Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

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

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

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....

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...

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

A drama about double personality

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

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

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...

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

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