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...

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

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

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

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

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

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

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