Isabel Ruth Movies
- 2025

The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors02025HD
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of the World. A commission by Serralves Foundation to...
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- 1999

Three Bridges on the River
Three Bridges on the River7.31999HD
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...
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- 1999

Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel81999HD
Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her a message on phone recorder, revealing a...
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- 1989

Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale8.31989HD
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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- 1967

Change of Life
Change of Life7.11967HD
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to...
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- 2001

Man of the Crowds
Man of the Crowds92001HD
Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.
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- 2000

Moonfish
Moonfish5.82000HD
A summer film. About summers. Two seasons splitting it apart by half a dozen years, the youth years – time it takes its characters to realise...
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- 2004

The Pedal Push Car
The Pedal Push Car6.72004HD
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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- 2019

Portugal Não Está à Venda
Portugal Não Está à Venda2.52019HD
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,...
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- 2020

Moral Order
Moral Order5.52020HD
In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural and family luxury in...
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- 1963

The Green Years
The Green Years71963HD
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...
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- 2021

Around Rocha’s Table
Around Rocha’s Table02021HD
'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find, within his personal and professional...
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- 2000

The Heart's Root
The Heart's Root62000HD
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...
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- 1999

Appassionate
Appassionate81999HD
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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- 1987

The Jester
The Jester6.81987HD
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells...
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- 1994

Blind Man's Bluff
Blind Man's Bluff71994HD
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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- 2000

Lourdes
Lourdes7.22000HD
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...
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- 2011

E o Tempo Passa
E o Tempo Passa4.52011HD
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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- 2023

Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After72023HD
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,...
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- 1992

Cold Land
Cold Land41992HD
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...
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