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Walter Salles

Highest Rated: 97% Aquarius (2016)

Lowest Rated: 46% On the Road (2012)

Birthday: Apr 12, 1956

Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

For a director more interested in following his creative intuition than calculating his career, Walter Salles won several awards and international acclaim which helped him earn a reputation as one of Brazil's leading filmmakers. After starting his career directing documentaries in the 1980s, Salles transitioned to narrative filmmaking with "A Grande Arte" (1991) and earned international attention for the socially conscious "Terra Estrangeira" (1995). In collaboration with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, he received Oscar consideration with "Central Station" (1998) and enhanced his reputation as a striking filmmaker with "Behind the Sun" (2001). But it was the widely hailed road movie, "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004) that allowed Salles to gain a foothold in Hollywood proper, leading to directing the remake of the Japanese horror thriller "Dark Water" (2005) and the long-developed adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (2012). As he continued making films in his native Brazil, Salles had broken through in the States, where he continued rising in prominence while making creatively challenging films.

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 78% Aquarius Watchlist
94% 95% Central Station
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91% 97% City of God
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91% I'm Still Here Watchlist 90% 66% Paulina Watchlist
88% Mariner of the Mountains
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86% 84% Paris, je t'aime
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85% The Movie Teller
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83% Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang
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83% 92% The Motorcycle Diaries
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
I'm Still Here 91% 2024 Director, Producer Noah's Ark 2024 Producer The Movie Teller 85% 2023 Writer, Screenwriter Mariner of the Mountains 88% 2021 Producer Homing 2018 Producer Unremember 2018 Producer Where Has the Time Gone 2017 Director Aquarius 97% 78% 2016 Co-Producer Paulina 90% 66% 2015 Producer Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang 83% 2014 Director, Writer On the Road 46% 34% 2012 Director Quincas Berro d'Água 37% 2010 Producer Café de los Maestros 55% 2008 Executive Producer Linha de Passe 77% 72% 2008 Director Love for Sale 75% 61% 2006 Producer Paris, je t'aime 86% 84% 2006 Director, Writer Lower City 60% 57% 2005 Producer Dark Water 47% 28% 2005 Director The Motorcycle Diaries 83% 92% 2004 Director City of God 91% 97% 2002 Executive Producer Madame Satã 60% 81% 2002 Producer Behind the Sun 74% 88% 2001 Director, Writer Central Station 94% 95% 1998 Director, Writer, Producer Midnight 54% 1998 Director, Writer Foreign Land 90% 1995 Director, Screenwriter, Film Editing
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