Birthday:
05-12-1921
Deathday:
07-28-2019 (98 years)
Birthplace:
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
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Conversations with Ruth de Souza
event 2022
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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.
Candinho
Act like Manuela
event 1954 star_border 6.9
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Candinho is a hillbilly who leaves the countryside, taking his donkey along, and goes to São Paulo, trying to find his mother.
Daughters of the Wind
Act like Cida
event 2005 star_border 6
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In a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
Primavera
Act like Josephina / Matilda / Madre Amélia
event 2022 star_border 2
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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.
Distraída para a Morte
Act like Carolina de Jesus
event 2001
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Three black teenagers walk around town. The two boys laugh at their own racist jokes while the girl watches them in silence.
Boca
Act like Mrs. Esteban
event 1994 star_border 3.5
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A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.
Macumba Love
Act like Mama Rata-loi
event 1960 star_border 5
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A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
The Landowner's Daughter
Act like Sabina
event 1953 star_border 5
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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.
Death Commands Brigandage
Act like Rezadeira
event 1960 star_border 5.8
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A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.
Assault on the Pay Train
Act like Judith
event 1962 star_border 8
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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.
A Fit of Rage
Act like Mariana
event 1999 star_border 5.3
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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.
The Naked Man
event 1968 star_border 6.2
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A man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
Only One Survived
Act like Mama Santa
event 1990
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Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Jubiabá
Act like Tia Luiza
event 1987 star_border 5.2
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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.
Também Somos Irmãos
Act like Rosália
event 1949 star_border 7.8
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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.
Osso, Amor e Papagaios
event 1957
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A small town is taken upside down when an inventor finds a way to turn bones into gold.
Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
Act like Self
event 2009
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A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil.
Denying Brazil
Act like Herself
event 2000 star_border 8.2
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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.
O Vendedor de Passados
Act like Dona Célia
event 2014 star_border 5.8
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A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step.
Fruit of Love
event 1981
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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.
Ravina
event 1959 star_border 5
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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.
Movie Theaters of Rio
Act like Self
event 2001
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The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.
Pureza Proibida
event 1975
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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.
Angela
event 1951
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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.
Bruma Seca
Act like Luisa
event 1961 star_border 5.7
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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.
Sweet Thieves
Act like Rainha Louca
event 1977 star_border 7
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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.
Terra é Sempre Terra
event 1951
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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.
O Cabeleira
event 1963
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Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.
High Art
Act like Old Woman Kissing
event 1991 star_border 4.5
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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.
Pontal da Solidão
event 1976
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A young woman, victim of violence, takes refuge with an old sailor.
The Shadow of Another
event 1950
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A drama about double personality
Favela
event 1960 star_border 5
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A girl goes from a favela to the luxurious scenarios of the international singing industry
Pitanga
Act like Self
event 2016 star_border 5.6
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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.
Who Killed Pacifico?
event 1977
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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.
As Divas Negras do Cinema Brasileiro
event 1989
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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.
Pressed, Ripped Apart
Act like (archive footage)
event 2019
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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.
Filhas de Lavadeiras
Act like herself
event 2019 star_border 10
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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.
Eu, Mulher Negra
event 1994
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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.
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Act like Self (archive footage)
event 2020 star_border 8.6
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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.
O Cinema das Mulheres
Act like Self
event 2020
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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.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Act like Self
event 2018
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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.
O Bem-Amado
Act like Francisca (Chiquinha do Parto) (178 ep.)
event 1973 star_border 8.8
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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.
Memorial de Maria Moura
Act like Siá Mena (19 ep.)
event 1994 star_border 7.2
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Adapted from the homonymous work by Rachel de Queiroz, it presents the saga of a woman against female submission in nineteenth-century patriarchal society.
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
Act like Antonia (1 ep.)
event 1987 star_border 4
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Das Erbe der Guldenburgs is a German television series.
The Clone
Act like Dona Mocinha da Silva (221 ep.)
event 2001 star_border 8
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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.
Corpo a Corpo
Act like Jurema Nascimento Rangel (179 ep.)
event 1984 star_border 8.8
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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.
Helena
Act like Madalena (20 ep.)
event 1975
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When his father passes away, Estácio (Osmar Prado) and his aunt Úrsula (Ida Gomes) receive his will and are surprised to discover that most of the inheritance was left to Helena (Lúcia Alves), a previously unknown daughter. In the will, her father asks that his daughter be taken in by her relatives. The news infuriates Úrsula, who has been in charge of the family business and caring for Estácio since his mother passed away, and does not accept Helena willingly, seeing her as an intruder in the family. In addition to Úrsula, someone who is not pleased with the girl's arrival is Dr. Camargo (Rogério Fróes), father of Eugênia (Ângela Valério), Estácio's fiancée. Even so, Estácio obeys his father's request and takes the girl to live with his family. Helena has a cheerful and outgoing temperament and her arrival affects everyone's lives. At first, she is hostile to Úrsula, but later wins her sympathy.
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