Isabel Ruth
Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1963.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.741 |
| Birthday | 1940-04-06 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Also Known As |
1999
Appassionate
0/0
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...
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Appassionate
1969
H2S
5.6/10
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then ret...
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H2S
1998
The Mutants
7.2/10
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by...
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The Mutants
2023
Primeira Obra
1/1
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 Portugal,...
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Primeira Obra
2012
A Woman's Revenge
6/9
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 Rober...
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A Woman's Revenge
1998
River of Gold
6.5/6
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 ope...
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River of Gold
1963
The Green Years
6.9/26
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 young...
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The Green Years
2011
E o Tempo Passa
4/2
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...
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E o Tempo Passa
2002
O Delfim
6/7
A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing. He oversees his estate, the Laguna, with his barren w...
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O Delfim
1994
Blind Man's Bluff
6.7/10
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.
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Blind Man's Bluff
2000
Peixe-Lua
5/4
The story of a family of bull fighters.
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Peixe-Lua
2001
Rending
6/3
A philosophy-obsessed serial rapist stalks a university campus in broad daylight.
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Rending
2013
If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
5.1/5
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 brother...
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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal
1967
Oedipus Rex
6.8/344
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 tak...
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Oedipus Rex
1991
Xavier
6.4/7
Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to find his world closing in on him.
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Xavier
2022
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
8/1
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, w...
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Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
2022
Love Lights
0/0
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...
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Love Lights
2021
Around Rocha’s Table
0/0
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional relationships, a key...
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Around Rocha’s Table
2001
Man of the Crowds
0/0
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.
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Man of the Crowds
1967
Change of Life
7.2/18
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to f...
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Change of Life
2002
The Uncertainty Principle
4.9/5
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
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The Uncertainty Principle
1996
A Fachada
0/0
Short film.
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A Fachada
2024
Romagem
0/0
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Romagem
2001
I’m Going Home
6.9/27
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law...
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I’m Going Home
2013
Versailles
5.2/4
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.
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Versailles
2005
Adriana
0/0
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 decid...
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Adriana
1990
Malvadez
6.3/3
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
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Malvadez
1989
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
7/1
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 m...
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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
1993
Abraham's Valley
7.5/37
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 friend,...
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Abraham's Valley
2009
Cold Day
5/2
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 tra...
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Cold Day
2016
Treblinka
2/1
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 po...
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Treblinka
1997
Ossos
6.8/41
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the...
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Ossos
1966
Sunday Afternoon
7/4
Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood diseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill you...
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Sunday Afternoon
2006
Magic Mirror
6.4/8
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 that her gr...
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Magic Mirror
2010
The Strange Case of Angelica
6.56/58
A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens o...
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The Strange Case of Angelica
2004
Vanity
4.5/4
Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by Regina Guimarães, the film brings together actresses Isab...
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Vanity
1982
The Conversation Is Over
5.1/7
The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchang...
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The Conversation Is Over
1987
The Jester
6.5/8
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells g...
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The Jester
2000
The Heart's Root
5/2
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 politi...
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The Heart's Root
1998
Anxiety
6.4/8
An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In "The Immortals," adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro p...
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Anxiety
2000
Nights
5/3
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 p...
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Nights
2016
Weil ich dich liebe
0/0
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 i...
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Weil ich dich liebe
1988
Hard Times
6.2/4
A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town of the 1980s.
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Hard Times
1967
Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia
6/5
"Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal to step outside the theater, set in motion by Aldo Bra...
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Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia
1994
Two Brothers, My Sister
5.2/4
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...
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Two Brothers, My Sister
2019
Portugal Não Está à Venda
4/1
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, Germany...
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Portugal Não Está à Venda
1987
The Mountains of the Moon
5.3/3
This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Ci...
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The Mountains of the Moon
2018
Rage
6.8/14
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 r...
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Rage
1992
Cold Land
2.5/2
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 fox fur...
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Cold Land
2008
From Now On
2/1
Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and h...
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From Now On
1991
Alex
6/5
The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.
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Alex
2015
Ashes and Embers
4.8/4
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 one...
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Ashes and Embers
2000
Erros Meus
0/0
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Erros Meus
1999
Three Bridges on the River
7/2
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 questio...
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Three Bridges on the River
1998
Guardian Angel
0/0
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a letter he wro...
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Guardian Angel
2018
The Frog and the Girl
0/0
Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a Rapariga». The laundry room is closed and a young woman (Rit...
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The Frog and the Girl
2020
Moral Order
5.7/9
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in which she lives...
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Moral Order
2011
Journey to Portugal
6.5/9
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 onl...
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Journey to Portugal
1993
Coma
0/0
Victim of a train accident, a man regains consciousness in the house of the woman who shared his compartment.
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Coma
1997
Voyage to the Beginning of the World
6.6/17
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 fathe...
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Voyage to the Beginning of the World
2007
Nadine
5.4/5
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Nadine
2000
Lourdes
6.8/4
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 the...
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Lourdes
2004
The Pedal Push Car
5/2
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. P...
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The Pedal Push Car
2000
Aniversário
0/0
The anniversary, celebrating the thirty years of the marriage of Francisco and Leonor Teixeira, celebrated on their family farm. It is time to party a...
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Aniversário
1988
Agosto
6.8/4
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, ever...
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Agosto
2018
Sunday
0/0
On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a sleeping young actor (Joaozinho Costa)
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Sunday
2020
Fatima
7.271/179
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who t...
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Fatima
2000
Ophelia Afar
0/0
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Ophelia Afar
2011
Medea Miracle
3.8/2
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...
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Medea Miracle
2010
Amor Cego
0/0
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Amor Cego
1994
Pax
0/0
Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only...
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