Ruy Guerra

Ruy Guerra

Ruy Alexandre Guerra Coelho Pereira (born August 22, 1931) is a Portuguese-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. Guerra was born a Portuguese citizen in Lourenço Marques (today Maputo) in Mozambique, when it was still Portuguese colony. Guerra studied at IDHEC film school in Paris from 1952. In 1958 he started his career as an assistant director in several French films. Later on he immigrated to Brazil, where he directed his first feature film, Os Cafajestes (1962).

  • Title: Ruy Guerra
  • Popularity: 3.842
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1931-08-22
  • Place of Birth: Maputo, Moçambique
  • Homepage: http://www.ruyguerra.com.br
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Ruy Guerra Movies

  • 1972
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    Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    7.5 1972 HD

    A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down...

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  • 2021
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    Tempo Ruy

    Tempo Ruy

    1 2021 HD

    A documentary about the work of filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and film director Ruy Guerra. The audiovisual collage presents the director's...

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  • 2005
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    The House of Sand

    The House of Sand

    6.8 2005 HD

    A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of...

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  • 2016
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    Gabo & Cinema

    Gabo & Cinema

    1 2016 HD

    It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of...

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  • 1971
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    Brazil in Cannes

    Brazil in Cannes

    1 1971 HD

    The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the...

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  • 2023
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    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

    Peréio, Eu Te Odeio!

    8 2023 HD

    23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and...

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  • 2010
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    5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

    5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

    4.7 2010 HD

    The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking...

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  • 1971
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    Le Maître du temps

    Le Maître du temps

    5 1971 HD

    An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.

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  • 2015
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    About Cinema

    About Cinema

    8.3 2015 HD

    An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials...

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  • 2014
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    Blue Blood

    Blue Blood

    5.6 2014 HD

    When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball....

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  • 2022
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    Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

    Quando a Coisa Vira Outra

    1 2022 HD

    Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important...

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  • 1971
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    Benito Cereno

    Benito Cereno

    1 1971 HD

    When Captain Amaso Delano approaches a three-masted ship in distress to offer his assistance, he discovers a most unusual situation: its captain, Don...

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  • 2021
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    Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

    Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

    1 2021 HD

    Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues...

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  • 2015
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    Chico: Brazilian Artist

    Chico: Brazilian Artist

    8.1 2015 HD

    Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and...

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  • 1963
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    The Beggars

    The Beggars

    1 1963 HD

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  • 2016
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    Cinema Novo

    Cinema Novo

    6.696 2016 HD

    A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

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  • 1970
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    Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão

    Retrato Do Artista Com Um 38 Na Mão

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1997
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    Dib

    Dib

    1 1997 HD

    Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of...

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  • 1972
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    The Suns of Easter Island

    The Suns of Easter Island

    6.2 1972 HD

    Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easter Island in hopes to uncover the mystery.

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  • 2017
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    The Man Who Killed John Wayne

    The Man Who Killed John Wayne

    7.5 2017 HD

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  • 1957
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    S.O.S. Noronha

    S.O.S. Noronha

    1 1957 HD

    In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulibaud, head of the aeropostale radio...

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  • 2001
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    A Linguagem do Cinema

    A Linguagem do Cinema

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1977
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    Branded For Life

    Branded For Life

    1 1977 HD

    A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Everything...

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  • 2006
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    Breathless

    Breathless

    1 2006 HD

    French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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  • 2020
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    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    5 2020 HD

    In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

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  • 2017
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    Saudade

    Saudade

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1984
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    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    Os Comprometidos - Actas de um processo de descolonização

    1 1984 HD

    The film deals with the judgment of the so-called "compromised", who integrated the colonial apparatus. At Josina Machel school, in an amphitheater...

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  • 1954
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    Quand Le Soleil Dort

    Quand Le Soleil Dort

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1992
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    Me alquilo para soñar

    Me alquilo para soñar

    1 1992 HD

    Telenovela in six chapters adapted from the original screenplay by Gabriel García Marquez, directed by Ruy Guerra and shot in Cuba in 1991.

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  • 2004
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    Portugal S.A.

    Portugal S.A.

    5 2004 HD

    The story of the CEO of a recently privatized company.

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  • 1962
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    The Unscrupulous Ones

    The Unscrupulous Ones

    6.341 1962 HD

    Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they...

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  • 1986
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    Malandro

    Malandro

    6.5 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    5.5 2000 HD

    After a restless night he is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole, he sees a stranger. He doesn't know why that man is...

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  • 1983
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    Erendira

    Erendira

    6.1 1983 HD

    While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her...

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  • 1986
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    Malandro

    Malandro

    6.5 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1986
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    Malandro

    Malandro

    6.5 1986 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    The Guns

    The Guns

    7.4 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    The Guns

    The Guns

    7.4 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    6.7 1976 HD

    An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

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  • 1976
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    6.7 1976 HD

    An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

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  • 1989
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    Kuarup

    Kuarup

    4.2 1989 HD

    This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

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  • 1970
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    Of Gods and the Undead

    Of Gods and the Undead

    5.6 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Of Gods and the Undead

    Of Gods and the Undead

    5.6 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Of Gods and the Undead

    Of Gods and the Undead

    5.6 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Turbulence

    Turbulence

    5.5 2000 HD

    After a restless night he is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole, he sees a stranger. He doesn't know why that man is...

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  • 1964
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    The Guns

    The Guns

    7.4 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1982
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    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    5 1982 HD

    Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the...

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  • 1990
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    Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier

    Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier

    4 1990 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier

    Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon-Fancier

    4 1990 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Kuarup

    Kuarup

    4.2 1989 HD

    This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

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  • 1989
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    Kuarup

    Kuarup

    4.2 1989 HD

    This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit...

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  • 2006
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    In Evil Hour

    In Evil Hour

    5 2006 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Oblivious Memory

    Oblivious Memory

    6.5 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Sweet Hunters

    Sweet Hunters

    6 1970 HD

    An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister, who is...

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  • 2006
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    In Evil Hour

    In Evil Hour

    5 2006 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    The Unscrupulous Ones

    The Unscrupulous Ones

    6.341 1962 HD

    Upon learning that his rich dad is on the brink of bankruptcy, spoiled Vavá summons his friend Jandir with a plan to get some quick cash: they...

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  • 1982
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    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    5 1982 HD

    Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the...

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  • 1982
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    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    Mueda, Memory and Massacre

    5 1982 HD

    Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the...

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  • 2015
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    The Mirror

    The Mirror

    5 2015 HD

    A man is mysteriously called to the entrance gate of an abandoned country home. As if she was coming out of a water mirror, a woman emerges from the...

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  • 1963
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    The Beggars

    The Beggars

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1964
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    Esse Mundo é Meu

    Esse Mundo é Meu

    7 1964 HD

    The film follows two men living in a Rio de Janeiro slum: a black shoe-shiner and a white mill worker.

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  • 1976
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    6.7 1976 HD

    An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

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  • 1962
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    Cinco Vezes Favela

    Cinco Vezes Favela

    7.5 1962 HD

    Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • 1996
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    The Jew

    The Jew

    4.3 1996 HD

    The story of Brazilian Antônio José da Silva, a jewish poet, playwright and lawyer living in the 18th Century Lisbon, who managed to...

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  • 1976
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    The Fall

    The Fall

    6.7 1976 HD

    An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation...

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  • 2000
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    Monsanto

    Monsanto

    1 2000 HD

    Rui Sequeira, a former fighter in the Colonial War, resident of a small village of Alentejo, celebrates another anniversary of the Carnation...

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  • 1970
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    Sweet Hunters

    Sweet Hunters

    6 1970 HD

    An ornithologist goes on a field trip to a deserted island near the mainland with his wife and small son, and is joined by the wife's sister, who is...

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  • 1964
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    O Santo Módico

    O Santo Módico

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1962
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    Le tout pour le tout

    Le tout pour le tout

    1 1962 HD

    An unlucky trumpeter and a young singer try to rebuild their lives in Brazilian nightclubs. They will try everything for everything while making a...

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  • 1977
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    Branded For Life

    Branded For Life

    1 1977 HD

    A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Everything...

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  • 2020
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    In Pieces

    In Pieces

    1 2020 HD

    One man, two lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory.

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  • 2020
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    In Pieces

    In Pieces

    1 2020 HD

    One man, two lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory.

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