The best Ruth de Souza’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Ruth de Souza’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ruth de Souza.
Boca
5.6/10
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
High Art
6.1/10
Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
8.5/10
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.
Jubiabá
6.4/10
Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado.
Assault on the Pay Train
7.8/10
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 railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Candinho
7.2/10
Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the country, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
Ravina
7.5/10
A Brazilian version of Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
Favela
4.7/10
A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry
Filhas do Vento
6.1/10
É uma lírica história de redenção amorosa entre irmãs, mães e filhas, em uma pequena cidade do interior de Minas Gerais, onde os fantasmas da escravidão e do racismo acentuam os dramas de forma sutil e poderosa.
A Fit of Rage
5.2/10
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in his fence. This simple fact raises accusations and discord between the two lovers.
Angela
7.3/10
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.
Pitanga
6.9/10
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. He career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. Pitanga deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.
Ladrões de Cinema
7.6/10
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 reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
Denying Brazil
7.6/10
A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.
O Homem Nu
7.4/10
A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
Pureza Proibida
5.9/10
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.
Um Homem Célebre
6.6/10
Inezita Barroso - A Voz e a Viola
The Landowner's Daughter
7.7/10
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.
O Cabeleira
6.6/10
Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.
