Películas de Ruth de Souza

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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 gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

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

Renato and Miro are black brothers raised by a white family in an old mansion in Rio de Janeiro. Renato, a graduated lawyer, has always looked for...

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.

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

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

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 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...

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

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 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....

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...

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...

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

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

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

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

A drama about double personality

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

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

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

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

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

Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend school and retrace the paths treaded by their...

Prepared by the team of the Program for Training Black Researchers, The video brings together images and voices that talk about the reproductive...

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