Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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

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

A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.

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...

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.

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

A woman, who believes she has a curse, sees an engineer die in an accident while building a bridge. Considering two men who were courting her...

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

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