Ruth de Souza

Assembling the largest cast of black actors ever seen in a Brazilian film, this first fiction feature film by acclaimed documentarian Araujo is a moving and complex story about redemption between sisters, mothers, and daughters. (Film Forum)

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. (imdb)

A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story. (imdb)

Anthropological and scientific experiments are conducted on a desert island by Dr. Blum (Pereio) and Elza (Ruth de Souza). They have the help of an old fisherman and the employee responsible for tasks.

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.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the musician Pestana became famous in the halls of Rio de Janeiro with his popular songs. However, his greatest desire is to consecrate himself as a classical composer, which causes him inner conflicts.

"As Cariocas" is a dramatic comedy, presented as three different episodes, based on stories by Stanislau Ponte Preta. (imdb)

The gang composed by small-time thieves from the slum and leaded by the criminal Tião Medonho (Eliezer Gomes) plans and successfully executes the robbery of the train with the payments of the Banco do Brasil ("Bank of Brazil"). The police has no leads and believes that the heist was committed by an international gang. Meanwhile, Tiao imposes that each outlaw can only spend 10% of the share, but the poor reality and the greed of most of them spoil the planning. (imdb)

Helena e Marcos, heirs of a mining, land in a small village, last passenger plane landing. To reach the gold mine they are bound to hire the taxi-air João Querido. They arrive on the scene in perilous times, the "haze". The miners, however, had previously received title to Marcos's uncle, and are willing to fight the "invaders". (cinemateca brasileira)

Conception is a young woman who lives with a marriage and deals with the harvest and sale of fruit in the hills of Rio de Janeiro. Sexually harassed by her stepfather, decides to search for other horizons and -with the aid of its remarkable natural talent- becomes a successful entertainer. Notwithstanding, for access to international stardom, must pay the price of Fame: give up the man who loves.

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

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

A garimpo, on the Brazil-Bolivia border, is dominated by a man who, surrounded by henchmen, prevents the diamonds from being stolen. With the arrival of an outsider, the men are thinking of running away. He is viewed with suspicion by everyone. A very valuable diamond is found, but it disappears along with the stranger, who is chased.

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.

Scientist announces he has discovered a chemical process to turn human bones into gold. The news starts a frantic chase for human bones, with people going to cemeteries in droves. (imdb)

Detective investigates the death of a famous TV and radio star who's found dead near a dam, listening to what people who knew her had to say... But each one says different things about her life, in perfect contradiction. (imdb)

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

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between his wife and the boss.

Renato (Agnaldo Camargo) and Miro (Grande Otelo) are black brothers raised by the family of the Caucasian Marta (Vera Nunes) in an old mansion in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Renato is graduated and has always looked for dignity, winning in life due to his honesty and search for social recognition.His brother, on the contrary, is a rebel small time crook and he says that his behavior is the fruit of the treatment he received while living in the Caucasian family's house.