Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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...

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...

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

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

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

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...

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

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

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...

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

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

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

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...