Ruth de Souza Movies

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

Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend school and retrace the paths treaded by their...

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...

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...

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

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

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 that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.

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

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

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...

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...

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

A drama about double personality

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

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...

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