Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

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

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

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 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....

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.

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...

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

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...