Ruy Polanah Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn't pay much...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...