Search results for "Walter Salles"

Behind the Sun (2001) RT 74% / Audience 87%

DVD release: Jun 2002

Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: José Dumont • Rodrigo Santoro • Rita Assemany • Ravi Ramos Lacerda

Central Station (1998)

Beautiful Dramatic Funny

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Fernanda Montenegro • Marília Pêra • Vinícius de Oliveira • Soia Lira

Dark Water (2005) RT 46% / Audience 28%

DVD release: Dec 2005

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Horror • Thriller

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Jennifer Connelly • John C. Reilly • Tim Roth • Dougray Scott

Paris, je t'aime (2006)

Enjoyable Beautiful Charming Classic

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Romance

DIRECTION: Gérard Depardieu • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Wes Craven • Alfonso Cuarón • Alexander Payne • Tom Tykwer • Sylvain Chomet • Gus Van Sant • Vincenzo Natali • Richard LaGravenese • Isabel Coixet • Olivier Assayas • Walter Salles • Bruno Podalydès • Oliver Schmitz • Gurinder Chadha • Nobuhiro Suwa • Daniela Thomas • Frédéric Auburtin • Christopher Doyle

CAST: Steve Buscemi • Axel Kiener • Julie Bataille • Bruno Podalydès

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) RT 84% / Audience 92%

Adventurous Thought provoking

DVD release: Feb 2005

"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Gael García Bernal • Rodrigo de la Serna • Mercedes Morán • Mía Maestro

Exposure (1991)

American photojournalist Peter Mandrake becomes embroiled in Brazil's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a ... (more)

GENRES: Drama • Romance • Thriller

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Peter Coyote • Amanda Pays • Tchéky Karyo • Giulia Gam

Stories on Human Rights (2008)

20 short films about human rights. (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Documentary • Drama • Music • Romance

DIRECTION: Jasmila Žbanić • Hany Abu-Assad • Jia Zhangke • Bram Schouw • Pablo Trapero • Walter Salles • Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Marina Abramovic • Charles de Meaux • Murali Nair • Pipilotti Rist • Daniela Thomas • Sergey Bodrov • Shira Geffen • Etgar Keret • Idrissa Ouedraogo • Abderrahmane Sissako • Saman Salur • Dominique Gonzales-Foerster • Ange Leccia • Sarkis • Armagan Ballantyne • Runa Islam • Francesco Jodice • Teresa Serrano

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On the Road (2012)

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S. (more)

GENRES: Adventure • Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Sam Riley • Garrett Hedlund • Kristen Stewart • Kirsten Dunst

Midnight (1998) RT Audience 50%

DVD release: Nov 2000

On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone. (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles • Daniela Thomas

CAST: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos • Fernanda Torres • Matheus Nachtergaele

Life Somewhere Else (2000)

When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Franz Krajcberg • Socorro Nobre

Foreign Land (1996)

After the death of her mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger. (more)

GENRES: Drama • Romance • Thriller

DIRECTION: Walter Salles • Daniela Thomas

CAST: Fernanda Torres • Fernando Alves Pinto • Alexandre Borges • Laura Cardoso

Linha de Passe (2008) RT 74% / Audience 72%

In the periphery of São Paulo, the pregnant single mother Cleuza works as maid in the apartment of a middle-class family. Each of her sons has a different unknown father: the ... (more)

GENRES: Drama

DIRECTION: Walter Salles • Daniela Thomas

CAST: Sandra Corveloni • Vinícius de Oliveira • Ana Luiza Garritano • José Geraldo Rodrigues

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema. (more)

GENRES: Comedy • Drama

DIRECTION: David Lynch • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Wong Kar-Wai • Lars von Trier • Roman Polanski • Andrei Konchalovsky • Bille August • Tsai Ming-liang • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Manoel de Oliveira • David Cronenberg • Ken Loach • Jane Campion • Atom Egoyan • Amos Gitai • Gus Van Sant • Nanni Moretti • Aki Kaurismäki • Theo Angelopoulos • Wim Wenders • Olivier Assayas • Takeshi Kitano • Chen Kaige • Elia Suleiman • Walter Salles • Raymond Depardon • Raoul Ruiz • Abbas Kiarostami • Zhang Yimou • Hou Hsiao-hsien • Claude Lelouch • Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Luc Dardenne • Youssef Chahine • Michael Cimino

CAST: Pegah Ahangarani • Leonid Alexeenko • Taraneh Alidoosti • Dàvi Alvarado

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (2014)

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for ... (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: Walter Salles

CAST: Jia Zhangke • Hongwei Wang • Zhao Tao • Sanming Han

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema. (more)

GENRES: Documentary

DIRECTION: James Franco • Tobias Lindholm • Franco Piavoli • Julio Bressane • Tariq Teguia • Bernardo Bertolucci • Kim Ki-duk • Catherine Breillat • Paul Schrader • Atom Egoyan • Shekhar Kapur • Brillante Mendoza • Wang Bing • Amiel Courtin-Wilson • Amos Gitai • Edgar Reitz • Sion Sono • Jean-Marie Straub • Hong Sang-soo • Lav Diaz • Claire Denis • Peter Chan • Jia Zhangke • Isabel Coixet • Ulrich Seidl • Nicolás Pereda • Athina Rachel Tsangari • John Akomfrah • Shirin Neshat • João Pedro Rodrigues • Michele Placido • Salvatore Mereu • Jazmín López • Frédéric Fonteyne • Rama Burshtein • Krzysztof Zanussi • Pablo Trapero • Walter Salles • Pablo Larraín • Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Abbas Kiarostami • Celina Murga • Benoît Jacquot • Amit Dutta • Tusi Tamasese • Shinya Tsukamoto • Marcello Pietro • Ermanno Olmi • Todd Solondz • Giorgos Lanthimos • Amir Naderi • Karim Ainouz • Monte Hellman • Semih Kaplanoglu • Antonio Capuano • Samuel Maoz • Yonfan • Giuseppe Piccioni • Davide Ferrario • Haile Gerima • Teresa Villaverde • Jan Cvitkovič • Franco Maresco • Marlen Khutsiyev • Aleksey German Jr • Guido Lombardi • Andrew Wonder • Lluís Galter • Hala Abdallah • Luca Severi

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Where Has Time Gone? (2017)

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held ... (more)