Isabel Ruth
Birthday: 1940-04-06
Place of Birth: Tomar, Portugal
Biography: Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1963.
Movies
Appassionate
Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Ros...
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H2S
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a sur...
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The Mutants
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Ped...
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Primeira Obra
Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD bas...
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A Woman's Revenge
Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscru...
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River of Gold
Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries ano...
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The Green Years
Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his unc...
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E o Tempo Passa
Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memorie...
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O Delfim
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He ...
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Blind Man's Bluff
A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the stree...
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Rending
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight....
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated...
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Oedipus Rex
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and t...
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Xavier
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find ...
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Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This...
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Love Lights
The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over...
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Around Rocha’s Table
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within ...
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Man of the Crowds
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret....
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Change of Life
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the P...
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The Uncertainty Principle
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family....
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I’m Going Home
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when...
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Versailles
An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moment...
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Adriana
In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or childre...
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Malvadez
Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the...
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violenc...
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Abraham's Valley
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth ...
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Cold Day
A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a wint...
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Treblinka
Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI centu...
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Ossos
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the trouble...
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Sunday Afternoon
Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, un...
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Magic Mirror
Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfre...
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The Strange Case of Angelica
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter...
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Vanity
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina ...
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The Conversation Is Over
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless...
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The Jester
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in...
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The Heart's Root
Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old to...
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Nights
The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple l...
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Inquietude
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The I...
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Weil ich dich liebe
Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a flee...
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Hard Times
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of t...
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Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia
On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new vi...
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Two Brothers, My Sister
This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as sh...
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Portugal Não Está à Venda
The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minist...
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The Mountains of the Moon
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shi...
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Rage
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hung...
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Cold Land
In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries t...
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From Now On
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her invol...
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Alex
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared i...
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Ashes and Embers
Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange allo...
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Three Bridges on the River
Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sen...
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Guardian Angel
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a me...
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The Frog and the Girl
Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga»....
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Moral Order
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the soc...
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Journey to Portugal
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a d...
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Coma
Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his com...
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the or...
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Nadine
A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and extrem...
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Lourdes
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears...
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The Pedal Push Car
During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the sentime...
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Agosto
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach ...
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Aniversário
The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, cele...
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Sunday
On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a sleep...
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Fatima
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witn...
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Medea Miracle
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act ...
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Pax
Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important packag...
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The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of t...
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