Socorro Nobre

1996

Portuguese

7.5

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

Walter Salles Director

Socorro Nobre as Self

Frans Krajcberg as Self

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 to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, while Franz is a tormented artist that lost his family and lived his childhood in a ghetto in Poland but survived the Holocaust. Franz moved to Brazil and recovered life wish living close to nature and inspires Socorro to dream with life again.

The Motorcycle Diaries

2004

Spanish

7.7

♡ 33

83%

based on novel or book

Walter Salles Director

Rodrigo De la Serna as Alberto Granado

Mía Maestro as Chichina Ferreyra

Gael García Bernal as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

Brandon Cruz as Miner

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

On the Road

2012

English

♡ 48

47%

based on novel or book

Walter Salles Director

Kirsten Dunst as Camille / Carolyn Cassady

Amy Adams as Jane / Joan Vollmer

Kristen Stewart as Marylou / LuAnne Henderson

Steve Buscemi as Tall Thin Salesman

Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.

Dark Water

2005

English

5.6

♡ 63

47%

28%

Action

based on novel or book

manhattan, new york city

Mystery

remake

teacher

Walter Salles Director

Jennifer Connelly as Dahlia

Tim Roth as Jeff Platzer

Dougray Scott as Kyle

Linda Emond as Mediator

Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences—and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom…

Central Station

1998

Portuguese

8.0

♡ 50

94%

Walter Salles Director

Sergio Kato as Dora's Client

Marília Pêra as Irene

Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora

Matheus Nachtergaele as Isaías

An emotional 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.

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

2014

Portuguese

7.1

♡ 9

83%

Walter Salles Director

Zhangke Jia as Himself

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 his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.

I'm Still Here

2024

Portuguese

8.1

♡ 77

97%

1970s

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

mother

rio de janeiro

Walter Salles Director

Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva

Thelmo Fernandes as Lino Machado

Antonio Saboia as Marcelo

Daniel Dantas as Raul Ryff

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

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The Motorcycle Diaries

On the Road

Dark Water

Central Station

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

I'm Still Here