Movies: Ruth de Souza

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an important part of the achievements for black women over almost a century of life. At the age of 95, surpass...

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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 at the end of the 18th century, to his Brazilian heirs, the protagonists of this story....

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 responsible for the tragedy, she decides to take revenge on both. Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering He...

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

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A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil....

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 dignity, winning in life due to his honesty and search for social recognition. His brother, on the cont...

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

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 trouble with the miners, and the situation escalates when they have to make a forced landing in the for...

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 prostitute from the country. But the affection grows between the three of them, and this feelings a...

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

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What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimite...

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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 in love with a black fisherman, who practices a Afro-Brazilian religion called Umbanda....

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the Brazilian artistic world. Starring actresses Zezé Motta, Ruth de Souza, Léa Garcia, Zenaide Zen and Ade...

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 daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador....

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