Ruy Polanah

Mühendis Bill Markham'ın oğlunun yağmur ormanlarında yaşayan bir yerli kabilesi tarafından kaçırılmasının ardından on yıl süre ile onu arayışını konu alan film çevreci sayılabilecek bir yaklaşımla çekilmiş aksiyon macera ve dram karışımı ilginç bir yapım.

Takıntılı derecede bir opera sever olan Fitzcarraldo, Peru'nun küçük bir şehrinde bir opera binası inşa etmek ister. Fakat bunu başarmak için önce kauçuk işinde bir servet kazanması gerekir. Bu amaç dahilindeki planında büyük bir nehir botunu yerli Kızılderili'lerle birlikte küçük bir dağdan geçirmek vardır. Konusunu gerçek bir hikayeden alan bu film yönetmenine Cannes Film Festivali'nde en iyi yönetmen ödülünü kazandırmıştır.

In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Rosso and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a client is killed by his wife in their establishment, they find a suitcase with drugs.

The film shows the drama of the young and fragile Lalinha. After being abandoned by her husband, who ran away with another, the girl seeks comfort on the farm where the two in-laws live and the widowed father-in-law. There, the girl discovers a new world.

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

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 wants to follow her steps as a protector of the jungle.

A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.

A Nazi scientist, wanted as a war criminal, develops a spider serum that turns people into fascist Nazi zombies. A pair of investigators who have devoted their lives to hunting down Nazi war criminals set out to stop him.

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

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

When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, decides to take them to the city in order to sell them.

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 girl falls in love with a poor composer. Based on the musical play "Pobre Menina Rica", by Vinícius de Moraes and Carlos Lyra.

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 Brazil.

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

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

After witnessing the assassination of her parents, Luzia is raised by a cowboy and starts behaving like the men of Brazilian "Sertão". As a grown-up, she sets out to find her parent's murderer, but ends up discovering love.

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 priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.

Usta şoför Jorge (Carlos Alberto Riccelli), sevgilisi Sandra (Glória Pires) ile kavga ettikten sonra, Brezilya'nın sonsuz yollarına düşer. Lastikleri kilometrelerce dönerken, geçmişinin en çarpıcı anılarını, yol arkadaşlarını ve unutulmaz karakterleri hatırlar: Sarhoşlar, peygamberler, hilekâr çiftçiler, dürüst insanlar ve tehlikeli tipler... Karizmatik patronu Mário'nun (Dean Stockwell) verdiği zorlu görevi tamamlamak için ormanları, nehirleri ve sınırsız diyarları aşacaktır. Ancak bu yolculuk, onu hiç hayal etmediği bir efsaneye dönüştürecektir!

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 the battle for land and cacao plantations. His plan is to take the place of "Colonel" Santana, taking his wife and money. He starts a bloody conflict, in which many simple people and landowners die.

The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.