Movies: Isabel Ruth

  • 2023
    Primeira Obra

    Primeira Obra (2023)

    Primeira Obra

    12023HD

    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, a work from 1980, also directed by Rui Simões. This opens the door to a parallel between the realit...

    Primeira Obra
  • 1966
    Sunday Afternoon

    Sunday Afternoon (1966)

    Sunday Afternoon

    7.21966HD

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

    Sunday Afternoon
  • 2000
    Peixe-Lua

    Peixe-Lua (2000)

    Peixe-Lua

    5.42000HD

    The story of a family of bull fighters....

    Peixe-Lua
  • 1997
    Ossos

    Ossos (1997)

    Ossos

    6.81997HD

    After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live....

    Ossos
  • 1998
    Guardian Angel

    Guardian Angel (1998)

    Guardian Angel

    81998HD

    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 wrote. However Lúcia can't find it in her father's house. On that visit she ends up meeting with her mo...

    Guardian Angel
  • 1991
    Xavier

    Xavier (1991)

    Xavier

    6.81991HD

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

    Xavier
  • 1987
    The Mountains of the Moon

    The Mountains of the Moon (1987)

    The Mountains of the Moon

    5.31987HD

    This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki Shikibu. Set in modern Portugal, Joao (Luis Miguel Cintra) is a left-wing political leader and ladies man with a bright future. His ex-wife Isabel (Manue...

    The Mountains of the Moon
  • 1992
    Cold Land

    Cold Land (1992)

    Cold Land

    2.51992HD

    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 furs, dreaming of the day he’ll close a big deal....

    Cold Land
  • 2022
    Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After

    Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (2022)

    Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After

    7.52022HD

    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, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of L...

    Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
  • 2015
    Ashes and Embers

    Ashes and Embers (2015)

    Ashes and Embers

    4.82015HD

    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 discipline is a vampire for the other, but rather as if they were the different faces of the same c...

    Ashes and Embers
  • 1999
    Three Bridges on the River

    Three Bridges on the River (1999)

    Three Bridges on the River

    71999HD

    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 questions. He has to go to Lisbon to meet an eminent historian whose work is the subject of his thesis. Hav...

    Three Bridges on the River
  • 1999
    Appassionate

    Appassionate (1999)

    Appassionate

    01999HD

    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 was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her a...

    Appassionate
  • 1993
    Coma

    Coma (1993)

    Coma

    01993HD

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

    Coma
  • 2016
    Treblinka

    Treblinka (2016)

    Treblinka

    22016HD

    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 post-war "Never Again" sounds now like a fairy tale. Everything is happening again. Everywhere....

    Treblinka
  • 1967
    Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia

    Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia (1967)

    Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia

    61967HD

    "Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal to step outside the theater, set in motion by Aldo Braibanti —a 'place' where, through the individual real-life experiences that actors brought with them ...

    Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia
  • 1994
    Pax

    Pax (1994)

    Pax

    01994HD

    Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and only knows that the recipient's name is João. When she meets an old prostitute, Esmeralda, the two join ...

    Pax
  • 2011
    Journey to Portugal

    Journey to Portugal (2011)

    Journey to Portugal

    6.72011HD

    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 only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interr...

    Journey to Portugal
  • 1998
    River of Gold

    River of Gold (1998)

    River of Gold

    6.71998HD

    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 operator Antonio. Not long after their union, she becomes intensely jealous of Antonio's fondness for t...

    River of Gold
  • 2013
    Versailles

    Versailles (2013)

    Versailles

    5.82013HD

    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....

    Versailles
  • 2000
    Nights

    Nights (2000)

    Nights

    52000HD

    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 people who made mistakes in life, but who still continue to seek happiness. It is about the despair o...

    Nights