Ruy Polanah
Birthday: 1922-01-01
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
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Journey to the End of the Night
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel....
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Kuarup
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 an...
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Insônia
A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos....
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Il barbiere di Rio
Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing ...
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Of Gods and the Undead
In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has...
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The Guns
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck p...
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Índia, a Filha do Sol
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undis...
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Luzia Homem
After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving l...
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Cobrador: In God We Trust
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where t...
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Land
The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The ...
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Feminino Plural
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil....
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Sagarana: O Duelo
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the le...
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Quilombo
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. Thi...
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A Dança dos Bonecos
Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the a...
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Anchieta, José do Brasil
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indi...
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Noites do Sertão
The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who...
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Tummy
A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with ...
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Joanna Francesa
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will le...
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After Eight... Forever
Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affa...
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Sweet Thieves
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decide...
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In Evil Hour
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of ...
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Mar Corrente
Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She re...
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Cristais de Sangue
Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with...
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The Emerald Forest
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from ...
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O Cortiço
This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters with...
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Black Goddess
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole ...
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Un animal doué de déraison
A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, bu...
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South Am...
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Ganga Zumba
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian ...
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Tainá 2 - A New Amazon Adventure
The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from t...
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Tainá: An Amazon Adventure
A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman...
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Fish in a Barrel
Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, w...
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Branded For Life
A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on th...
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Bar Esperanza
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro....
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The Fifth Monkey
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucinat...
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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in ...
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The Dolphin
According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village rec...
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No Coração dos Deuses
Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure fr...
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Malandro
In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel ...
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Tragic Jungle
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who ...
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Jorge, Um Brasileiro
After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the ...
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Orfeu
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when...
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Eclipse
The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, durin...
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Running Out of Luck
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number ...
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