Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

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

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...

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