Arturo Ripstein

Biography

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 port…

Directed

1. The Virgin of Lust (2002) — Director
2. Devil Between the Legs (2019) — Director
3. Castle of Purity (1973) — Director
4. Dulce Desafío (1988) — Director
5. The Place Without Limits (1978) — Director
6. Deep Crimson (1996) — Director
7. Aunt Alejandra (1980) — Director
8. No One Writes to the Colonel (1999) — Director
9. The Black Widow (1983) — Director
10. Life Sentence (1979) — Director
11. Simplemente Maria (1989) — Director
12. Time to Die (1966) — Director
13. The Realm of Fortune (1986) — Director
14. The Holy Inquisition (1974) — Director
15. Foxtrot (1976) — Director
16. The Beginning and the End (1994) — Director
17. Such is Life (2001) — Director
18. Woman of the Port (1996) — Director
19. Divine (1998) — Director
20. The Queen of the Night (1994) — Director
21. Bleak Street (2015) — Director
22. Dangerous Game (1967) — Director
23. The Reasons of the Heart (2011) — Director
24. Love Lies (1989) — Director
25. The Ruination of Men (2000) — Director
26. Memories of the Future (1969) — Director
27. El otro (1986) — Director
28. Crazy Carnival (2006) — Director
29. Lecumberri, the Dark Palace (1977) — Director
30. Trail of Death (1981) — Director
31. Seduction (1981) — Director
32. The Children's Hour (1969) — Director
33. The Illegal (1979) — Director
34. The Castaway on the Street of Providence (1971) — Director
35. Exorcismos (1970) — Director
36. La belleza (1970) — Director
37. Triángulo (1992) — Director
38. La sonrisa del Diablo (1992) — Director
39. The Drunkard (1976) — Director
40. Los héroes y el tiempo (2005) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Queen of Spain (2016) — Sam Spiegelman
2. Jugaremos en el bosque (2024) — Don Francisco (Patriarca)
3. The Specter's Road (1967) — Matilde's Son
4. Speaking of Buñuel (2000) — Self
5. The Flight of the Stork (1979) — Cliente banco
6. Familiarities (1969)
7. There Are No Thieves in This Village (1965)
8. Cuartelazo (1977) — Embajador
9. Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999) — Self
10. Los novios de mis hijas (1964)
11. Trail of Death (1981)
12. Mariana (1968)
13. Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015) — Self
14. The African Lover (1985)
15. Adriana del Rio, actriz (1979) — Self
16. Internet Junkie (2015) — Roberto
17. Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel (2002) — Himself
18. Recuerdo De Mi Presentación (2020) — V.O. Sacerdote
19. One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo (2017) — Self
20. Memoria de Los Olvidados (2025) — Narrator (voice)
21. Where Is Juan Moctezuma? (2025) — Self