Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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 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....

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an...