Movies: Ruth Silveira

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institu...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the fi...

TV reporter Rob Salinger longs for a baby. But his career-minded wife, Micki, is too busy for motherhood. A romantic fling with a seductive cellist, Maude, leads to her pregnancy. Rob receives another shock when Micki announces that she's also expect...

An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter....

A college student joins a group of revolutionaries to meet girls but ends up committed to their goals....

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband....

A failing television station is bought out by a slick TV evangelist and starts making mountains of money in the guise of religious programming, which is actually just an excuse to sell merchandise....

When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her....

A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school....

Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate ...

A homeless street character (Larry Hankin) tries to get free food from the night waitress (Ruth Silvera) in Solly's Diner. His plea is interrupted by a desperate business man (Roger Bowen) who pulls a gun and demands all the money in the cash registe...

Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but can't convince the others. During the discussions, she realizes that one member of the jury knows ...

Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) r...

Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressu...

A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family....

Four independent short films comprise this quirky anthology. "Coriolis Effect" (1994) is an offbeat love story involving storm chasers. In the Oscar-nominated "Solly's Diner" (1979), a homeless man (Larry Hankin, who also directs) witnesses a holdup....

In this dark and uplifting comedic short film, Death pays an unsuspecting Flora a visit telling her it's her time. However, Flora doesn't want to go....

Childhood friends Ian and Tim slowly realize that they’ve wasted their lives selling popcorn and participating in medical testing. Their hometown is a surreal nightmare, but they're too bored to notice....