Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend school and retrace the paths treaded by their...

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...

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

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