Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

Born: December 13, 1943
in Mexico City, Mexico
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.

Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."

Movies for Arturo Ripstein...

Jugaremos en el bosque
Title: Jugaremos en el bosque
Character: Don Francisco (Patriarca)
Released: May 1, 2024
Type: Movie
After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a new beginning, but his grandmother refuses.
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Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
Title: Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
Character: V.O. Sacerdote
Released: January 13, 2020
Type: Movie
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The Queen of Spain
Title: The Queen of Spain
Character: Sam Spiegelman
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
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Internet Junkie
Title: Internet Junkie
Released: October 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and tenderness. They project themselves as superheroes, with infinity of friends and hypersex. They live asphyxiated in front of their machines, unable to live with the people that surround them, exasperated for finding a pinch of love in the fantasy of the net. Outside the virtual world, they do not exist.
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Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Title: Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Character: Himself
Released: April 2, 2002
Type: Movie
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Speaking of Buñuel
Title: Speaking of Buñuel
Character: Himself
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Title: Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
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The African Lover
Title: The African Lover
Released: September 19, 1985
Type: Movie
A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and revenge to the investigating detective.
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Trail of Death
Title: Trail of Death
Released: November 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
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Adriana del Rio, actriz
Title: Adriana del Rio, actriz
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Flight of the Stork
Title: The Flight of the Stork
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?
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Cuartelazo
Title: Cuartelazo
Character: Embajador
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
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Familiarities
Title: Familiarities
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
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The Specter's Road
Title: The Specter's Road
Character: Matilde's Son
Released: December 28, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
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There Are No Thieves in This Village
Title: There Are No Thieves in This Village
Released: September 9, 1965
Type: Movie
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
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Los novios de mis hijas
Title: Los novios de mis hijas
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.