Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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