Guará Rodrigues

Guará Rodrigues

Birthday: 1943-01-01

Place of Birth: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Biography: Guaracy Rodrigues, known as Guará (Belo Horizonte, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 2006) was a Brazilian actor, art director and film director. Known for his small roles and cameos throughout his more than 40 years as an actor, he is considered one of the most important figures in the history of marginal cinema.

Movies

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

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

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A Werewolf in the Amazon
A Werewolf in the Amazon

In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Ama...

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Moon Over Parador
Moon Over Parador

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the...

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Baron Olavo, The Horrible
Baron Olavo, The Horrible

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing s...

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O Quadrado de Joana
O Quadrado de Joana

Slowly we recognize traces of a couple's history. Joana, living isolated in an apartment between boo...

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The Brazilwood Man
The Brazilwood Man

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernis...

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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills h...

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Razor in the Flesh
Razor in the Flesh

The story of three characters in a brothel room: the prostitute Neusa Sueli, the gigolo Vado and the...

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The Hullabaloo Family
The Hullabaloo Family

A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile a...

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The Seven Kittens
The Seven Kittens

Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their four ...

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Sermões
Sermões

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador,...

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A Hora Vagabunda
A Hora Vagabunda

A day in the life of a young man who aspires to be a filmmaker in Belo Horizonte. He is aware that t...

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Garden of War
Garden of War

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he...

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Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the...

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Crazy Love
Crazy Love

Bressane's second London film, shot in six days in his apartment. "I had seen the French avant-garde...

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Brás Cubas
Brás Cubas

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

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Louco Por Cinema
Louco Por Cinema

Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a...

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Macunaima
Macunaima

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transfo...

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Oswaldianas
Oswaldianas

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

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Curra Urbana
Curra Urbana

At same time as it dives into excess and violence of Brazilian reality, Curra Urbana tri to insert i...

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Areias Escaldantes
Areias Escaldantes

In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnapp...

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A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso
A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso

Aroeiras is a fictional city in the northeastern interior of Brazil where Genésio lives. Old, widowe...

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The Adventures of a Paraíba
The Adventures of a Paraíba

Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturall...

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Scent of Gardenias
Scent of Gardenias

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he f...

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Oceano Atlantis
Oceano Atlantis

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the aspha...

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Dedé Mamata
Dedé Mamata

Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are mem...

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The Sign of Chaos
The Sign of Chaos

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Bra...

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Boom Shankar – O Filme Perdido do Guará
Boom Shankar – O Filme Perdido do Guará

1972. A Kombi travels from Amsterdam to Goa, India. This journey is the raw material for Boom Shanka...

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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to his...

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The Mandarin
The Mandarin

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works...

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Dib
Dib

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, co...

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Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla....

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Para Viver Um Grande Amor
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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Tabu
Tabu

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine ...

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No Way, Spider
No Way, Spider

Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his t...

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King of the Cards
King of the Cards

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film...

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The Agony
The Agony

Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel o...

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On Borrowed Time
On Borrowed Time

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

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It's Not All True
It's Not All True

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

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Noite
Noite

Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of pol...

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Samba Chanson
Samba Chanson

Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and...

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Cleopatra
Cleopatra

The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The stra...

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Copacabana Mon Amour
Copacabana Mon Amour

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She...

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Um Filme 100% Brasileiro
Um Filme 100% Brasileiro

French poet Blaise Cendrars arrives by sea on the city of Rio de Janeiro and lives s life of bohemia...

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Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
Killed the Family and Went to the Movies

A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them wi...

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Rio Babilonia
Rio Babilonia

A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro...

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Madrepérola
Madrepérola

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

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Perigo Negro
Perigo Negro

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Osw...

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Anchieta, José do Brasil
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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A Miss e o Dinossauro
A Miss e o Dinossauro

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

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I Love You
I Love You

After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense re...

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Beduíno
Beduíno

A curious couple, whose existence takes place where art arises along a singular metaphysical desire....

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Watch Out, Madame
Watch Out, Madame

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

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The Angel Was Born
The Angel Was Born

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mys...

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Uma Vida Dividida
Uma Vida Dividida

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