8.3
8.3
The Specter's Road
1967
as Matilde's Son
Arturo Ripstein
Also known as: Arturo Ripstein y Rosen
Directing
Born:December 13, 1943(age 82)
Birthplace:Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality:Mexico
Education:Ibero-American University
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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."
Filmography (64 movies)
7.3
7.3
The Place without Limits
1978
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
Castle of Purity
1973
Writer
7.2
7.2
The Beginning and the End
1994
Producer
7.0
7.0
Jugaremos en el bosque
2024
as Don Francisco (Patriarca)
7.0
7.0
Aunt Alejandra
1979
Director
6.8
6.8
The Virgin of Lust
2002
Director
6.8
6.8
Deep Crimson
1996
Director
6.8
6.8
Time to Die
1966
Director
6.7
6.7
Life Sentence
1979
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
The Black Widow
1977
Director
6.6
6.6
Devil Between the Legs
2019
Director
6.2
6.2
Familiarities
1969
6.1
6.1
Bleak Street
2015
Director
6.0
6.0
Los novios de mis hijas
1964
6.0
6.0
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
2002
as Himself
6.0
6.0
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
1971
Director
6.0
6.0
Seduction
1981
Director
6.0
6.0
The Ruination of Men
2000
Director
6.0
6.0
Trail of Death
1981
Director
5.9
5.9
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
5.9
5.9
The Holy Inquisition
1974
Director
5.8
5.8
La mujer del puerto
1996
Director
5.7
5.7
The Reasons of the Heart
2011
Director
5.5
5.5
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999
as Self
5.5
5.5
Whoever is Responsible
1971
Writer
5.5
5.5
Dangerous Game
1967
Director
5.4
5.4
The Realm of Fortune
1986
Director
5.3
5.3
No One Writes to the Colonel
1999
Director
5.3
5.3
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965
5.3
5.3
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
1974
Writer
5.2
5.2
Such is Life
2000
Director
5.2
5.2
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015
as Self
5.2
5.2
Lecumberri
1977
Director
5.2
5.2
The Queen of Spain
2016
as Sam Spiegelman
5.1
5.1
Divine
1998
Director
5.0
5.0
The African Lover
1985
5.0
5.0
Internet Junkie
2015
as Roberto
5.0
5.0
Adriana del Rio, actriz
1979
as Self
5.0
5.0
Mariana
1968
5.0
5.0
The Illegal
1979
Director
5.0
5.0
The Children's Hour
1969
Director
4.8
4.8
Love Lies
1989
Director
4.7
4.7
The Queen of the Night
1994
Director
4.6
4.6
Foxtrot
1976
Screenplay
4.4
4.4
El otro
1986
Director
4.4
4.4
Memories of the Future
1969
Writer
4.1
4.1
Crazy Carnival
2006
Director
4.1
4.1
The Flight of the Stork
1979
as Cliente banco
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
2020
as V.O. Sacerdote
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017
as Self
Memoria de Los Olvidados
2025
as Narrator (voice)
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
2025
as Self
Mi gran noche
2004
Director
Los héroes y el tiempo
2005
Director
Autobiografía
1970
Director
Exorcismos
1970
Director
Crimen
1970
Director
La belleza
1970
Director
El borracho
1976
Writer
Tiempo de Correr
TBA
Director
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
1974
Director
H.O.
1967
Director
Signos de vida y rebeldía
2016
Producer
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