Isabel Ruth Movies

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Bonaiuto

Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Lionel Stander

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Moreira

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD based on the documentary The Good People of...

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Cast: Zé Bernardino

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rita Durão

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries another late-in-life character, the dredging-boat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rui Gomes

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost memories, leading her to question not only her love life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sofia Aparício

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rogério Samora

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the street where he begs every day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

The story of a family of bull fighters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Beatriz Batarda

A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ricardo Aibéo

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which decimated the country. Some years later, of all the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Silvana Mangano

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963. This was our starting point: guided by Rocha's gaze,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isabel Ruth

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it, over its essence and its multiple manifestations in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Acácio de Almeida

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paulo Rocha

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldo del Rey

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Baldaque

Short film.

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Cast: Márcia Breia

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rui Pedro Silva

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Piccoli

An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moments of clarity, she will persuade him to kill her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Arrais

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or children anymore... The island gets desolate and he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ana Moreira

Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of the big city is not exactly how he remembers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pedro Hestnes

Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by violence and dishonesty, Johnny lives with Kate. Johnny...

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Cast: Tom Waits

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her youth she marries Dr. Carlos Paiva, her father's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Silveira

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a winter in Lisbon, father, mother, son and daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adriano Luz

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI century: Poland, Russia, Ukraine. The slogan of the...

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Cast: Isabel Ruth

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariya Lipkina

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruy de Carvalho

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonor Silveira

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pilar López de Ayala

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Cabral Martins

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernando Heitor

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a couple lost in drugs. Nights can be seen as the story of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: João Pereira

Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a fleeting glance in hot summer Lisbon and knew - this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Felicitas Woll

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henrique Viana

"Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal to step outside the theater, set in motion by Aldo...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lou Castel

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches her family fall apart. Maria is the shy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime minister's plan of selling the country to China,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pedro Teixeira

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquim de Almeida

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of...

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Cast: António Pedro Figueiredo

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ricardo Colares

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange alloy of literature and cinema, and not in the way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth

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Cast: Luís Miguel Cintra

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a sensitive man, full of existential doubts and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne Balibar

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canto e Castro

Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Isabel Ruth

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maria de Medeiros

Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Anconina

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

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Cast: Monic Hendrickx

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alessandro Gassmann

During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the sentimental chronicle of a nine years old boy: Pablito....

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Cast: Álex Angulo

The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Vieira

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christian Patey

On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a sleeping young actor (Joaozinho Costa)

Genre: Romance

Cast: Isabel Ruth

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harvey Keitel

Genre: Drama

Cast: Giulietta De Bernardi

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Huppert

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabel Ruth