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...

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

An executive inherits a mine and decides to visit it with his wife, with the help of an airplane pilot who knows the whole area. The group gets in...

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

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