Acting

Ruth de Souza

Born May 12, 1921 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Died July 28, 2019 · aged 98

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 additi…

Known For

O Cabeleira

O Cabeleira · 1963

MovieAdventureDrama

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

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício · 2000

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício

MovieDramaHistory

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

Falta Alguém no Manicômio · 1948

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

Death Commands Brigandage

Death Commands Brigandage · 1960

Death Commands Brigandage

MovieActionWestern

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

Abdias Nascimento

Abdias Nascimento · 2011

Abdias Nascimento

MovieDocumentary

Inezita

Inezita · 2018

MovieDocumentary

Boca

MovieDramaThriller

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

Macumba Love

Macumba Love · 1960

MovieFantasyAdventure

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

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O Cabeleira

O Cabeleira · 1963

MovieAdventureDrama

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

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício · 2000

O Aleijadinho - Paixão, Glória e Suplício

MovieDramaHistory

Joana

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

Falta Alguém no Manicômio · 1948

Falta Alguém no Manicômio

Death Commands Brigandage

Death Commands Brigandage · 1960

Death Commands Brigandage

MovieActionWestern

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

Rezadeira

Abdias Nascimento

Abdias Nascimento · 2011

Abdias Nascimento

MovieDocumentary

Inezita

Inezita · 2018

MovieDocumentary

Boca

MovieDramaThriller

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

Mrs. Esteban

Macumba Love

Macumba Love · 1960

MovieFantasyAdventure

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

Mama Rata-loi

Candinho

Candinho · 1954

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

Dona Manuela

Primavera

Primavera · 2022

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.

Josephina / Matilda / Madre Amélia

Ravina

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.

High Art

High Art · 1991

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Old Woman Kissing

Only One Survived

Only One Survived · 1990

Only One Survived

MovieActionThriller

Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.

Mama Santa

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro · 2026

Ecos do Teatro Experimental do Negro

MovieDocumentary

Angela

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.

Divina

Distraída para a Morte

Distraída para a Morte · 2001

Distraída para a Morte

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

Carolina de Jesus

Pureza Proibida

Pureza Proibida · 1975

Pureza Proibida

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.

Memória Vera Cruz: A Recuperação de um Sonho

Memória Vera Cruz: A Recuperação de um Sonho · 1987

Memória Vera Cruz: A Recuperação de um Sonho

MovieDocumentary

Daughters of the Wind

Daughters of the Wind · 2005

Daughters of the Wind

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

Cida

Osso, Amor e Papagaios

Osso, Amor e Papagaios · 1957

Osso, Amor e Papagaios

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

O Vendedor de Passados

O Vendedor de Passados · 2014

O Vendedor de Passados

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

Dona Célia

A Fit of Rage

A Fit of Rage · 1999

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Mariana

Who Killed Pacifico?

Who Killed Pacifico? · 1977

Who Killed Pacifico?

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.

Eu, Mulher Negra

Eu, Mulher Negra · 1994

Eu, Mulher Negra

MovieDocumentary

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.

The Clone

The Clone · 2001

SeriesSoapDrama

Human 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.

Dona Mocinha da Silva

Little Missy

Little Missy · 1986

SeriesDramaSoap

In 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.

Balbina

Rainha da Sucata

Rainha da Sucata · 1990

Rainha da Sucata

SeriesSoapDrama

Maria do Carmo becomes wealthy through her father's business dealings and becomes a successful businesswoman, but she retains the habits of her humble past.

Juíza Elizabeth Andrade

Duas Vidas

Duas Vidas · 1976

Elisa

O Homem Que Deve Morrer

O Homem Que Deve Morrer · 1971

O Homem Que Deve Morrer

SeriesDramaSoap

Das Dores (Ma. das Dores)

Os Ossos do Barão

Os Ossos do Barão · 1973

Os Ossos do Barão

SeriesSoapDrama

Elisa

Mandala

Mandala · 1987

SeriesDramaSoap

Zezé (Maria José Barbosa)

Partido Alto

Partido Alto · 1984

SeriesDramaSoap

jurada no julgamento de Maurício e Jussara

Power Play

Power Play · 1984

SeriesSoapDrama

Eloá 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.

Jurema Nascimento Rangel

Pigmalião 70

Pigmalião 70 · 1970

The soap opera told the story of Fernando Dalba, or Nando, a fruit vendor who works with his mother, the Baroness, and his friends Gino and Guiomar. His life changes after he meets the wealthy widow Cristina Guimarães, owner of a beauty salon, who decides to teach him how to behave like a man of high society. Cristina's intention is to win a bet, but she falls in love with Nando, who is engaged to Candinha.

Sétimo Sentido

Sétimo Sentido · 1982

Sétimo Sentido

SeriesSoapDrama

Jerusa

O Bem-Amado

O Bem-Amado · 1973

SeriesSoapComedy

O 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.

Francisca (Chiquinha do Parto)

Wildcat

Wildcat · 1988

SeriesSoapDrama

Cláudia 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....

Cecília

Assim na Terra Como no Céu

Assim na Terra Como no Céu · 1970

Assim na Terra Como no Céu

SeriesSoapDrama

Isabel

O Casarão

O Casarão · 1976

SeriesSoapDrama

marchand da galeria de arte

Verão Vermelho

Verão Vermelho · 1969

Verão Vermelho

SeriesDramaWestern

Clementina

Passo dos Ventos

Passo dos Ventos · 1968

Passo dos Ventos

SeriesDramaSoap

Mãe Tuiá

Bicho do Mato

Bicho do Mato · 1972

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

On a farm in the interior of Mato Grosso, the impetuous hillbilly Juba grows up free and without instruction, in contact with nature. His parents are killed by cattle rustlers, and he takes over the farm. With the help of the Indian and tutor Iru, who teaches him the secrets of the forest, Juba plans to take revenge on the murderers. His life changes when he falls in love with Ruth, a young woman from the big city who introduces him to a world with new possibilities.

Zilda

A Cabana do Pai Tomás

A Cabana do Pai Tomás · 1969

A Cabana do Pai Tomás

SeriesDramaSoap

The 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.

Cloé

O Grito

O Grito · 1975

SeriesSoapDrama

Albertina

O Rebu

SeriesSoapCrime

Lourdes

Caso Especial

Caso Especial · 1971

SeriesDramaCrime

Laura

Sinal de Alerta

Sinal de Alerta · 1978

Sinal de Alerta

SeriesSoapDrama

Adelaide

Pacto de Sangue

Pacto de Sangue · 1989

Pacto de Sangue

SeriesSoapDrama

Mãe Quitinha