Ruth de Souza Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A drama about double personality

A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.

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...

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