Central Station (film)

1998 French-Brazilian film by Walter Salles

Central Station

Theatrical release poster

Portuguese| Central do Brasil
Directed by| Walter Salles
Screenplay by|

* João Emanuel Carneiro
* Marcos Bernstein

Story by| Walter Salles
Produced by|

* Arthur Cohn
* Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre

Starring|

* Fernanda Montenegro
* Marília Pêra
* Vinícius de Oliveira

Cinematography| Walter Carvalho
Edited by|

* Isabelle Rathery
* Felipe Lacerda

Music by|

* Antônio Pinto
* Jaques Morelenbaum

Production
companies

* VideoFilmes
* Riofilme
* MACT Productions
* E.S.R. Films L.T.D.
* Cinematográfica Superfilmes

Distributed by|

* Riofilme (Brazil)
* Mars Distribution (France)

Release dates

* 16 January 1998 (1998-01-16) (Switzerland)
* 3 April 1998 (1998-04-03) (Brazil)
* 2 December 1998 (1998-12-02) (France)

Running time

| 113 minutes
Countries|

* Brazil[1]
* France[1]

Language| Portuguese
Budget| $2.9 million[2]
Box office| $22 million[3]

Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 Brazilian-French road drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein, based on an original idea by Salles. It stars Fernanda Montenegro, Marília Pêra and Vinícius de Oliveira. The film tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman.

Central Station premiered in Switzerland on 16 January 1998, in Brazil on 3 April, and in France on 2 December. The film received critical acclaim, with Montenegro's performance earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (becoming the first Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the lead actress category on both awards), while the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the Golden Bear of the Berlin International Film Festival.[4]

In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted Central Station the 11th greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films.[5]

## Plot

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Estação Central do Brasil, the most famous and important railway station in Brazil. Also served as the setting and title of the famous film.

Dora is a retired schoolteacher who works at Rio de Janeiro's Central Station, writing letters for illiterate customers to earn a living. Embittered by life, she usually shows a lack of patience with customers and sometimes does not mail the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or even tearing them up instead. One of her customers is the mother of Josué, a poor 9-year-old boy who hopes to meet his unknown father someday. When she is killed in a bus accident just outside the train station, and Josué is left homeless, Dora feels compelled to take him in. She trafficks him to a corrupt couple but later steals him back out of guilt.

Initially reluctant to be responsible for the boy, Dora eventually decides to accompany him on a trip to northeastern Brazil in search of his father.

Dora tries to leave Josué on the bus, but he follows her, forgetting his backpack containing Dora's money. Penniless, they are picked up by a kind, evangelical truck driver who abandons them when Dora encourages him to drink beer and then grows too friendly. Dora trades her watch for a ride to "Bom Jesus do Norte" (a fictionalized version of Cruzeiro do Nordeste,[6] a district of Sertânia, Pernambuco). They find Josué's father's address in Bom Jesus, but he is gone; the current residents say he won a house in a lottery and moved to the new settlements. With no money, Josué saves them from destitution by suggesting Dora write letters for visitors arriving in Bom Jesus for a massive pilgrimage.

They take the bus to the settlements, but when they locate the address they have for Josué's father, the residents tell them he no longer lives there; they say he has disappeared. Josué tells Dora that he will wait for him, but Dora invites him to live with her. She calls her friend Irene in Rio and asks her to sell her refrigerator, sofa, and television. She says that she will call when she gets settled somewhere. After she hangs up, she learns there are no buses leaving until the next morning.

Isaías, one of Josué's half-brothers, is working on a roof next to the bus stop and learns that they are looking for his father, insisting Dora and Josué come to dinner. They return to his house and meet Moisés, Josué's other half-brother. Later, Isaías explains to Dora that their father Jesus married Ana (who he doesn't know is Josué's mother) after their mother died, and that nine years ago, while pregnant, Ana left him to live in Rio and never returned. Isaías asks Dora to read a letter that his father wrote to Ana when he disappeared, six months ago, in case she returned. In the letter, the boys' father explains that he has gone to Rio to find Ana and the son he never met. He promises to return, asks her to wait for him, and says they can all be together—himself, Ana, Isaías, and Moisés. Dora pauses, looks at Josué, and says, "and Josué, whom I can't wait to meet." Isaías and Josué are sure their father will return, but Moisés does not believe it. It is later implied that the letter was actually written by Ana to Jesus; the brothers, being illiterate, did not realize this, and Dora pretended to read a letter from their father to comfort them.

The next morning, while they sleep, Dora sneaks out to catch the bus to Rio. She first leaves behind the letter from Jesus and the one from Ana - the one Dora carried with her from the Central Station but never mailed, expressing Ana's wish for the family to be reunited. Josué wakes up too late to prevent her departure. Dora writes a letter to Josué on the bus. Both are left with the photos they had taken to remember one another.

## Cast

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* Fernanda Montenegro as Isadora "Dora" Teixeira
* Vinícius de Oliveira as Josué Fontenele de Paiva
* Marília Pêra as Irene
* Soia Lira as Ana Fontenele
* Othon Bastos as César
* Otávio Augusto as Pedrão
* Stela Freitas as Yolanda
* Matheus Nachtergaele as Isaías Paiva
* Caio Junqueira as Moisés Paiva

## Production

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Being a co-production between Brazil and France, the film was chosen by the French Ministry of Culture to receive resources of Fonds Sud Cinema, for their funding.[7]

## Release

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Central Station had its world premiere at a regional film festival in Switzerland on 16 January 1998. It was then screened at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 1998 and at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival on 14 February 1998. Shortly after its Sundance premiere, Miramax Films acquired distribution rights to the film in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Central and South America (except Brazil), Africa, Eastern Europe, Greece and the Middle East for $1.2 million. Miramax reportedly bid higher for a worldwide rights deal; this deal would not go through, making way for Sony Pictures Classics to acquire U.S. distribution rights for $500,000 prior to the Sundance premiere.[8] The film was released in Brazil on 3 April 1998 in 36 theaters.[3]

## Reception

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### Box office

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The film grossed R$7.7 million (US$4.3 million) from 1.6 million admissions in Brazil, the highest-grossing Brazilian film released during the year.[3][9]

It was the highest-grossing Brazilian film in the United States with a gross of $6.5 million,[3][10] surpassing the $3 million earned by the 1976 film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.[11] It was surpassed by the 2002 film City of God which grossed $7.5 million.[12] It grossed US$11.7 million in the rest of the world for a worldwide total of US$22,462,500.[3]

### Critical response

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The film received critical acclaim. Central Station has an approval rating of 94% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 50 reviews, and an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Director Salles transcends road-movie clichés and crafts a film that is as moving as it is universal".[13] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.[14]

The film was a New York Times Critics' Pick: according to Janet Maslin, "Mr. Salles directs simply and watchfully, with an eye that seems to penetrate all the characters"; the film features a "bravura performance by the Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro."[15] According to Richard Schickel, the film is "an odyssey of simple problems, simple emotional discoveries, [and] a relationship full of knots that Salles permits to unwind in an unforced, unsentimental fashion. His imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting.[16] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a grade of A–, concluding "In outline, Central Station recalls many of the bogusly sticky adult–kid bonding tales that have been the bane of foreign cinema for too long, but Salles, like De Sica and Renoir, displays a pure and unpatronizing feel for the poetry of broken lives. His movie is really about that most everyday of miracles: the rebirth of hope." [17]

The film is ranked No. 57 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010.[18]

### Accolades

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Year  | Awards  | Category  | Nominee(s)  | Result

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1999 | 71st Academy Awards | Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film | Brazil | Nominated
56th Golden Globe Awards | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominated
Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
14th Independent Spirit Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Nominated
52nd British Academy Film Awards | Best Film Not in the English Language | Central Station | Won
24th César Awards | Best Foreign Film | Central Station | Nominated
São Paulo Association of Art Critics | Best Film | Central Station | Won
Best Director | Walter Salles | Won
Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Won
1998 | Golden Satellite Awards | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominated
Best Original Screenplay | João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein | Nominated
48th Berlin International Film Festival | Golden Bear | Central Station | Won
Silver Bear for Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Won
National Board of Review | Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Won
Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Won
New York Film Critics Circle | Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | 2nd Place
Havana Film Festival | Best Film | Central Station | Won
Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Won
Association of Film Critics Spain | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
Association of Film Critics in Poland | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
National Association of Italian Critic | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Won
Sundance Film Festival | Best Screenplay | João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein | Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival | Audience Award | Central Station | Won
Association of Film Critics of Rio de Janeiro | Film of the Year | Central Station | Won

## See also

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* List of submissions to the 71st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
* List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

## References

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1. ^ a b McCarthy, Todd (8 February 1998). "Central Station". Variety. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
2. ^ "Central do Brasil (1998) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
3. ^ a b c d e "A comercialização de um filme internacional: Central do Brasil". Asaeca.org (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
4. ^ "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
5. ^ "Abraccine organiza ranking dos 100 melhores filmes brasileiros". Abraccine - Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema (in Portuguese). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
6. ^ "Central do Brasil". Archived from the original on 14 September 2016.; "Pater / Patria: Central Station and the Search for Identity in Post-Collor Brazil".
7. ^ "Cinemateca Nacional: Central do Brasil (1998)". Cinemateca Brasileira. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
8. ^ Hindes, Andrew (21 January 1998). "Brazil pic tangos". Variety. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
9. ^ Peter Cowie, ed. (1999). The Variety Almanac 1999. Boxtree Ltd. p. 49\. ISBN 0-7522-2454-9.
10. ^ Central Station at Box Office Mojo
11. ^ "Pix from afar: National bests in the U.S.". Variety. 7 January 1991. p. 86.
12. ^ City of God at Box Office Mojo
13. ^ "Central Station". Rotten Tomatoes.
14. ^ "Central Station". Metacritic.
15. ^ Maslin, Janet (20 November 1998). "A Journey of Hope and Self-Discovery for Two Hard-Bitten Souls". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
16. ^ Schickel, Richard (14 December 1998). "Central Station". Time. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
17. ^ Gleiberman, Owen (11 December 1998). "Central Station". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
18. ^ "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema | 57. Central Station". Empire. Archived from the original on 2 December 2011.

## External links

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* Official website
* Central Station at IMDb
* Central Station at Box Office Mojo
* Central Station at Rotten Tomatoes
* Brazilian Director Walter Salles talks about his career on YouTube

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* t
* e

Films directed by Walter Salles

* A Grande Arte (1991)
* Foreign Land (1995)
* Central Station (1998)
* Midnight (1998)
* Behind the Sun (2001)
* The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
* Dark Water (2005)
* Linha de Passe (2008)
* On the Road (2012)
* I'm Still Here (2024)

Awards for Central Station

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* t
* e

APCA Award for Best Film

1972—1979|

* Os Inconfidentes (1973)
* Cassy Jones, o Magnífico Sedutor (1974)
* O Anjo da Noite (1975)
* Relatório de um Homem Casado (1976)
* O Predileto (1977)
* O Seminarista (1978)
* Mar de Rosas (1979)

1980—1986|

* A Volta do Filho Pródigo (1981)
* Eros, o Deus do Amor (1982)
* O Olho Mágico do Amor (1983)
* Sergeant Getulio (1984)
* Memoirs of Prison (1985)
* Avaete, Seed of Revenge (1986)

1990—1999|

* Festa (1990)
* Corpo em Delito (1991)
* Stelinha (1992)
* Conterrâneos Velhos de Guerra (1994)
* Alma Corsária (1995)
* No Rio Amazonas (1996)
* How Angels Are Born (1997)
* A Ostra e o Vento (1998)
* Central Station (1999)

2000—2009|

* Santo Forte (2000)
* Cronicamente Inviável (2001)
* Brainstorm (2002)
* O Invasor (2003)
* The Man Who Copied (2004)
* Entreatos / Peões (2005)
* Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2006)
* Suely in the Sky (2007)
* Linha de Passe / Serras da Desordem (2008)
* A Festa da Menina Morta (2009)

2010—present|

* Antes Que o Mundo Acabe (2010)
* Bróder (2011)
* Febre do Rato (2012)
* Neighboring Sounds (2013)
* Futuro Beach (2014)
* The Second Mother (2015)
* Aquarius (2016)
* Body Electric (2017)
* Araby (2018)
* Bacurau (2019)

There was no award in 1987, 1988, 1989.

* v
* t
* e

BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language

Best Foreign
Language Film
1982–1987|

* Christ Stopped at Eboli (1982)
* Danton (1983)
* Carmen (1984)
* Colonel Redl (1985)
* Ran (1986)
* The Sacrifice (1987)

Best Film Not in the
English Language
1988–present|

* Babette's Feast (1988)
* Life and Nothing But (1989)
* Cinema Paradiso (1990)
* The Nasty Girl (1991)
* Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
* Farewell My Concubine (1993)
* To Live (1994)
* Il Postino: The Postman (1995)
* Ridicule (1996)
* The Apartment (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* All About My Mother (1999)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* Amores perros (2001)
* Talk to Her (2002)
* In This World (2003)
* The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
* The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
* Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
* The Lives of Others (2007)
* I've Loved You So Long (2008)
* A Prophet (2009)
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
* The Skin I Live In (2011)
* Amour (2012)
* The Great Beauty (2013)
* Ida (2014)
* Wild Tales (2015)
* Son of Saul (2016)
* The Handmaiden (2017)
* Roma (2018)
* Parasite (2019)
* Another Round (2020)
* Drive My Car (2021)
* All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
* The Zone of Interest (2023)
* Emilia Pérez (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear

1951–1975|

* Cinderella (1951)
* Four in a Jeep (1951)
* In Beaver Valley (1951)
* Justice Is Done (1951)
* Without Leaving an Address (1951)
* One Summer of Happiness (1952)
* The Wages of Fear (1953)
* Hobson's Choice (1954)
* Die Ratten (1955)
* Invitation to the Dance (1956)
* 12 Angry Men (1957)
* Wild Strawberries (1958)
* Les Cousins (1959)
* El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
* La Notte (1961)
* A Kind of Loving (1962)
* Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
* To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
* Dry Summer (1964)
* Alphaville (1965)
* Cul-de-sac (1966)
* The Departure (1967)
* Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
* Early Works (1969)
* The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
* The Canterbury Tales (1972)
* Distant Thunder (1973)
* The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
* Adoption (1975)

1976–2000|

* Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
* The Ascent (1977)
* Ascensor (1978)
* Las truchas (1978)
* What Max Said (1978)
* David (1979)
* Heartland (1980)
* Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
* Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
* Veronika Voss (1982)
* Ascendancy (1983)
* La colmena (1983)
* Love Streams (1984)
* Wetherby (1985)
* The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
* Stammheim (1986)
* The Theme (1987)
* Red Sorghum (1988)
* Rain Man (1989)
* Larks on a String (1990)
* Music Box (1990)
* The House of Smiles (1991)
* Grand Canyon (1992)
* The Wedding Banquet (1993)
* Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
* In the Name of the Father (1994)
* The Bait (1995)
* Sense and Sensibility (1996)
* The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* The Thin Red Line (1999)
* Magnolia (2000)

2001–present|

* Intimacy (2001)
* Bloody Sunday (2002)
* Spirited Away (2002)
* In This World (2003)
* Head-On (2004)
* U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
* Grbavica (2006)
* Tuya's Marriage (2007)
* Elite Squad (2008)
* The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
* Honey (2010)
* A Separation (2011)
* Caesar Must Die (2012)
* Child's Pose (2013)
* Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
* Taxi (2015)
* Fire at Sea (2016)
* On Body and Soul (2017)
* Touch Me Not (2018)
* Synonyms (2019)
* There Is No Evil (2020)
* Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
* Alcarràs (2022)
* On the Adamant (2023)
* Dahomey (2024)
* Dreams (Sex Love) (2025)

* v
* t
* e

Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Foreign Film – Foreign Language
1949–1972|

* Bicycle Thieves (1949)
* Genevieve / The Lady of the Camelias / No Way Back / Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
* Children, Mother, and the General / Dangerous Curves / Eyes of Children / Ordet / Stella (1955)
* Before Sundown / A Girl in Black / Roses on the Arm / War and Peace / The White Reindeer (1956)
* Confessions of Felix Krull / Tizoc / Yellow Crow (1957)
* Girl and the River / The Road a Year Long / Rosemary (1958)
* Aren't We Wonderful? / Black Orpheus / The Bridge / Odd Obsession / Wild Strawberries (1959)
* The Truth / The Virgin Spring (1960)
* Two Women (1961)
* Divorce Italian Style (1962)
* Any Number Can Win (1963)
* Marriage Italian Style (1964)
* Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
* A Man and a Woman (1966)
* Live for Life (1967)
* War and Peace (1968)
* Z (1969)
* Rider on the Rain (1970)
* The Policeman (1971)
* The Emigrants / The New Land (1972)

Foreign Film
1973–1985|

* The Pedestrian (1973)
* Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
* Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
* Face to Face (1976)
* A Special Day (1977)
* Autumn Sonata (1978)
* La Cage aux Folles (1979)
* Tess (1980)
* Chariots of Fire (1981)
* Gandhi (1982)
* Fanny and Alexander (1983)
* A Passage to India (1984)
* The Official Story (1985)

Foreign Language Film
1986–2020|

* The Assault (1986)
* My Life as a Dog (1987)
* Pelle the Conqueror (1988)
* Cinema Paradiso (1989)
* Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
* Europa Europa (1991)
* Indochine (1992)
* Farewell My Concubine (1993)
* Farinelli (1994)
* Les Misérables (1995)
* Kolya (1996)
* Ma vie en rose (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* All About My Mother (1999)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* No Man's Land (2001)
* Talk to Her (2002)
* Osama (2003)
* The Sea Inside (2004)
* Paradise Now (2005)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
* Waltz with Bashir (2008)
* The White Ribbon (2009)
* In a Better World (2010)
* A Separation (2011)
* Amour (2012)
* The Great Beauty (2013)
* Leviathan (2014)
* Son of Saul (2015)
* Elle (2016)
* In the Fade (2017)
* Roma (2018)
* Parasite (2019)
* Minari (2020)

Non-English Language Film
2021–present|

* Drive My Car (2021)
* Argentina, 1985 (2022)
* Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
* Emilia Pérez (2024)

* v
* t
* e

National Board of Review Award for Best International Film

1934–1950|

* Man of Aran (1934)
* No Award (1935)
* Carnival in Flanders (1936)
* The Eternal Mask (1937)
* La Grande Illusion (1938)
* Port of Shadows (1939)
* The Baker's Wife (1940)
* Pépé le Moko (1941)
* No Award (1942–1949)
* The Titan (1950)

1951–1975|

* Rashomon (1951)
* The Sound Barrier (1952)
* A Queen Is Crowned (1953)
* Romeo and Juliet (1954)
* The Prisoner (1955)
* The Silent World (1956)
* Ordet (1957)
* Pather Panchali (1958)
* Wild Strawberries (1959)
* The World of Apu (1960)
* Die Brücke (1961)
* Sundays and Cybèle (1962)
* 8½ (1963)
* World Without Sun (1964)
* Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
* The Sleeping Car Murders (1966)
* Elvira Madigan (1967)
* War and Peace (1968)
* Shame (1969)
* The Wild Child (1970)
* Claire's Knee (1971)
* The Sorrow and the Pity (1972)
* Cries and Whispers (1973)
* Amarcord (1974)
* The Story of Adele H. (1975)

1976–2000|

* The Marquise of O (1976)
* That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
* Autumn Sonata (1978)
* La Cage aux Folles (1979)
* The Tin Drum (1980)
* A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1981)
* Mephisto (1982)
* Fanny and Alexander (1983)
* A Sunday in the Country (1984)
* Ran (1985)
* Otello (1986)
* Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources (1987)
* Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
* Story of Women (1989)
* Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
* Europa Europa (1991)
* Indochine (1992)
* Farewell My Concubine (1993)
* Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
* Shanghai Triad (1995)
* Ridicule (1996)
* Shall We Dance? (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* All About My Mother (1999)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

2001–present|

* Amores perros (2001)
* Talk to Her (2002)
* The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
* The Sea Inside (2004)
* Paradise Now (2005)
* Volver (2006)
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
* Mongol (2008)
* A Prophet (2009)
* Of Gods and Men (2010)
* A Separation (2011)
* Amour (2012)
* The Past (2013)
* Wild Tales (2014)
* Son of Saul (2015)
* The Salesman (2016)
* Foxtrot (2017)
* Cold War (2018)
* Parasite (2019)
* La Llorona (2020)
* A Hero (2021)
* Close (2022)
* Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
* The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

* v
* t
* e

Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film

* Breaking the Waves (1996)
* Shall We Dance? (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* All About My Mother / Three Seasons (1999)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
* No Man's Land (2001)
* Talk to Her (2002)
* City of God (2003)
* The Sea Inside (2004)
* Mother of Mine (2005)
* Volver (2006)
* Lust, Caution (2007)
* Gomorrah (2008)
* Broken Embraces / The Maid (2009)
* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
* Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)
* The Intouchables / Pietà (2012)
* The Broken Circle Breakdown (2013)
* Tangerines (2014)
* Son of Saul (2015)
* The Salesman (2016)
* In the Fade (2017)
* Roma (2018)
* Truth and Justice (2019)
* La Llorona (2020)
* Drive My Car (2021)
* Argentina, 1985 (2022)
* The Zone of Interest (2023)
* Waves (2024)

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* e

Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

1960—1999|

* Death Commands Brigandage (1960)
* Keeper of Promises (1962)
* Black God, White Devil (1964)
* São Paulo Incorporated (1965)
* Case of the Naves Brothers (1967)
* The Amorous Ones (1968)
* Antonio das Mortes (1969)
* Mortal Sin (1970)
* Pra Quem Fica, Tchau (1971)
* How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1972)
* John, the Knife and the River (1973)
* The Scarecrow's Night (1974)
* Ogum's Amulet (1975)
* Xica (1976)
* Tent of Miracles (1977)
* The Lyre of Delight (1978)
* Bye Bye Brazil (1979)
* Pixote (1980)
* Memoirs of Prison (1984)
* Hour of the Star (1986)
* Subway to the Stars (1987)
* The Story of Fausta (1988)
* Better Days Ahead (1989)
* Exposure (1991)
* O Quatrilho (1995)
* Tieta of Agreste (1996)
* Four Days in September (1997)
* Central Station (1998)
* Orfeu (1999)

2000—present|

* Me, You, Them (2000)
* Behind the Sun (2001)
* City of God (2002)
* Carandiru (2003)
* Olga (2004)
* Two Sons of Francisco (2005)
* Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2006)
* The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2007)
* Last Stop 174 (2008)
* Time of Fear (2009)
* Lula, Son of Brazil (2010)
* Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2011)
* The Clown (2012)
* Neighboring Sounds (2013)
* The Way He Looks (2014)
* The Second Mother (2015)
* Little Secret (2016)
* Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017)
* The Great Mystical Circus (2018)
* The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019)
* Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
* Private Desert (2021)
* Mars One (2022)
* Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
* I'm Still Here (2024)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States

Other|

* IdRef

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