Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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....

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.