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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

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

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...

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

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

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...

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

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

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