Ruy Polanah Movies

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Klaus Kinski

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Brendan Fraser

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

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Cast: Taumaturgo Ferreira

A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

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Cast: Nelson Dantas

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diego Abatantuono

In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has already been shot seven times, gets involved in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Bengell

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Átila Iório

A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glória Pires

After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Ohana

Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Fonda

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bebeto Bahia

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriana de Figueiredo

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Joel Barcellos

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Genre: History

Cast: Tony Tornado

Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the assistant, fills a bottle with this magic...

Genre: Family

Cast: Wilson Grey

Genre: Drama

Cast: Francisco Milani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roberto Bonfim

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Cast: Aloísio Magalhães

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

The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cristina Aché

A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with the younger one, he discovers that poachers are...

Genre: Family

Cast: Michael Faustino

Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will let down Pierre, the French consul at São...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Xuxa Lopes

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of a ruthless power struggle. The landowning Assis...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo Medeiros

Genre: Drama

Cast: Odete Lara

Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with Maria, who is facing problems in the family....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Salma Buzzar

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest....

Genre: Action

Cast: Powers Boothe

This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters within a tenement.

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Cast: Betty Faria

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zózimo Bulbul

A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, but a prisoner of her strict education. He then...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Berenger

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from the big city and an indian little girl who...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Eunice Baía

A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Eunice Baía

Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, who force him to share the loot he gets.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Stepan Nercessian

A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Everything...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergio Otero

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marília Pêra

When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Kingsley

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

According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Alberto Riccelli

Genre: Crime

Cast: Cristina Prochaska

Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Antônio Fagundes

In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel exploits a cabaret singer, and earns his living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edson Celulari

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Reginaldo Faria

After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the past and questioning his friendship with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Alberto Riccelli

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toni Garrido

The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matheus Nachtergaele