Ruth de Souza Movies

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Cast: Ruth de Souza

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Cast: Camila Morgado

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth de Souza

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Amacio Mazzaropi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth de Souza

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Paula Arósio

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fabinho Nepo

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rae Dawn Chong

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Procópio Ferreira

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walmor Chagas

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

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Walter Reed

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Eliane Lage

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Alberto Ruschel

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eliezer Gomes

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Júlia Lemmertz

A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paulo José

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Perry King

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aguinaldo Camargo

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Grande Otelo

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jaime Costa

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joel Zito Araújo

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zezé Motta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lázaro Ramos

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Helio Souto

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

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Cast: Paulo César Peréio

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eliane Lage

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: José Wilker

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...

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Cast: Rossana Ghessa

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eliane Lage

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Mário Brasini

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oscarito

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marisa Prado

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurício Gonçalves

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

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Enoque Batista

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Moraes

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Coyote

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alberto Ruschel

A drama about double personality

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eliana

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Sarli

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jece Valadão

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Inezita Barroso

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth de Souza

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Adele Fátima

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Inezita Barroso

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Antônio Pitanga

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roney Facchini

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anselmo Duarte

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth de Souza

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruth de Souza

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emicida