10-12-1916
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Alfredo Ripstein, Alfred Ripstein, Alfredo Ripstein hijo
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Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, México
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10-12-1916
Birthday
Sagittarius
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Alfredo Ripstein Jr. , Alfredo Ripstein, Alfred Ripstein, Alfredo Ripstein hijo
Also Known As (male)
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, México
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40 Works
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The Crime of Padre Amaro
Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.Year:
2002
Otilia Rauda
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face.Year:
2002
Divine
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".Year:
1998
Midaq Alley
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava, who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband.Year:
1995
The Beginning and the End
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.Year:
1994
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.Year:
1974
Chabelo y Pepito detectives
A commanding friend Pepito and Chabelo ask them to help uncover a gang who kidnaps children. They accept and are out to steal to join the band. Whenthey find that the band mesmerizes children with toys and then the kids are controlled by young boys and they controlled in turn by strangers with long hair and blue eyes.Year:
1974
Chabelo and Pepito vs. the Monsters
An ordinary day's hike gets rough when two youngsters escape from the main group into the woods and, after finding a grotto, discover that there is more to it than just darkness.Year:
1973
Pepito y la lámpara maravillosa
Pepito The child misbehaves because his stepfather is scolding. Buy a sauceboat but when his cat rubs it a genie appears. The child understands that it is the magic lamp and asked all sorts of goodies and the solution of their tasks, but when he needs money stepfather tells of genius. The stepfather asked to topple his partner's plane. Pepito refuses and flees with the lamp and throws it into a river to avoid falling into its power. The stepfather drowns while trying to rescue him.Year:
1972
Triángulo
The story of Mother and Daughter for a Husband and Stepfather who was killed by shotgun.Year:
1972
Rosario
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...Year:
1971
Memories of the Future
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.Year:
1969
The Devil's Visitations
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.Year:
1968
Crown of Tears
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.Year:
1968
Dangerous Game
Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de JaneiroYear:
1967
La muerte es puntual
Lurid crime drama about drug traffic.Year:
1967
Time to Die
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.Year:
1966
El hombre de la ametralladora
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.Year:
1961
Mark of the Dead Man
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.Year:
1961
Cómicos y canciones
Reporter/photographer team have risen to their level of incompetence at their newspaper.Year:
1960
The Living Coffin
A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.Year:
1959
Del suelo no paso
Poetic-type dude gets mixed up with gangsters, a millionaire's dog and some stolen jewels.Year:
1959
Black Pit of Dr. M
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive.Year:
1959
Raffles
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1958
The Vampire
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.Year:
1957
Swamp of the Lost Monster
A disappearing body leads a detective and his sidekick into an encounter with a gill man.Year:
1957
Policías y ladrones
When an inexperienced police officer discovers a corpse while inspecting a crime scene, he flees with no explanation. However, that action will help his unit to recover some stolen jewels during a robbery.Year:
1956
Una mujer en la calle
An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.Year:
1955
Orquídeas para mi esposa
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1954
Dos mundos y un amor
Cultural differences cause tensions in an international marriage.Year:
1954
Mi adorada Clementina
A woman in an unhappy marriage trades places with her grandmother's ghost; Grandma whupps the girl's husband into line AND proves to her own husband that she was innocent of the infidelity that he was suspecting when she died, fifty years earlier.Year:
1953
Crazy Love
Slapstick/musical comedy parody of historical dramas, send-up of "Locura de amor," about Queen Juana 'la loca' of Spain.Year:
1953
Passionate
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.Year:
1952
Una gringuita en México
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!Year:
1951
Cuando acaba la noche
Newspaper reporter interests himself in contesting a manslaughter verdict on behalf of the son of a woman who saves his life.Year:
1950
Cartas Marcadas
A tale of intrigue and deceit concerning two young lovers who, despite the fact that their relationship was originally founded on greed, soon discover that their feelings for one and other have grown more genuine than they ever expected.Year:
1948
La barca de oro
Ranch-heiress chooses a husband.Year:
1947
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
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1947
Every Man’s Woman
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.Year:
1946
México de mis recuerdos
After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.Year:
1944
