Ruth de Souza Movies

A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

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

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

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...

Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break...

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 drama about double personality

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