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.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break...

The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the...

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...

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

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

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