Ruth Pelupessy
Also Known As: Ruth Pellupessy, Ruth Pelupesi
Biography: Ruth Pelupessy was an Indonesian actress, model, and businesswoman, who was crowned as the antagonist queen of Indonesia film after Suzzanna and Mieke Wijaya. She was born on 27 April 1938 in Bangka Island, Dutch East Indies, as the oldest daughter from the four children to Christina Moniyung and Jacob Pelupessy. Her sisters were Joice Wangi Pelupessy, Joyce Pelupessy, and Hanny Pelupessy. All of them was worked as a model and actress, and became the most popular stars on 1950s in Bandung.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bangka Island, North Sulawesi, Dutch East Indies
Adult: No
Birthday: April 27, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 21, 1996
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Puber
Overview: Four teenage girls from high school classmates form a gang that emphasizes solidarity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Satan's Slave
Overview: A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1980-01-31
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The Night of Kliwon Friday
Overview: Ayu Sutrisna, a novelist, is suffering from a specific phobia that makes her hands shake and cold sweat to break out. Her boyfriend, Anton, suggests a more laid-back atmosphere. So she takes a retreat in an old house owned by Anton’s father. Then two guards of the house die in a horrible way when they try to rape her, seemingly killed by demons. Finally, Anton’s father admits that in the past, his wife gave birth to a baby one Friday night, and was killed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Neraka Perempuan
Overview: Beginning with a flashback, Richard goes for a vacation at the hometown of his friend, Roni. There, he dates Roni’s sister, Katyana, and makes her pregnant. But Katyana chooses another young man who lives in the town, as she sees Richard falling for Nina, who has always been jealous of her. Richard leaves, leaving a necklace and swearing a furious oath that he will destroy all women. The flashback ends and we see Rizal, who is left by his mother, Katyana. Rizal is Richard’s son. He becomes a vagabond and is found in a weak condition by Roni and his daughter, Riana. He is taken care of until he is grown up. Then Roni is disabled after an accident and his wife, Nina, becomes a prostitute and joins a crime syndicate. When Rizal and Riana start to have an intimate relationship, Nina throws Rizal out of the house, and then he starts a job as a police informant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-04-17
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Antara Surga Dan Neraka
Overview: Three bachelors establish a service center for women, initially intended for sex, but instead it becomes a multi-purpose service agency. There is a grandmother who asks them to read comic books to her; there is also a woman who wants them to wash her carpets. But one of them always gets the most enjoyable part, which is the sex service for lonely women, or even to torture them by request. He also gets a girlfriend, who lives in Singapore, and accepts his profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1976-10-15
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Rahasia Perawan
Overview: Agus moved out of his huge house because his father, Raden Mas Sudewo, intended to marry Rahayu after his wife's death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Snake Queen's Wedding
Overview: A great duel erupts between Tejo Arum, Nyi Blorong's lover, and King Dewacengkar, as rivals seek her affection. When Tejo Arum is defeated, Nyi Blorong aids him by transforming him into a giant powerful enough to crush his enemies. To regain his human form, Tejo Arum is forced to meditate for 350 years.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1983-11-12
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Black Magic Wizard
Overview: Snake lady Dewi kills a woman and steals her baby to be a companion for her own child. She returns to her form as a snake after she hands the babies to her shaman husband. When the babies, Sari and Maya, are adults, they are taught black magic and Sari is manipulated by her father to commit terror and murder in the village.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Curious Spirit (Delia)
Overview: Susan is often disturbed by a horrifying female ghost, which has weakened her body. Her parents and lover, Charles, who are skeptical at first, eventually look for a shaman who can heal her. Initially the shaman’s spell works but then the ghost switches her target to the sister of Charles, Yuni, and results in her hanging herself. At this moment, Charles is reminded of his ex-girlfriend, Delia, who died by hanging herself out of her desperation because Charles got her pregnant and refused to take responsibility. Later, Delia possesses Susan and scary things start to happen. Veins and faces are slashed, windows and glasses are broken and shattered to pieces. Charles then calls his Koran-reading teacher and he battles the ghost with the sacred passages from the Koran.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters
Overview: Spoof based (loosely) on an old Indonesian film, which has had the old foreign soundtrack removed and replaced by an over-dubbed English track. Central character is a female wrestler who has decided that she no longer wants to wrestle, but whose mother (a former wrestler herself) wants her to keep wrestling to make money so her brother can have the operation (his seminal vessels run to his skull, rather than his groin, which purportedly will cause his head to explode if he gets too excited). During the course of her story (in which a number of brawls ensue), she is befriended by a Elvis-impersonating martial artist. This recut/redubbed version is 72 minutes long.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, Part 2
Overview: This is the story of women. Women shattered by violence. Women left alone, the sole survivors of slaughtered families. Women sold into a vicious and brutal international crime syndicate. Women subjected to poverty, horror and brutal sex. Experience a secret glimpse into the erotic realm of the Asian underworld, where women are a high-priced commodity and anything is available… for a price. Pushed to the farthest limits of sanity and battered beyond ordinary human capacity, there is one woman who decides to fight against her destiny. She’s tougher than a rabid canine! Her task is to terminate the misery and sexual torture of her soul-sisters in slavery. She and her fighting female friends are out to topple the power pyramids of the Asian underworld! Fighting ferociously with fists and feet flying, these females are out for revenge!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Fighters
Overview: Renny Basuki is a young woman and a former judo champion who, after her father's demise, tries to look after her impoverished family. When her younger brother is diagnosed with a deadly disease, she is desperate to afford his surgery costs. One day, Indra, a professional wrestling manager, offers Renny and her friend Mia to join a female wrestling troupe. They agree but Renny's mother disapproves her wrestling career.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1982-04-20
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Bed for Day, Bed for Night
Overview: Karno and Dina, grow up in a large fisherman village, and have carried on an affair till she is pregnant. Embarrassed, they leave for the city. Karno works as a truck driver and Dina becomes a tailor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1976-04-26
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Nine Flirtatious Widows
Overview: Murni (Susanna Caecilia) divorces her husband and travels to Jakarta, where she moves in with eight widows with modeling aspirations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Sundel Bolong
Overview: A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1981-08-02
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Mystery in Hong Kong
Overview: In order the get her greedy hands on some money, an evil stepmother uses black magic to destroy her stepson's relationship.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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To Burn The Sun
Overview: There is a robbery in a village far from the city, and the robbers not only steal, they also kill. Yanti is raped and is taken to Jakarta. Both her parents and her younger sibling are murdered by the robbers. Rachman, who really loves Yanti, finds her in a night club. Although she has become a prostitute, Rachman still loves her. They escape the brothel and marry in the village. Yanti receives martial arts lesson from Rachman’s grandfather and decides to take revenge on the robbers and the pimp who trapped her in prostitution. With numerous tactics and great fights, Yanti and Rachman manage to defeat the criminals and the pimp.
Genres: Action
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1981-12-10
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Salah Asuhan
Overview: The story revolves around the Minangkabau Hanafi and his friend, the half-French half-Minangkabau Corrie du Bussée. Although Hanafi is Minangkabau and a Muslim, he considers European culture to be superior and has many European friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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The Brutal Lust
Overview: The evil Sahlan is on the lam after committing a bloody robbery. He decides to both terrorize his actress wife and blackmail a film producer she's working for.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Defect in the Womb
Overview: Andy lives recklessly. He decides to go straight after meeting, falling in love with and impregnating Maria. Unfortunately, his freewheeling ways have led to him transmitting an STD to her that causes their baby to die. The two then go through therapy to learn more about sex education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Snake Queen
Overview: A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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Ali Topan Anak Jalanan
Overview: Ali Topan disturbs Anna Karenina when she passes by with her mother. Ali Topan’s group are street kids who do not get love nor attention from their parents. However, Ali Topan is also the smartest in his class so they are not delinquent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1977-05-16
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Sabar Dulu Dong...!
Overview: The Warkop DKI team - Dono, Kasino, Indro – returns with two female friends, Winny and Anita, to manage an ugly old hotel, and transform it into a proper hotel. The managing of the hotel becomes fodder for the comedy: a female guest who turns out to be the younger sibling of the room renter; Dono who really likes rats; a dead person in the hotel; a sleepwalking guest, etc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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Kisah Cinderella
Overview: The film tells the Cinderella, or Putri Abu (Indonesian equivalent) story that was made popular by a Walt Disney cartoon. It is about a girl who has to live with her cruel stepmother and stepsisters. A prince finally marries her thanks to a glass shoe that she accidentally leaves during a party.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1978-09-18
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Ira Maya Putri Cinderella
Overview: Princess Cinderella gives birth to a baby girl. The king, the baby’s father, gives her the name, Ira Maya. The neighboring King, who plans to betroth the baby with his son, attends the big party for the baby’s birth. The celebration is ruined with the appearance of the Wicked Witch who curses that Ira Maya will die if a needle pricks her. This is actually the plot of the Stepmother who wants to ruin Princess Cinderella’s happiness. To avoid this evil plan, Ira Maya is raised in the forest by the four good fairies. They keep moving and Ira Maya even changes her name to Mawar because the Wicked Witch is hunting her. When Mawar is an adult, she plays by the waterfall and meets a hunter. The good fairies explain to him who Mawar actually is. When she is approaching 17, Ira Maya and the four good fairies return to the palace. But the Step Mother and the Wicked Witch still want to see her suffer and even hunt the Hunter, who is actually the son of the neighboring King.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Takdir
Overview: The presence of her mother-in-law (Wolly Sutinah), ends the peace of Martini (Rima Melati), a former prostitute. She is terrorized continuously, until she finally runs away from home and tries to commit suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1973-05-12
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Benyamin Si Abunawas
Overview: A comedy film about two twins who were separated since childhood. Napi and Pinarto. Funny and silly incidents occur because of many misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Timang-timang Anakku Sayang
Overview: Tells the story of a family that experiences chaos after the father dies. Sofia's stepson drives out his stepmother and two siblings. Finally he dies in an accident. When her mother dies, Sofia is adopted by her rich neighbor, while Erwin is who knows where. When he is slandered by his stepsister, he intends to run away but is then helped by a young man who is none other than Erwin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Kugapai Cintamu
Overview: Tells the story of two women with different characters who love the same man. Widuri, does not dare to express her love while Irawati is more aggressive. One time Widuri was raped by Irawati's men until she was pregnant. Then she moved to the village. While Toby was threatened to marry Irawati because Irawati was pregnant due to her promiscuity and because she lent Irawati's father's company money to her friend but could not return it. Toby avoided it by following Widuri to the village and intended to marry her, but Widuri refused. Toby finally had an accident and Irawati died while giving birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1977-04-26
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