Isabel Ruth
Acting
Biography
Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1963.
Born: April 6, 1940
Place of Birth: Tomar, Portugal
Known For
Alta Definição
In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.
Guardian Angel
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 mother, a known political activist with whom she has a distant and tense relationship. In hope of finding the letter, Lúcia leaves to the farm where she grew up, on an isolated location. There she reencounters Álvaro, an old childhood companion, who shares a little life time he has left between roses and the piano, and the guardian angel that follows and protects her through nocturnal wanderings.
Wild Land
To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger brother. Diogo, a decorated military officer, finds out that Eduarda is responsible for the destruction of his family. He returns to his homeland to take revenge, but falls in love with her daughter, Beatriz, who is married to Tiago, his biological brother.
Maigret
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
The Mutants
Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.
Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After
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 Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.
Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale
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 messes up, he loses a lot of money, his girlfriend Kate's money. Alone, desperate and on the run from a couple of hit-men, he applies for a job as an entertainer's assistant becoming a dancing bear. Unwittingly learning of secrets around him, his past catches up with him.
Abraham's Valley
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, to whom she is not attracted. They move to the valley of Abraham. Carlos loves her, but decides to sleep in a separate room to avoid waking Ema when he has to return late at night. As time goes by she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so she finds a new lover.
Agosto
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, everything seems lost in time.
Change of Life
After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to the Portuguese fishing village he calls home, only to find that the woman he loves has married his brother. Overcome by bitterness, he sets off to find work in the countryside where he meets Albertina, a free-spirited young woman who challenges him to change his life.
Filmography
as Mãe
as Vidente
as Self
as Avó
as Old Woman
as Mercedes Ferreira
as Lídia Dias
as Amanda Carrusca
as Deolinda
as Laura
as Amélia
as Dulce
as La maîtresse
as Woman
as Inspetora
as La femme sans abri
as Renata
as Criada
as Self
as Mãe
as Dona Inez
as Celsa Andrade
as Estela
as Abuela
as Nela Calheiros
as Celsa
as Aninhas
as Dr. Zita Portugal
as Milkmaid
as Dr. Figueira
as Marta
as Tia Judite
as Ju
as Conceição
as Cliente Mulher
as Professor's Assistant
as Isabel
as Lúcia
as Marta
as Carolina
as Nurse Eduarda Gomes
as Saleswoman
as Voice of Mother (voice)
as Ritinha
as Rita
as La femme de chambre
as Teacher
as Henriqueta
as Laura
as Self
as Woman
as Mrs J
as Sebastião's Wife
as Carlos' neighbor
as Ilda / Dona Teresa
as Americana Louca
as Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
as Albertina
as Lúcia
as Ilda