Cast: Isabel Ruth

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Geraldo Del Rey · Isabel Ruth · Maria Barroso · Joao Guedes

Synopsis After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. Discouraged, the man meets a new girlfriend who...

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Rui Gomes · Isabel Ruth · Ruy Furtado · Paulo Renato

Synopsis A shoemaker in Lisbon is joined by his 18-year-old nephew who is willing to learn the trade. He falls in love with a 19-year-old woman and later proposes marriage.

Direction Rita Azevedo Gomes

Cast Rita Durão · Fernando Rodrigues · Hugo Tourita · Duarte Martins

Synopsis Rita Azevedo Gomes’ sumptuous, painterly and unabashedly theatrical adaptation of a short story from Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s 1874 anthology Les Diaboliques, tells the tale of Roberto, a bored, decadent dandy in the nightly pursuit of ever-harder-to-find distraction. One evening, his...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jean-Yves Gautier · Leonor Silveira · Diogo Dória

Synopsis Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello Mastroianni, in what would be his last film. Playing a filmmaker clearly based on Oliveira, Mastroianni takes three actor friends on...

Direction Sergio Trefaut

Cast María de Medeiros · Isabel Ruth · Makena Diop · Rebeca Close

Direction Sergio Trefaut

Cast Hugo Bentes · Isabel Ruth · Leonor Silveira · Caio Cesar

Synopsis A visual story about hunger, misery and exploitation in southern Portugal in the 1950's and about the growing rage and strength building up upon people.

Direction Pedro Costa

Cast Vanda Duarte · Nuno Vaz · Mariya Lipkina · Isabel Ruth

Synopsis Realizing that teenage mom Tina is about to gas herself and her new child, Tina's young boyfriend grabs the infant and takes it to the streets of Lisbon. What he does next comprises the bulk of this extremely downbeat, minimalist...

Direction Mário Barroso

Cast María de Medeiros · Marcello Urgeghe · João Pedro Mamede · João Arrais

Synopsis 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 to escape with a petty chauffeur, 26 years younger.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Ricardo Trepa · Leonor Silveira · Luis Miguel Cintra · Duarte de Almeida

Synopsis 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 greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich...

Direction Teresa Villaverde

Cast Ana Moreira · Alexandre Pinto · Nelson Varela · Alexandra Lencastre

Synopsis A bleak drama about street children abandoned by the Portuguese juvenile system. Os Mutantes examines the lives of Pedro, Ricardo and Andreia, three kids in their early teens who have rejected life in juvenile homes or with foster families to...

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Isabel Ruth · Lima Duarte · Joana Bárcia · João Cardoso

Synopsis Portugal, in the fifties. A stroll of jealousy, situated in a working class milieu, on the bloody banks of the river of gold. An old couple get married: she is a level-crossing keeper and he is the owner of a...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Leonor Baldaque · Leonor Silveira · Isabel Ruth · Ricardo Trepa

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Michel Piccoli · Catherine Deneuve · John Malkovich · Antoine Chappey

Synopsis After the deaths of his wife, daughter and son-in law, an ageing theatre actor cares for this grandson in Paris. When an American director miscasts him an adaptation of Joyce's 'Ulysses', he has to make a decision about his life.

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Glicínia Quartin · Rui de Carvalho · Beatriz Batarda

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · José Pinto · Irene Papas · Leonor Silveira

Direction Sergio Trefaut

Cast Isabel Ruth · Kiril Kashlikov

Direction Fernando Lopes

Cast Rogério Samora · Alexandra Lencastre · Rui Morisson · Isabel Ruth

Synopsis In fascist Portugal of the late sixties a rich landowner leads an idle life of hunting (animals and women), drinking and enjoying himself. He owns everything and everybody around him not only the objects, the horses, the dogs, the land...

Direction Marco Pontecorvo

Cast Harvey Keitel · Lucia Moniz · Goran Visnjic · Sônia Braga

Synopsis A trial of faith unfolds at the apex of World War I, when secrets are revealed to 3 courageous Portuguese children through a series of apparitions, while their doubting family and aggressive government officials try to silence them from sharing...

Direction Ramón Barea

Cast Álex Angulo · Rosana Pastor · Pablo Gómez · María Pastor

Direction Raquel Freire

Cast Ricardo Aibéo · Isabel Ruth · Ana Teresa Carvalhosa · Paula Marques

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