Date of birth: 1922-01-01
Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Rui Polanah, Rui Polionah


1982-03-02
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so,

2006-04-21
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel.

1989-06-02
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 an

1982-01-01
A three-episode anthology film based on short stories by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos.

1996-10-18
Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing

1970-06-25
In the 1930s, in the South of State of Bahia, Brazil, an adventurer with no name or history, who has

1964-06-01
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck p

1982-07-04
A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undis

1988-05-05
After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving l

2007-11-15
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where t

1987-07-22
The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The

1976-03-01
"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil.

1974-08-26
Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the le

1984-06-03
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. Thi

1986-12-15
Mr. Kapa and his assistant meet Iara, a mythical being, in a river with purple waters. Geléia, the a
1996-01-01
1972-05-26
1987-12-17
A documentary about the artist Aloísio Magalhães.

1977-07-22
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indi

1984-08-26
The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who

1995-01-01
A young boy escapes from an orphanage to find two magical creatures in the jungle. As he bonds with

1973-12-30
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will le

1987-03-11
Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affa

1977-05-26
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decide

2006-02-02
The old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene of
1967-06-30
Helena, married to decorator Bruno, is a woman dissatisfied with the futility of social life. She re

1975-12-15
Rui arrives in a small town looking for his father, a prospector. Before that, he gets involved with

1985-06-22
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from

1978-04-21
This adaptation of a classic Brazilian novel focuses on the relations of charismatic characters with

1978-01-01
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole

1976-03-24
A wealthy French promoter living in Rio tries to seduce Alexandra, a young woman of high society, bu

1991-12-06
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South Am

1963-04-16
The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian

2004-12-12
The young warrior indian Tainá must now battle against biopirates, and is joined by a new boy from t

2001-01-12
A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman

1977-10-31
Young robber, son of a prostitute who had killed herself, gets involved with two police informers, w

1977-11-24
A true friendship develops between Jojô, a prostitute Rosa, and the young Eduardo, who survive on th

1983-05-19
A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro.

1990-10-05
When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucinat

1984-04-30
Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in

1987-06-19
According to an amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a brazilian fishing village rec

1990-10-13

1999-03-08
Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure fr

1986-07-02
In Rio de Janeiro's bohemian district called Lapa, during the '40s, a stylish and popular scoundrel

1963-02-07
In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who

1988-01-01
After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the

1999-04-21
Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when

2002-09-14
The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, durin

1987-02-02
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number