# The best Fernanda Montenegro movies

From They Don't Wear Black Tie and Central Station to A Dog's Will and I'm Still Here: Fernanda Montenegro's best films according to Cinema Sétima Arte, Olhar Digital, Canaltech and AdoroCinema.

- 10 votes · 13 items
- Aug 8, 2025 · otaku_paulista
- https://even.best/en/l/4471/the-best-fernanda-montenegro-movies

## Top 13

1. **Central Station (1998)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Walter Salles. Dora, a letter writer at the train station. Oscar nomination for best actress.
2. **They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Leon Hirszman. Romana, a worker's wife during a strike in São Paulo.
3. **A Dog's Will (2000)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Guel Arraes. Our Lady, the Compassionate, at the final judgement.
4. **I'm Still Here (2024)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Walter Salles. Eunice Paiva in old age. Oscar for best international feature.
5. **The Hour of the Star (1985)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Suzana Amaral. Madame Carlota, the fortune teller, in the Clarice Lispector adaptation.
6. **The Judgment (2019)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Andrucha Waddington. A thriller on a farm haunted by an old debt.
7. **Time and the Wind (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jayme Monjardim. The elderly Bibiana, in the Erico Verissimo adaptation.
8. **Vitória (2025)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Andrucha Waddington. An elderly woman who films drug dealing from her window in Copacabana.
9. **Piedade (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cláudio Assis. Carminha, in a seaside town threatened by an oil company.
10. **Invisible Life (2019)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Karim Aïnouz. The older Eurídice, at the end of the Gusmão sisters' story.
11. **House of Sand (2005)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Andrucha Waddington. Three generations of women in the Maranhão dunes, with Fernanda Torres.
12. **Infância (2015)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Domingos Oliveira. Dona Mocinha, the grandmother who rules the family.
13. **A Dama do Estácio (2012)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Eduardo Ades. A short film about a prostitute who orders her own coffin.

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