Ruth Pelupessy

Acting

Ruth Pelupessy

Born 1938-04-27 · Bangka Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

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.

Acting credits

Rahasia Perawan poster
NR

Agus moved out of his huge house because his father, Raden Mas Sudewo, intended to marry Rahayu after his wife's death.

Rahasia Perawan

1975

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

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.

Sundel Bolong

1981

Kisah Cinderella poster
NR

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.

Kisah Cinderella

1978

Salah Asuhan poster
NR

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.

Salah Asuhan

1972

Rosita poster
NR

Rosita is a girl from an disharmonious family who tries to find her identity. He falls in love with Bambang, but both of them come from families that are also messy. Rosita is involved in a covert prostitution office, which ruins her relationship with Bambang. When Bambang, who was again a delinquent, intended to commit suicide, Rosita rushed to wake him up. In her attempt, Rosita slipped, fell, and died.

Rosita

1977

Satan's Slave poster
6.0

A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.

Satan's Slave

1980

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

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.

The Snake Queen

1982

Takdir poster
NR

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.

Takdir

1973

The Fighters poster
NR

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.

The Fighters

1982

No artwork available
NR

Four teenage girls from high school classmates form a gang that emphasizes solidarity.

Puber

1978

The Brutal Lust poster
NR

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.

The Brutal Lust

1976

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters poster
5.1

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.

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters

1982

Benyamin Si Abunawas poster
NR

A comedy film about two twins who were separated since childhood. Napi and Pinarto. Funny and silly incidents occur because of many misunderstandings.

Benyamin Si Abunawas

1974

To Burn The Sun poster
8.0

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.

To Burn The Sun

1981

The Snake Queen's Wedding poster
5.0

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.

The Snake Queen's Wedding

1983

Timang-timang Anakku Sayang poster
NR

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.

Timang-timang Anakku Sayang

1973

Ira Maya Putri Cinderella poster
NR

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.

Ira Maya Putri Cinderella

1981

Mystery in Hong Kong poster
NR

In order the get her greedy hands on some money, an evil stepmother uses black magic to destroy her stepson's relationship.

Mystery in Hong Kong

1974

Black Magic Wizard poster
NR

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.

Black Magic Wizard

1981

Nine Flirtatious Widows poster
NR

Murni (Susanna Caecilia) divorces her husband and travels to Jakarta, where she moves in with eight widows with modeling aspirations.

Nine Flirtatious Widows

1977

Bed for Day, Bed for Night poster
NR

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.

Bed for Day, Bed for Night

1976

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, Part 2 poster
8.0

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!

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, Part 2

1982

Ali Topan Anak Jalanan poster
NR

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.

Ali Topan Anak Jalanan

1977

No artwork available
NR

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.

Curious Spirit (Delia)

1975