Direction: Ruy Guerra

Direction Ruy Guerra

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

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

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Jece Valadão · Daniel Filho · Norma Bengell · Per Aabel

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Sterling Hayden · Susan Strasberg · Maureen McNalley · Andrew Hayden

Synopsis A family of four people (parents and two children, one of them still a kid) live by the sea. The father studies the migratory flights of birds. One day, there appears an escaped prisoner on the shore, trapped just like...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Irene Papas · Claudia Ohana · Michael Lonsdale · Oliver Wehe

Synopsis While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution....

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Julio Adrião · Antônio Alves · Flavio Bauraqui · Candido Damm

Synopsis Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Romao Canapoquele · Filipe Gunoguacala · Mauricio Machimbuco · Baltazar Nchilema

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Leonor Arocha · Alicia Bustamante · Álvaro de Luna

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Leonardo Medeiros · Juliana Carneiro da Cunha · Fábio Sabag · Jean Pierre Noher

Synopsis In an isolated small town overwhelmed by torrential rains, not only the inhabitants live in poverty, but are also harassed by political repression. There is a war for power between the family that holds economic control of the region and...

Direction Ruy Guerra

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

Synopsis 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 for land and cacao plantations

Direction Ruy Guerra · Nelson Xavier

Cast Leonidas Bayer · Carlos Alberto Baía · Hugo Carvana · Murilo de Lima

Synopsis When a construction worker falls to his death due to a deliberate laxness in safety regulations, the construction foreman's son-in-law attempts to get some compensation from the construction company for the man's widow.

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Diego Infante · Cristina Câmara · Henrique Viana · Ana Bustorff

Synopsis Jacinto Pereira Lopes is manager of a major economic and financial group, which the State returned to its former owner. Jacinto is married to Rosa, a poor but ambitious woman, but never forgot Fatima, a beautiful and brilliant daughter of...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Taumaturgo Ferreira · Fernanda Torres · Cláudio Mamberti · Umberto Magnani

Synopsis The main character is a priest who, in the 1950s, was a missionary in the Alto Xingu, who later left the priesthood and became an indigenist who fought against the military regime implanted in 1964.

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Edson Celulari · Claudia Ohana · Elba Ramalho · Fábio Sabag

Synopsis 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 by means of petty swindles. But then he meets Ludmila, the cabaret owner's daughter, who wants...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Julio Adrião · Emílio de Melo · Simone Spoladore · Christiana Ubach

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Jorge Perugorría · Bianca Byington · Leonor Arocha · José Antonio Rodríguez

Synopsis Ruy Guerra's Estorvo (Turbulence), based on a novel by singer/song-writer Chico Buarque, chronicles the existential nightmare of an anonymous first-person character who roams through the streets of a modern city. The setting is Brazil today, the protagonist ("I", Jorge Perugorría)...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Ney Latorraca · Claudia Ohana · Tônia Carrero · Dina Sfat

Synopsis Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.