"Director: Walter Salles"

• The Motorcycle Diaries | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Latino heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal stars as the young Che Guevara in this road movie with a difference.

• The Motorcycle Diaries | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Latino heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal stars as the young Che Guevara in this road movie with a difference.

• Central Station | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In the opening scenes of Central Station, colourful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque road movie that charts Brazil's renaissance in a little boy's search for his father and an old woman's emotional reawakening. When we first meet Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), this frozen-hearted, sour-faced woman is the epitome of immobility: day after day, she sits in the train station selling her letter-writing skills to all comers, but often doesn't bother to mail these precious messages. When a woman who's paid Dora to write a pleading note to her son's long-missing dad gets run over by a bus, the child, Josue (Vinicius de Oliveira), is up for grabs. (The summary execution of a thieving street kid--seen in longshot--underscores the seriousness of this waif's plight.) After an abortive attempt to sell Josue for a new TV, the aspiring couch potato finds herself reluctantly propelled into an occasionally Fellini-esque odyssey through the hinterlands of Brazil's sertäo, where Dora and her sidekick find unexpected faith and family. Former documentary filmmaker Walter Salles (Foreign Land) mixes magic with realism in his appreciation of striking faces and places, but Central Station is primarily fuelled by the tough/tender performances of Montenegro, Brazil's Judi Dench, and de Oliveira, an airport shoeshine boy Salles cast over 1,500 other hopefuls. (Montenegro was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, and Central Station was in the running for Best Foreign Language Film.) No cloyingly cute child-star, de Oliveira plays Josue as a bracingly idiosyncratic brat. And watching Dora's face and soul slowly, unwillingly unclench as she gets back in motion--and emotion--is potent pleasure, even if Salles' trip does dead-end in soap opera as his Brazilian pilgrim's progress winds down. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com

• The Motorcycle Diaries | Blu Ray | (16/06/2009) from £10.92   |  Saving you £9.07 (83.06%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Latino heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal stars as the young Che Guevara in this road movie with a difference.

• On The Road | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a young and dangerously seductive ex-con, they hit it off immediately. Determined not to get trapped in a narrow life, they burn their bridges and hit the road: thirsting for freedom.

• The Motorcycle Diaries | Blu Ray | (06/04/2020) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Let the world change you ... And you can change the world. Based on the journals of both Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) and Ernesto Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal), the man who would become 'Che', The Motorcycle Diaries follows a journey of self-discovery, tracing the origins of a revolutionary heart. With a highly romantic sense of adventure, the two friends leave their familiar surroundings in Buenos Aires on 'The Mighty One' - a rickety 1939 Norton 500. Although the bike breaks down in the course of their eight month journey, they press onward, hitching rides along the way. As they start to see a different Latin America in the people they meet on the road, the diverse geography they encounter begins to reflect their shifting perspectives. They continue to the heights of Machu Picchu, where the majestic ruins and the extraordinary significance of the Inca heritage have a profound impact on the young men. When they arrive at a leper colony deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the two are beginning to question the value of progress as defined by economic systems that leave so many people beyond their reach. Their experiences at the colony awaken within them the men they will later become. Directed by Walter Salles, The Motorcycle Diaries is a beautiful and tender insight into the life of Che Guevara, one of the most memorable and iconic figures of the 20th Century.

• Behind The Sun | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in 1910 this Brazilian drama tells of a young man who begins to question an age-old family feud over the ownership of his family's land, a feud that has already cost his brother his life.

• Dark Water | UMD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

• Dark Water | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £6.82   |  Saving you £9.17 (134.46%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jennifer Connelly headlines and Walter Salles directs this remake of the spooky Japanese flick.

• On The Road | Blu Ray | (25/02/2013) from £13.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.33%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, meets Dean Moriarty, a young and dangerously seductive ex-con, they hit it off immediately. Determined not to get trapped in a narrow life, they burn their bridges and hit the road: thirsting for freedom.

• Linha De Passe | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £6.35   |  Saving you £13.64 (68.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This is a story about four brothers from a poor family who need to fight to follow their dreams as they criss-cross Sao Paulo.

• Behind The Sun | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Set in 1910 this Brazilian drama tells of a young man who begins to question an age-old family feud over the ownership of his family's land, a feud that has already cost his brother his life.

• Foreign Land | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Where love and danger meet After the unexpected death of his mother Paco (Fernando Alves Pinto) an aspiring actor from Sao Paulo longs to leave his native Brazil. Tired of living in squalor he accepts a ""delivery job"" from a shady antique dealer and travels to Lisbon carrying a violin filled with uncut diamonds. But when the exchange goes bad he finds himself on the run from an underworld thug and in the arms of Alex (Fernanda Torres) a beautiful woman caught up in the Portuguese black-market.

• True Inspiration Collection (3 pack) Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (06/09/2010) from £16.98   |  Saving you £15.00 (100.07%)   |  RRP £29.99

  True Inspiration Collection

• Dark Water | Blu Ray | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Jennifer Connelly headlines and Walter Salles directs this remake of the spooky Japanese flick.

• Foreign Land | DVD | (18/02/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £5.50 (55.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Discover an early classic from the director of On the Road and Motorcycle Diaries. Walter Salles is one of cinema's most respected filmmakers; Foreign Land is one of his early works. After the death of his mother, Paco, decides to travel to her place of birth in Portugal and funds his journey by agreeing to smuggle a violing with raw diamonds. Once in Lisbon he finds love and danger in equal measure.

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  True Inspiration Collection

• The Motorcycle Diaries | HD DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1952 a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether if one of the riders departing on that fateful day hadn't been the future insurrectionary figurehead of the Cuban revolution Ernesto Che Guevara (played here by Gael Garcia Bernal). The young Che's companion on the trip was his best friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) with their simple goals being to enjoy themselves and meet some girls along the way. As the trip unfolds at the behest of their spluttering motorcycle the boys discover more about themselves than they ever imagined possible. Ernesto clings tightly to his ideals throughout and delights in the opportunity to put them into practice. His refusal to spend the provided by his girlfriend Chichina Ferreyra (Mia Maestro) constantly angers his travelling companion as the two succumb to pangs of hunger. Ernesto's charitable nature comes to the fore when he reveals that he gave the money to a pair of out-of-work illegal immigrants. The trip winds down as the friends offer their medical expertise to a leper colony in Peru with the duo's youthful folly acquiescing to adulthood and the dawning realization of where they should head in life.