Ruth de Souza Movies

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a...

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

An executive inherits a mine and decides to visit it with his wife, with the help of an airplane pilot who knows the whole area. The group gets in...

A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.

Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls...

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of...

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His...

Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.

A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step.

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an...