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Central Station

Central Station

8.1/ 10

TMDB Rating

1,038

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1998

Release Year

111 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

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Keywords

rio de janeiro
letter
wilderness
teacher
orphan
railroad
alcoholic
missing parent
long lost relative
realism
child trafficking
death of parent
road movie
bus station
lost child
unwanted child
truck stop
woman and child
lonely woman
train station
letter writer

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 18, 2025

7
7/10

“Dora” (Fernanda Montenegro) used to be a school teacher, but now she sits at a table in the station in Rio de Janeiro and writes letters for the illiterate traveller for a few réals a time. She thinks little of a woman and her young son who stop by, except perhaps that he isn’t the most trusting of

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