Ruth de Souza Movies

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

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

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