Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

The documentary tells the story of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who became a success in the 60s and, since then, has inspired writers and artists...

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

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