Ruth de Souza Movies

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of...

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

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 true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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