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....

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.

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

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

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.

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

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

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 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.

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

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

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...

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...