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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

A drama about double personality

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

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 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...

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

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

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