Guará Rodrigues Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adelaide Chiozzo

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Paul Naschy

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rodolfo Arena

Slowly we recognize traces of a couple's history. Joana, living isolated in an apartment between books and mysteries searching for an "ideal world"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renata Otto

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ítala Nandi

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cláudia Raia

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the homosexual Veludo speak of their lives and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Fischer

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Ignez

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Antônio Fagundes

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Othon Bastos

A day in the life of a young man who aspires to be a filmmaker in Belo Horizonte. He is aware that there are many obstacle to shooting and the city...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: André Brasil

Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Barcellos

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guará Rodrigues

Bressane's second London film, shot in six days in his apartment. "I had seen the French avant-garde films of the 1920's and naturally the title...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guará Rodrigues

Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights...

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Cast: Nuno Leal Maia

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

At same time as it dives into excess and violence of Brazilian reality, Curra Urbana tri to insert itself in anti ilusionist modern aesthetic...

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Cast: Guará Rodrigues

In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Regina Casé

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Cast: Emmanuel Cavalcanti

Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Caíque Ferreira

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Christiane Torloni

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Antônio Abujamra

Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Guilherme Fontes

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otávio Terceiro

1972. A Kombi travels from Amsterdam to Goa, India. This journey is the raw material for Boom Shankar, the only film directed by Guará...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Guará Rodrigues

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Júlio Bressane

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner...

Genre: History

Cast: Fernando Eiras

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dib Lutfi

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rogério Sganzerla

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Djavan

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald...

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Cast: Caetano Veloso

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Loredo

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck",...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grande Otelo

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joel Barcellos

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo José

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arrigo Barnabé

Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paulo César Peréio

Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nivaldo Pedrosa

The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alessandra Negrini

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Ignez

French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemian parties during the celebration of carnaval.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alvaro Apocalipse

A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Márcia Rodrigues

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joel Barcellos

The idiosyncratic adventures of a group of individuals who share the same house.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Guará Rodrigues

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helena Ignez

Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

Genre: History

Cast: Ney Latorraca

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rogério Sganzerla

After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sônia Braga

A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire. They search for it through repeated and varied...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alessandra Negrini

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maria Gladys