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...

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.

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

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

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...

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

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.

Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...