Fernanda Montenegro

Brazilian actress of theater, telenovelas, and cinema

October 16, 1929 (94 years old)

in theaters on my screens

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

V.O.: A Vida Invisivel de Euridice Gusmao

Br. 2019. Chronicle by Karim Aïnouz with Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler, Antonio Fonseca. A series of dramatic events and lies separate two sisters on the verge of adulthood, who grew up in a conservative family in Rio de Janeiro.

Runtime: 139 min.

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Love in the Time of Cholera

U.S. 2007. Sentimental drama by Mike Newell with Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt. The woman he loves madly having married a rich doctor, a modest postal worker multiplies his conquests while waiting for fate to reunite them.

Runtime: 138 min.

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House of Sand

V.O.: Casa de areia

Br. 2005. Chronicle by Andrucha Waddington with Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra. In 1910, a pregnant woman and her mother, abandoned in the middle of the Maranhao desert, learn to be isolated and to wait, against their will.

Runtime: 103 min.

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L'Autre Côté de la rue

V.O.: O Outro Lado da Rua

Br. 2004. Dramatic comedy by Marcos Bernstein with Fernanda Montenegro, Raul Cortez, Laura Cardoso. A 60-year-old woman investigates a neighbor she suspects killed his wife, but falls in love with him.

Runtime: 98 min.

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Central Station

V.O.: Central do Brasil

Br. 1998. Psychological drama by Walter Salles with Fernanda Montenegro, Vinicius de Oliveira, Maria Péra. A cynical public writer takes a poor kid to his father's house on the other side of Brazil.

Runtime: 110 min.