Isabel Ruth

Born: 1940-04-06

Isabel Ruth (born 6 April 1940) is a Portuguese actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1963.


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Fatima

as Old Woman
Released: 2020-08-13

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins...

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Oedipus Rex

as Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
Released: 1967-09-07

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son -...

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Abraham's Valley

as Ritinha
Released: 1993-09-01

Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. In her...

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The Strange Case of Angelica

as Criada
Released: 2010-12-29

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased...

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Voyage to the Beginning of the World

as Olga
Released: 1997-05-16

Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of...

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Change of Life

as Albertina
Released: 1967-04-20

After completing his military service in the Angolan War of Independence, Adelino goes back to...

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I’m Going Home

as Milkmaid
Released: 2001-05-13

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken...

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Ossos

as Nurse Eduarda Gomes
Released: 1997-11-14

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the...

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Moral Order

as Avó
Released: 2020-09-10

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the...

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The Green Years

as Ilda
Released: 1963-11-29

Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his...

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Rage

as Amanda Carrusca
Released: 2018-10-31

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and...

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The Mutants

as Isabel
Released: 1998-11-27

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while...

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The Jester

as Ilda / Dona Teresa
Released: 1987-10-31

Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese...

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A Woman's Revenge

as Woman
Released: 2012-03-29

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved,...

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Lourdes

as uncredited
Released: 2000-05-29

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary...

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Magic Mirror

as Celsa Andrade
Released: 2006-03-09

Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy...

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Alex

as Teacher
Released: 1991-02-16

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents,...

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Anxiety

as Marta
Released: 1998-05-19

An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In...

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Portugal Não Está à Venda

as Lídia Dias
Released: 2019-02-21

The hypochondriac Sebastião and his not so normal family must save the country from the prime...

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E o Tempo Passa

as Renata
Released: 2011-03-10

Teresa is a soap-opera actress. Meeting again an old passion brings her back apparently lost...

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The Uncertainty Principle

as Celsa
Released: 2002-05-17

Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.

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H2S

as uncredited
Released: 1969-09-05

Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a...

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River of Gold

as Carolina
Released: 1998-05-18

Carolina, an aging local grande dame who works at a crossing point on the titular river, marries...

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O Delfim

as Aninhas
Released: 2002-03-13

A wealthy landowner, "The Dauphin," enjoys a decadent life of hunting, drinking, and womanizing....

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If I Were a Thief... I'd Steal

as uncredited
Released: 2013-09-10

1920s. Vitalino, a small farmer from São Vicente sees his father die of the epidemic which...

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Weil ich dich liebe

as Amélia
Released: 2016-02-23

Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a...

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Blind Man's Bluff

as Saleswoman
Released: 1994-11-18

A blind beggar is robbed of his chest of money. The theft leads to a dramatic situation in the...

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Nadine

as Dona Inez
Released: 2007-10-25

A career woman's finds her biological clock ticking heavily, making her jump to impulsive and...

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Rending

as Dr. Zita Portugal
Released: 2001-11-30

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

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Peixe-Lua

as Conceição
Released: 2000-09-29

The story of a family of bull fighters.

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Xavier

as Laura
Released: 1991-01-01

Xavier returns to Lisbon after a military stint, determined to lead a meaningful life, only to...

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Vanity

as Nela Calheiros
Released: 2004-01-01

Vanitas is the new feature film by veteran Portuguese director Paulo Rocha. With a script by...

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Medea Miracle

as La femme sans abri
Released: 2011-03-30

Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an...

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Hard Times

as Sebastião's Wife
Released: 1988-08-29

A film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel "Hard Times" set in a Portuguese industrial town...

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The Heart's Root

as Ju
Released: 2000-10-18

Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the...

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Two Brothers, My Sister

as Voice of Mother (voice)
Released: 1994-11-04

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman...

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Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale

as Mrs J
Released: 1989-11-05

Johnny Fortune (Damon Lowry) is no good to anyone, not mean, but just no good. Surrounded by...

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Three Bridges on the River

as Professor's Assistant
Released: 1999-04-07

Arthur is a history teacher who lives alone in Paris after having broken up with Claire. He is a...

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Cold Land

as Rita
Released: 1992-06-22

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo...

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The Mountains of the Moon

as uncredited
Released: 1987-09-01

This visually striking drama is taken from the classic Japanese novel Tales Of Genji by Marasaki...

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Journey to Portugal

as Inspetora
Released: 2011-06-16

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also...

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Guardian Angel

as uncredited
Released: 1998-01-01

Lúcia is an independent woman who lives alone in Lisbon. Her father commits suicide leaving her...

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From Now On

as Mãe
Released: 2008-01-01

Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her...

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Agosto

as Carlos' neighbor
Released: 1988-05-05

Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the...

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The Conversation Is Over

as uncredited
Released: 1982-05-13

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It...

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Sunday Afternoon

as Lúcia
Released: 1966-04-13

Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a Medical Doctor, researcher on blood...

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Ashes and Embers

as Dulce
Released: 2015-04-26

Certainly an outstanding case of beauty and mystery, this short film by Mozos creates a strange...

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Adriana

as Estela
Released: 2005-04-21

In a remote island where mourning was settled, a man decreed that there will never be sex or...

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Versailles

as uncredited
Released: 2013-07-12

An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief...

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Coma

as uncredited
Released: 1993-06-04

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

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Malvadez

as Woman
Released: 1990-06-01

Coming from Fundão to Lisboa where he did conscription service, Matias found that the reality of...

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Love Lights

as uncredited
Released: 2022-08-03

The evocation of light in the cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to ponder over it,...

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The Pedal Push Car

as Abuela
Released: 2004-01-16

During Holy Week of 59 in the tragicomic social landscape of Franco's Spain, takes place the...

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Appassionate

as uncredited
Released: 1999-09-03

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters,...

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Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After

as uncredited
Released: 2022-08-05

From our window one can see a set of the film The Green Years, directed by Paulo Rocha in 1963....

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Transfert Per Kamera Verso Virulentia

as Self
Released: 1967-01-01

"Virulentia was, above all, a place of theatrical experimentation and simultaneously a proposal...

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Man of the Crowds

as Dr. Figueira
Released: 2001-04-18

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

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Treblinka

as uncredited
Released: 2016-04-20

Present, past and future merge in the wagons of a train that crosses Eastern Europe in the XXI...

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Primeira Obra

as uncredited
Released: 2023-04-30

Fiction is never very far from reality. A young man, of Portuguese heritage, decides to do a PhD...

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Around Rocha’s Table

as Self
Released: 2021-08-08

'A Távola de Rocha' enables us to enter Paulo Rocha’s universe, to gather memories and find,...

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Romagem

as uncredited
Released: 2024-05-29

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Nights

as Cliente Mulher
Released: 2000-09-22

The pain, the weakness, the silence, the despair. These are some of the feelings faced by a...

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Cold Day

as uncredited
Released: 2009-08-09

A portrait of a first relationship, previous to the external world, the one of the family. In a...

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The Frog and the Girl

as Deolinda
Released: 2018-04-27

Adaptation by the director Inês Oliveira from the traditional Portuguese tale «O Sapo e a...

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Sunday

as Laura
Released: 2018-01-01

On a Sunday an older actress (Isabel Ruth) decides to use her mobile phone to take photos of a...

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Terra Brava

as Mercedes Ferreira
First aired: 2019-10-28

To avenge his dead parents, Diogo will have to destroy his lover's mom and face his younger...

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Maigret

as La femme de chambre
First aired: 1991-12-01

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried...

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Alta Definição

as Self
First aired: 2009-09-12

In Alta Definição, Daniel Oliveira interviews one guest every week with an intimate approach.

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Joaquim Letria

as Self
First aired: 1990-10-24

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Ajuste de Contas

as Marta
First aired: 2000-11-13

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Terra Instável

as Henriqueta
First aired: 1991-01-26

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Diário de Maria

as Lúcia
First aired: 1998-11-25

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The General

as uncredited
First aired: 2020-11-23

The plot addresses Maria Luísa's struggle for freedom, the struggle for rights and privileges...

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