Ruth de Souza Movies

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

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

Blum and Elza conduct Scientific and anthropological researches in a desert island, where they use as subjects a old fisherman, the house keeper and...

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

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes...

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

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

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her...

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

In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a king-size diamond that he puts in his pocket rather...

Moments before a father's death, all of his family memories are transferred to his son through a dream, from the first ancestor, an Englishman living...

Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl watches them in silence.

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

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

Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having...

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

A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.

A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this...