Personal Info
Birth date
1943-01-01 (82 Years)
Day of death
2006-02-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Also known as
Guará
Guaraci Rodrigues
Guaracy Rodrigues
Guarracy Rodrigues
Guará Rodrigues
Biography
Guaracy Rodrigues, known as Guará (Belo Horizonte, 1943 — Rio de Janeiro, February 21, 2006) was a Brazilian actor, art director and film director. Known for his small roles and cameos throughout his more than 40 years as an actor, he is considered one of the most important figures in the history of marginal cinema.
Filmography
Lady on the Bus
5.5
Overview:
Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.Moon Over Parador
5.8
Overview:
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.Macunaima
6.9
Overview:
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
5.3
Overview:
In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.Rio Babilonia
5.3
Overview:
A public relations man is invited to guide an American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. He gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.Noite
2
Overview:
Somwhere in the city of Porto Alegre, a man who has lost his memory is questioned by a group of police officers about the barbaric murder of a socialite. Without recognizing himself in the documents he carries in his pocket, he wanders through the underworlds of the city in search of an answer.Scent of Gardenias
5.8
Overview:
Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. For more than a decade, Daniel nurtures a feeling of revenge for his ex-wife, which gains strength when their now adult son finds his mother in full professional decay.The Seven Kittens
6
Overview:
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
NYR
Overview:
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."Baron Olavo, The Horrible
4.8
Overview:
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director was forced to leave Brazil. Horror and humor to deal with the subject of insanity: “In the end everyone leaves the house as though they were laboratory mice escaping, they invade the city and contaminate the world”. “If we talk about horror, this film deals with national horror, with Mojica Marins as an emblem. There might be a few touches of Corman and English horror, but it is another level of horror. What transformed the film was the location where we were shooting, the house of a 19th century painter, a receptacle of light. When I arrived and saw that house, that light, I said: ‘This is the film. This is the horror’. The meaning of the film, its appeal, derives from this laboratory of light” (J. Bressane). — Torino Film FestivalThe Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
9
Overview:
For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!I Love You
5.5
Overview:
After the collapse of their relationships with other people, Maria and Paulo embark in an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga
7.1
Overview:
Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead, being rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple, Matraga starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance to payback, starting a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him.Copacabana Mon Amour
7.1
Overview:
Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.Sermões
6.4
Overview:
Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.Cleopatra
5.3
Overview:
The great battles are the backdrop for the unfolding of the Egyptian Queen's personal life. The strategy of Cleopatra is to seduce the Roman General Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to protect their civilization.Killed the Family and Went to the Movies
6.5
Overview:
A man living with his parents in a low middle-class apartment in Rio de Janeiro coldly stabs them with a razor and then goes to the movies. Marcia, a rich and dissatisfied young woman, takes advantage of a trip from her husband to go to her home in Petrópolis, where she receives a visit from an old friend, Regina.Anchieta, José do Brasil
6.5
Overview:
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.Para Viver Um Grande Amor
5.2
Overview:
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.The Hullabaloo Family
6
Overview:
A dysfunctional family, composed of a prostitute and two gay men, one strong and the other fragile and stupid, lives a routine life in Rio de Janeiro. When the slut threatens the other two to stop supporting them, they decide to find an odalisque as an alternative to keep their easy life.Dib
NYR
Overview:
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.A Werewolf in the Amazon
4.3
Overview:
In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous animal-human hybrid creations.Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes
8.1
Overview:
First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way. Filmed on the streets of London.Dedé Mamata
3.667
Overview:
Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local communist party. When his grandmother dies, his grandfather's health soon fades to the point where he can't speak or walk. The local party officials ask Dede to continue to family tradition and take over his grandfather's position of social authority, but when Dede is introduced to cocaine by his best friend Alpino (Marcos Palmeira), the attraction to drugs is more appealing to him than political activism.Brás Cubas
5
Overview:
Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.The Sign of Chaos
6.9
Overview:
A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. Then, a party in which repression agents celebrate their victory against freedom and creativity.The Brazilwood Man
4.8
Overview:
Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by two actors: Ítala Nandi, as his feminine anima, and Flávio Galvão, as the masculine half.Oceano Atlantis
NYR
Overview:
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.O Rei do Baralho
5.7
Overview:
In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of Cinédia. "The photography is splendid, it is a sort of parallel song, of critique, of parody, of understanding of a certain light typical of Brazilian cinema of the times, already re-created, already stylized. And with the older actors, Otelo, Lewgoy and the others, something very important happened in the artistic perception, seeing again, doing again, it was already a concrete metalanguage" (J. Bressane).Acting
2024Boom Shankar – O Filme Perdido do Guará as Unknown
2023The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus as Unknown
2016Beduíno as (archive footage)
2012Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz as Unknown
2007Cleopatra as Unknown
2007O Quadrado de Joana as Unknown
2005A Werewolf in the Amazon as Zoltan
2005A Miss e o Dinossauro as Unknown
2003The Sign of Chaos as Capanga
2002Samba Chanson as Self
1998A hora vagabunda as Unknown
1998Curra Urbana as Unknown
1997Razor in the Flesh as Unknown
1997Dib as Self
1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional as Self
1995The Mandarin as Unknown
1994Louco Por Cinema as Unknown
1993A Saga do Guerreiro Alumioso as Unknown
1993Oceano Atlantis as Unknown
1992Scent of Gardenias as Moreira
1992Oswaldianas as Unknown
1992Perigo Negro as Unknown
1991Killed the Family and Went to the Movies as Abominável Ladrão de Calcinhas
1989Sermões as Unknown
1988Moon Over Parador as Bearded Man
1988Dedé Mamata as Barbudo
1986It's Not All True as Unknown
1985Areias Escaldantes as Mínimo Jonas
1985Brás Cubas as Unknown
1985Noite as Unknown
1985Um Filme 100% Brasileiro as Unknown
1984Para Viver Um Grande Amor as Mendonça
1983Tabu as Unknown
1982Rio Babilonia as Unknown
1982The Adventures of a Paraíba as Unknown
1982The Brazilwood Man as Biriba
1981I Love You as Atendente de necrotério
1980The Seven Kittens as Dr. Barbosa Coutinho
1978Madrepérola as Unknown
1977Anchieta, José do Brasil as Francisco Pereira
1976The Agony as Unknown
1975O Rei do Baralho as Unknown
1971Memoirs of a Strangler of Blondes as The Strangler
1971Crazy Love as Unknown
1970The Hullabaloo Family as Gay Forte
1970No Way, Spider as Unknown
1970Copacabana Mon Amour as Crook
1970Watch Out, Madame as Voiceover
1969Macunaima as Bum
1969Garden of War as Unknown
1969Baron Olavo, The Horrible as Man in Dark Glasses
1969Killed the Family and Went to the Movies as (as Guará)
1968On Borrowed Time as Homem no filme
Directing
1992Perigo Negro ... Assistant Director
1991Killed the Family and Went to the Movies ... Assistant Director
1980Música para Sempre ... Director
1980The Seven Kittens ... Assistant Director
1978Lady on the Bus ... Assistant Director
1970Copacabana Mon Amour ... Assistant Director
1970Watch Out, Madame ... Assistant Director
1969Garden of War ... Assistant Director
1969Killed the Family and Went to the Movies ... Assistant Director
1968The Naked Man ... Assistant Director
1968The Outsiders ... Assistant Director
1965The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga ... Assistant Director
Production
1991Killed the Family and Went to the Movies ... Associate Producer
Sound
1983Tabu ... Sound Recordist
1982Rio Babilonia ... Sound
1970No Way, Spider ... Sound
1970Carnaval na Lama ... Sound
Art
1970The Hullabaloo Family ... Art Direction
1969Garden of War ... Art Direction
1969Killed the Family and Went to the Movies ... Art Direction
1969The Angel Was Born ... Art Direction
Editing
1969Garden of War ... Editor