Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.