Bella

2006

Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 64 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 11235 11.2K

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Director

Alejandro Monteverde Photo
Alejandro Monteverde

Top cast

Manny Perez Photo
Manny Perez as Manny
Armando Riesco Photo
Armando Riesco as Francisco
Tammy Blanchard Photo
Tammy Blanchard as Nina
Peter Bucossi Photo
Peter Bucossi as Angry Driver
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843.29 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 4
1.53 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 8 / 10

A Sweet Tale That Should Appeal To Many, Especially Women

I thought this was a surprisingly-good "chick flick" until the final 15 minutes when it got ultra-weeping "Lifetime Network" on us, but overall is a film which should appeal to a lot of people. Yes, it's pure melodrama but: ladies, it's so well done that it should keep your husband or boyfriend interested most of the way.This also is beautifully photographed. Man, for a small-budget independent film with basically no-name actors, this has all the visual slickness of a Spielberg film. Also, the food in here looks so good it will have you salivating.The main ingredient in this award-winning film is "charm," I would think. Everyone is pretty likable, there's a lot of emotion and the characters are very realistic. If you elaborated on the story, it might sound extremely boring because mainly it's a day in the life of two people. They both work in a restaurant and she gets fired for being late again and he goes after her to see if she's okay. As the day goes on, the two work out past traumas with the ending being a tear-jerker feel-good one.For a film in which most viewers probably aren't familiar with the director or the actors, it is impressive. What's odd about this film, in addition to being interesting despite almost nothing going on, is that there is absolutely no profanity or sex, either. I suppose some could look at this movie as some sappy do-gooder type story, but it isn't. It's so professionally done that you kind of feel like a fly on the wall, content to just observing and being a part of these people's lives for a day.
Reviewed by guzzytoff 7 / 10

I saw a sneak-peak and I think everyone should see Bella.

I had the privilege of catching a sneak-peak of Bella before it won the Tronto Film Festival, followed by a Q&A with the director and some of the cast members. I cannot stress how very humble and real they all are. As for the film, being from the Midwest, I've watched TV all my life. Flipping channels it's funny how you stumble across films that you don't think anyone has ever heard of; but later you grow to realize that that one film, that one film you watched late one Thursday night, made such a difference in the way you chose to carry yourself through life that you became a part of it, and it a part of you. You don't know why, but for some reason, you just needed to see it: Bella is that film.
Reviewed by markusws 8 / 10

Touching film about family, culture, and redemption

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