Ruy Furtado Filmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • A Divina Comedia

    Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Luis Miguel Cintra, Mario Viegas, Leonor Silveira

    Synopsis: In this symbolic and philosophically weighty film, all of the inhabitants of a Portuguese mental asylum suffer from religious delusions of one kind or another -- even the cynic who denies the value of any religions at all. One couple re-enacts the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden, and then the Read More

    1991

  • Hard Times

    Actors: Henrique Viana, Joaquim Mendes, Julia Britton, Ruy Furtado, Eunice Munoz

    Synopsis: This classy drama is an updated version of Dickens' novel. Filmed entirely in black and white, the tale is set in the Portuguese industrial town of Poco do Mundo (World's End). The story centers on the schoolmaster's two children. The sister is married to a prominent factory owner. She is terribly Read More

    1989

  • Recordaçoes da casa amarela

    Actors: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Sabina Sacchi, Ruy Furtado

    Synopsis: This quirky Portuguese comedy won a silver lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. The story concerns the irrepressible Joao de Deus (played by the director, Joao Cesar Monteiro), an ill-kempt, lusty and none-too-honest resident of Violeta's boarding house, which happens to have yellow walls. Joao Read More

    1989

  • Doc's Kingdom

    Actors: Paul McIsaac, Vincent Gallo, Ruy Furtado, Cesar Monteiro, Roslyn Payne

    Synopsis: Grieving Jimmy (Vincent Gallo) is shocked to learn after his mother's death that his long-lost father Doc (Paul McIssac) is alive and living somewhere in Europe. Jimmy goes in search of his father, a former radical Weatherman from the 1960s who fled the country during the turbulent decade. Read More

    1989

  • Um Adeus Portugues

    Actors: Isabel de Castro

    Synopsis: In a melancholy and well-photographed tale, a Portuguese family is in mourning over the loss of one of their sons, a young man who was killed in Mozambique. During the mid-1970s, Mozambique rebelled against 450 years of Portuguese colonial domination and after much bloodshed, independence was Read More

    1985

  • O Lugar Do Morto

    Actors: Ana Zanatti, Pedro Oliveira

    Synopsis: This plodding whodunit features Pedro Oliveira as Alvaro, a newspaper reporter who comes across a man and woman arguing on the beach, and after obligingly driving the woman around when she seeks him out, he takes her back to discover the man has been murdered. The woman, Ana (Ana Zanatti) takes Read More

    1985

  • Silvestre

    Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luis Miguel Cintra

    Synopsis: Director Joao Cesar Monteiro has posed his actors in front of painted backdrops to act out the two 15th-c. fables that form the basis for this theatrical-literary film. Because of its static style, as though moving from one literary illustration to the other, the film does achieve some sense of Read More

    1981

  • Cerromaior

    Actors: Clara Joana

    Synopsis: The setting for this compelling socio-political drama is the provincial town of Cerromaior during the Spanish Civil War. The gap between the landless peasants and the landed gentry is cavernous and reflected in the barren landscape around the town. An episodic structure illustrates the tensions Read More

    1981

  • Oxala

    Actors: Laura Soveral, Judith Magre, Ruy Furtado

    1980

  • Amor de Perdicao

    Actors: Christie Houser, Antonio Sequeira Lopes, Henrique Viana

    Synopsis: This four-hour epic romance in the style of Romeo and Juliet is based on an 1862 novel by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco. Set in the seaside town of Oporto, the romantic tragedy centers on the doomed love affair between two teens; Teresa (Cristina Hauser) and her lover Simao (Antonio Sequeira Lopes Read More

    1978

  • Uma Abelha Na Chuva

    Synopsis: This Portuguese drama examines the minutae of the daily life and intrigues of two scions of society in the rural village they live in. One is a wealthy landowner, the other a widowed aristocrat who lives in a world of her own. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

    1972

  • O Ladrao de Quem Se Fala

    1969

  • A Cruz de Ferro

    Actors: Jorge Brum do Canto, Cremilda Gil

    Synopsis: Two young lovers in a mountain region are drawn apart by rival factions. The young girl belongs to the shepherd society who dominate the region and own all the water rights for themselves and the town below the mountains. When she dares to love a boy from the village below, she is required to cut Read More

    1968

  • Nove Rapazes E Um Cao

    1963

  • Os Verdes Anos

    Actors: Isabel Ruth

    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. When she refuses his offer because of their difference in social class, the young man becomes enraged and then mentally unglued Read More

    1963

  • Sonho de Amor

    1945

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