Ruth de Souza
Also Known As: Рут де Соуза, ルース・デ・ソウザ, 루스 드 소자, 露丝·德·索萨
Biography: Ruth Pinto de Souza was considered one of the great ladies of Brazilian dramaturgy and the first great reference for black artists on television for her notable roles. Ruth stood out for being the first black actress to star in a soap opera on Rede Globo in A Cabana do Pai Tomás (1969) — and the second on Brazilian television, after Yolanda Braga, in A Cor da Sua Pele (1965) on TV Tupi — in addition to being the first Brazilian artist nominated for the best actress award at an international film festival, for her work in Sinhá Moça (1954) at the Venice Film Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: May 12, 1921
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 28, 2019
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A Mãe e o Filho da Mãe
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Abdias Nascimento
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-05-01
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Conversations with Ruth de Souza
Overview: 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, surpassing 70 in her career, amidst reflections and memories, a dialogue was born between two generations of black artists, Ruth and the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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Candinho
Overview: Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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Daughters of the Wind
Overview: In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Primavera
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-02-17
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Distraída para a Morte
Overview: Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl watches them in silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-02-15
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Boca
Overview: A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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Quem matou Anabela?
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Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Um Homem Célebre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Macumba Love
Overview: A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Landowner's Daughter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-05-11
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Death Commands Brigandage
Overview: A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-12-28
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Assault on the Pay Train
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1962-09-02
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A Fit of Rage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-06-01
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The Naked Man
Overview: A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1968-03-04
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Only One Survived
Overview: Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-27
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Também Somos Irmãos
Overview: 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 contrary, is a rebel small time crook who believes his behavior is the product of the treatment he received while being rased by the whites.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-10-15
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Jubiabá
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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Osso, Amor e Papagaios
Overview: A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1957-02-23
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Denying Brazil
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-11-20
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Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
Overview: A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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O Vendedor de Passados
Overview: A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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Lonesome Women
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-04-18
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Fruit of Love
Overview: 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 are capable of compromising the whole research.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Ravina
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-02-24
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Movie Theaters of Rio
Overview: The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-09-27
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Pureza Proibida
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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Angela
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Bruma Seca
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1961-05-29
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Falta Alguém no Manicômio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1948-08-31
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Sweet Thieves
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Terra é Sempre Terra
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1951-03-17
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O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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O Cabeleira
Overview: Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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High Art
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Pontal da Solidão
Overview: A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1976-12-31
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The Shadow of Another
Overview: A drama about double personality
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1950-10-27
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Favela
Overview: A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Pitanga
Overview: This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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Who Killed Pacifico?
Overview: Roberto, Pierre and Pedro are very different men, with very different life paths; However, one thing unites them: the three are suspected of having murdered Colonel Pacífico, the rich and powerful owner of the city of Parada de Deus, in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. However, jail may be the least of his problems, as the colonel's brother is a bloodthirsty gunslinger looking for revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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Inezita Barroso - A Voz e a Viola
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Memória Vera Cruz: A Recuperação de um Sonho
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-08-03
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As Divas Negras do Cinema Brasileiro
Overview: 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 Adele Fátima, as well as activist Lélia Gonzáles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Inezita
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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Pressed, Ripped Apart
Overview: 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 delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-06
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O Construtor de Sonhos
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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Terra Violenta
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Filhas de Lavadeiras
Overview: 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 life and fulfillment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Eu, Mulher Negra
Overview: Prepared by the team of the Program for Training Black Researchers, The video brings together images and voices that talk about the reproductive health of black women, diseases taking into account the racial/ethnic background, habits, customs, the physical and social environment and the inhuman conditions imposed by racism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-06-05
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-12-08
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O Cinema das Mulheres
Overview: Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break with oppression, look after precious archives, play remarkable characters, produce and direct successful films? The documentary illuminates the trajectories of dreams, challenges and victories of talented Brazilian women in our audiovisual sector.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Carolina Maria de Jesus
Overview: The documentary tells the story of writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who became a success in the 60s and, since then, has inspired writers and artists such as Ruth de Souza, Zezé Motta and Conceição Evaristo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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