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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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