Ruth de Souza

Acting

Ruth de Souza

Born 1921-05-12 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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.

Acting credits

Primavera poster
6.0

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.

Primavera

2022

Ravina poster
6.0

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.

Ravina

1959

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício

2000

O Cabeleira poster
7.0

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

O Cabeleira

1963

Falta Alguém no Manicômio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

1948

Death Commands Brigandage poster
6.6

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

Death Commands Brigandage

1960

Boca poster
3.6

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

Boca

1994

Macumba Love poster
7.5

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

Macumba Love

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Mãe e o Filho da Mãe

2003

Abdias Nascimento poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Abdias Nascimento

2011

Candinho poster
7.1

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

Candinho

1954

No artwork available
6.3

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.

Bruma Seca

1961

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro

2026

Inezita poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Inezita

2018

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Fruit of Love

1981

Angela poster
7.0

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.

Angela

1951

Distraída para a Morte poster
10.0

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

Distraída para a Morte

2001

Conversations with Ruth de Souza poster
NR

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.

Conversations with Ruth de Souza

2022

O Vendedor de Passados poster
5.9

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

O Vendedor de Passados

2014

High Art poster
4.5

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.

High Art

1991

Daughters of the Wind poster
6.4

In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.

Daughters of the Wind

2005

Osso, Amor e Papagaios poster
9.0

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

Osso, Amor e Papagaios

1957

Um Homem Célebre poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Um Homem Célebre

1974

A Fit of Rage poster
5.2

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.

A Fit of Rage

1999