Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

December 13, 1943 · 82 years old

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 tra…

Known For

10 titles
1
Dogtooth

Dogtooth

2009 · 1h 37m · Movie

A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.

7.1
2
The Castle of Purity

The Castle of Purity

1973 · 1h 50m · Movie

The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.

7.5
3
The Queen of Spain

The Queen of Spain

2016 · 2h 8m · Movie

Nearly twenty years after the events of "The Girl of Your Dreams." in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.

5.3
4
Deep Crimson

Deep Crimson

1996 · 1h 54m · Movie

The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.

7.2
5
The Place Without Limits

The Place Without Limits

1978 · 1h 50m · Movie

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close th...

7.5
6
Time to Die

Time to Die

1966 · 1h 30m · Movie

After serving his conviction, a former gunman returns to his town planning to live a quiet life, however, the sons of a man he killed have other plans.

7.4
7
Life Sentence

Life Sentence

1979 · 1h 35m · Movie

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

7.1
8
The Realm of Fortune

The Realm of Fortune

1986 · 2h 10m · Movie

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

7.2
9
The Holy Inquisition

The Holy Inquisition

1974 · 2h 7m · Movie

A gripping, shocking story of the Spanish Inquisition hunting Jews, believed to be the cause of a plague spreading in 16th century colonial Mexico. A monk reports a family practicing Jewish burial rites bringing devastating conseq...

7.2
10
The Reasons of the Heart

The Reasons of the Heart

2011 · 1h 59m · Movie

In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover a...

6.7
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