Cast: Ruy Polanah

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Ruy Polanah. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Guns

1963 · Movie · 114 min. · Brazil

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Átila Iório · Nelson Xavier · Maria Gladys · Leonidas Bayer

Plot In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.

7.1

33 votes

7.1

33 votes

Cobrador, In God We Trust

2006 · Movie · 90 min. · Mexico

Direction Paul Leduc

Cast Peter Fonda · Lázaro Ramos · Milton Gonçalves · Antonella Costa

Plot 1) globalization of violence, violence of globalization? 2) serial killers, social killers? 3) a mine in brazil some murders in new york others in miami how are they connected? 4)...

5.0

154 votes

5.0

154 votes

Journey to the End of the Night

2006 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Eric Eason

Cast Brendan Fraser · Mos Def · Scott Glenn · Alice Braga

Plot One of the most dangerous cities in the world is São Paulo, Brazil. It's in the city's underworld of sex, drugs, money, and corruption that a father and son plan...

4.7

346 votes

4.7

346 votes

A Deusa Negra

1979 · Movie · 95 min. · Nigeria

Direction Ola Balogun

Cast Jorge Coutinho · Sonia Santos · Zózimo Bulbul · Lea Garcia

Plot 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 warfare fanned by overseas slave...

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Índia, a Filha do Sol

1982 · Movie · 85 min. · Brazil

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Sebastião Vasconcelos · Ruy Polanah · Pedro Paulo Rangel · Flávio São Thiago

Plot A white man finds a beautiful Indian in a diamond extraction site in the State of Goiás, Brazil, and falls in love.

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Gods and the Dead

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · Brazil

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Norma Bengell · Othon Bastos · Ítala Nandi · Nelson Xavier

Plot In the 1930's, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who had already been shot 7 times, gets involved in the battle...

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Amazon

1990 · Movie · 96 min. · Finland

Direction Mika Kaurismäki

Cast Kari Väänänen · Robert Davi · Rae Dawn Chong · Minna Sovio

Plot Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but...

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Bar esperança, o ultimo que fecha

1982 · Movie · 127 min. · Brazil

Direction Hugo Carvana

Cast Marilia Pêra · Hugo Carvana · Paulo César Peréio · Silvia Bandeira

Plot Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists,...

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Anchieta, José do Brasil

1977 · Movie · 150 min. · Brazil

Direction Paulo Cesar Saraceni

Cast Ney Latorraca · Luiz Linhares · Maurício do Valle · Joel Barcellos

Plot Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and Indians.

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Luzia Homem

1988 · Movie · 105 min. · Brazil

Direction Fábio Barreto

Cast Claudia Ohana · José De Abreu · Thales Pan Chacon · Luiza Falcão

Plot In Brazil's northeast, marauders from a big ranch raid a tannery and kill a girl's parents. Fifteen years later, the girl, Luzia, is a talented vacera who shows up at...

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