Central do Brasil

Released Year: 1998

Certificate: R

Runtime: 110 minutes

Genre: Drama

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 80

Director: Walter Salles

Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira

No of Votes: 36419

Gross: 5595428

Overview: 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.

Similar Movies

Cidade de Deus

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Diarios de motocicleta

The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.

Todo sobre mi madre

Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela.

Les triplettes de Belleville

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.

Brazil

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

Roma

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Tropa de Elite

In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.

Black

The cathartic tale of a young woman who can't see, hear or talk and the teacher who brings a ray of light into her dark world.

Efter brylluppet

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

21 Grams

A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

Hable con ella

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Kramer vs. Kramer

Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.