Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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....