Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break...

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

A drama about double personality

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

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

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

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