Lucas Oro, Marina Glezer, Gabriela Aguilera, Sofia Bertolotto, Franco Solazzi, Susana Lanteri, Ricardo Diaz Mourelle, Sergio Boris, Daniel Cargieman
Before he became a leader of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his friend, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna), were medical students who motorcycled across South America on their way to a leper colony. This is the story of that adventure. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Al Otro Lado Del Rio") and received one other nomination.
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| 1. Behind the Sun (2001)
2. Central Station (1998)
3. Dark Water (2005)
4. Midnight (1998)
5. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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