Isabel Ruth Movies

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...

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

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

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...

A film by Lionello Massobrio.

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 young German journalist Samuel comes to meet Alma Bentes, a renowned Portuguese writer. Over small trips, Samuel records, trilling, fragments...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Franny (Amanda Plummer), an absent-minded American girl, is in Lisbon to deliver an important package. Unfortunately she has lost the address and...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...