Ruth de Souza Movies

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an important part of the achievements for black women over almost a century of life. At the age of 95, surpassing 70 in...

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 at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story.

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 backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.

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 railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

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 engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his...

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 dignity, winning in life due to his honesty and search for social recognition. His brother, on the contrary, is a...

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 daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.

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