
Ruth de Souza
Actor · 1921 – 2019 · 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.
Movies21
Movie7.0AdventureDramaBased on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.
O Cabeleira
1963 · 1 votes
Movie6.0DramaMoments 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 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyFalta Alguém no Manicômio
1948 · 1 votes
Movie7.5FantasyAdventureA writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
Macumba Love
1960 · 2 votes
- Movie6.3AdventureDrama
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 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentary
Movie7.0DramaHistoryO Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício
2000 · 4 votes
Movie7.1ComedyCandinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
Candinho
1954 · 5 votes
Movie3.6DramaThrillerA photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Boca
1994 · 9 votes
MovieDocumentary
Movie9.0Baby 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.
Pureza Proibida
1975 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA 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 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ActionWesternA man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.
Movie6.4DramaIn a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Movie6.0DramaA 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 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0
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.
Movie8.4DocumentaryA 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.
Movie4.5DramaRomancePeter 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.
Movie7.6DramaRenato 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.
Também Somos Irmãos
1949 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ActionThrillerFour buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Only One Survived
1990 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThree 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 · 1 votes
Series20
TV7.5DramaSoapIn 1886, in the small town of Araruna, Little Missy rejects the actions of her father—the slave-owning Colonel Ferreira—alongside Rodolfo, an active abolitionist republican with whom she falls in love.
TV8.1SoapDramaHuman cloning. The Islamic world. Two young people, two different cultures, two different beliefs. An impossible love story that not even time could erase. During a trip to Morocco, Lucas has a forbidden romance with Jade. He returns to Brazil after the death of his twin brother Diogo. A close family friend, scientist Albieri uses this situation to produce the first human clone using cells taken from Lucas. Twenty years later, Jade, Lucas and his clone form an odd love triangle.
TV7.8SoapDramaMaria do Carmo becomes wealthy through her father's business dealings and becomes a successful businesswoman, but she retains the habits of her humble past.
Rainha da Sucata
1990 · 11 votes
TV10.0DramaSoapO Homem Que Deve Morrer
1971 · 1 votes
TV9.0SoapDramaSétimo Sentido
1982 · 6 votes
TV7.7SoapDramaO Grito
1975 · 3 votes
TV9.3SoapDramaEloá and Osmar's marriage is thrown into crisis when a mysterious man crosses their path. With a thirst for prestige and power, Eloá will face the consequences of her ambition.
TV7.7SoapDramaSinal de Alerta
1978 · 3 votes
TV8.5DramaSoapPartido Alto
1984 · 4 votes
TV7.5DramaWesternVerão Vermelho
1969 · 2 votes
TV8.0DramaSoapJocasta, an 18-year-old sociology student and daughter of communist activist Túlio Silveira, is actively involved in the country's political landscape. She is in love with Laio—her polar opposite—a disengaged, esoteric young man who lives off his wealthy father's allowance. A mystic, Laio makes no move without consulting his guru and friend Argemiro, whom he turns to upon learning of Jocasta's pregnancy. The cowrie shell reading reveals that his son is destined to kill him and enter into a romantic relationship with his mother. Terrified, Laio disappears with the child immediately after birth, aided by Argemiro—who loves Laio and loathes Jocasta. Twenty-five years later, Jocasta is a successful yet restless woman searching for her missing son. She is estranged from Laio, who has spent recent years expanding his father's fortune through involvement in underground gambling. On a highway, he encounters Oedipus, unaware that the young man is his son.
Mandala
1987 · 2 votes
TV9.1SoapComedyO Bem-Amado is a Brazilian telenovela that first aired on Rede Globo in 1973. It is based on a play by Dias Gomes called Odorico, o Bem-Amado ou Os Mistérios do Amor e da Morte, written in 1962. It was the first Brazilian color telenovela. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro. Broadcast by Rede Globo between January 22 and October 3, 1973.
O Bem-Amado
1973 · 8 votes
TV6.3SoapDramaAssim na Terra Como no Céu
1970 · 3 votes
TV6.7SoapDramaO Casarão
1976 · 3 votes
TV4.9FamilyThe life of the German noble family von Guldenburg.
- TV8.0SoapDrama
A Deusa Vencida
1965 · 1 votes
TV7.0SoapDramaCláudia returns to her rural hometown in order to take revenge for the murder of her family a long time ago. She believes that the Flores family committed the crime and tries to destroy them....
TV10.0SoapDramaEugênio Fontes is a medical student striving for upward social mobility. His impoverished childhood left him with an inferiority complex that hinders him in both his career and his romantic life; consequently, his struggles and dreams are entirely focused on achieving financial security. Deeply conflicted, he feels unable to love his parents, Alzira and Ângelo, to whom he owes his education. While in medical school, Eugênio meets Olívia Miranda, and the two fall in love. However, he ultimately marries Eunice—a beautiful, wealthy young woman and the daughter of the industrialist Cintra. Through his marriage to Eunice, Eugênio secures a good job and gains influential connections, such as a friendship with Felipe Lobo, a respected architect and associate of his father-in-law. Yet, as time goes by, the young doctor begins to question his marriage.
Olhai os Lírios do Campo
1980 · 1 votes
TVDramaSoapThe story, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel of the same name – which fueled the abolitionist movement in the United States – depicts the conflict between enslaved American cotton planters and wealthy landowners in the South. The fight for freedom is led by Uncle Tom and his wife Chloe.
TV8.5SoapDramaOs Ossos do Barão
1973 · 2 votes