Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

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....

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers...

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

A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

A drama about double personality

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.