Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

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

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

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

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the...

Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break...

Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend school and retrace the paths treaded by their...

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...

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

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

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

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