Ruth de Souza Movies

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

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 ancestors. Their memories, joys and sorrows become present as a possibility for a new fate, transforming the hard work of the washerwomen in a spectacle of...

A drama about double personality

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. But one of the winners falls for his stepdaughter, and this could change the situation.

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

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

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

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story.

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

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

A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.

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 forest.

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 Heights.