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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes...

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

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

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.