Ratno Timoer

Directing

Ratno Timoer

Born 1942-03-08 · Soerabaja, Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies [now Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia]

Acting credits

No artwork available
NR

Lana and Joko are childhood friends. Joko has moved away from his family and chooses to live on his own, even in poverty. Lana, on the other hand, is tired of living with her rich family. They both fall in love with each other. Joko tries to write songs and succeeds. He becomes a rich man but also very superficial. The thing that drove Lana away from her family has now become a part of her own life.

A Pair of Doves

1979

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

Sangkuriang poster
4.0

After swearing an oath to marry the one who picks up her weaving stick, Dayang Sumba embarks on an unexpected romance with a royal staff member.

Sangkuriang

1982

Fighting the Storm poster
NR

After the accidental drowning death of their son, a military truck driver begins to doubt the faithfulness of his wife.

Fighting the Storm

1974

Galunggung Genie poster
NR

After Bayukusuma is falsely accused of committing adultery, his village is hit by a series of natural disasters. Bayukusuma is blamed and throw over a cliff. He survives and then they bury him in the sand. After awhile, he has no other option than to become the disciple of the evil Galunggung Genie. He's promptly possessed by the genie, who then goes to the village and gets revenge.

Galunggung Genie

1982

No artwork available
NR

Rainang tries to terrorize a corrupt village leader, Ciming, so that he would resign. But Marsan accidentally kills Ciming. As team leader, Rainang is willing to take responsibility (punishment by exile) while Marsan is appointed as the new village leader and Rausin (Rainang’s son) is sent to the Islamic boarding school. When Rausin returns to Kemayoran, the village leader, Marsan, is now a corrupt man. The Dutch reprimand him as the villagers no longer want to sell rice to them. The village leader then assigns Beureum, an assassin, to get rid of Rausin. But Toha and Cicih, the female warrior, support him. Rainang, who is thought to have passed away, appears and intervenes, and in the end, kills Marsan.

The Tiger of Kemayoran

1965

Assoy poster
NR

Hetty searches for her father, Syachrin Mulyadi, who left a long time ago to find fortune. She takes with her a necklace that was given by Syachrin to her late mother. Syachrin has become a producer and is making a film titled “Assoy”. During a birthday party of Mrs. Lies, Hetty sings a song that was composed specially by Syachrin for his wife, and this helps them to meet. The film uses songs, top singers, and a touching story, to repeat the successful formula that started with the film Terang Boelan. The singers Elvy Sukaesih, Lies Saodah, and Mansjur are popular Dangdut singers of the time, while Hetty Koes Endang was a rising pop singer. The appearance of the comedy Surya Group was designed as an added attraction, though it becomes more of a distraction.

Assoy

1977

Blind Virgin poster
NR

Oni is an orphan who is born blind. She is adopted by a cart puller. Despite of his blindness, Oni can cure diseases. So when her adopting parent dies, someone else takes care of her. But ever since her village is pillaged Oni lives on as a wanderer.

Blind Virgin

1971

The Haunted House poster
3.0

Gunawan moves his troubled family (including an adulterous wife) into a new Dutch home that comes complete with a hidden treasure and ghosts.

The Haunted House

1981

No artwork available
NR

Sari plans to give her virginity to her fiancé, Wisnu. The plan is destroyed when Denny and friends rape her. Then they beat Wisnu until he becomes paralysed. Sari plots her revenge. She tortures the rapists one by one until she meets the leader, Denny. Denny has a poor family background and a widow, Thelma, supports him financially. He is finally found in a club where Sari works as a singer. One day Sari receives an invitation from Thelma. Denny is planning to repeat what he did to Sari. Sari manages to resist and takes her revenge. At the same time Wisnu appears and kills Denny. Then Thelma, kills Wisnu. Sari and Thelma end up in court.

Poisonous Kiss

1976

Blazing Battle poster
9.0

Indonesian war movie set during the Japanese occupation of WWII.

Blazing Battle

1983

Cinta poster
NR

Sarah is a lounge singer who works to support her husband, Paul Lasut, a gambler. In an intersection, her car nearly runs into the car of David Panggabean, the director of a bank. The event leads to them falling in love. Lasut is shot and dies on the gambling table. Sarah thinks that Lasut dies because of the money that David gave him. Sarah avoids David, who still persistently visits her place of work. David also has problems with his work, due to his assistant. All the problems are finally resolved when David and Sarah are married.

Cinta

1975

The Hunchback poster
NR

A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.

The Hunchback

1972

No artwork available
NR

Samboja, a thug who controls an area, catches Ceking and his friends who are trying to rape two girls, Dyah Setiowati and Marlina. Samboja tries to help and is stabbed. Samboja is thought to be the rapist and is arrested. One of the victims, Dyah Setiowati, defends him to the police and he is released. But this incident makes him an enemy of the drug syndicate, who the rapist Ceking works for. Although his friend, Leo, who also works for the syndicate, defends him, the drug boss orders his men to kill Samboja. Dyah, the daughter of a cultural attaché, sympathises with him, especially when she finds out that he visits the daughter of Astri, the prostitute, in the orphanage.

Preman

1985

No artwork available
NR

Medical student Rendra return to his hometown to take care of his father’s inheritance and discovers that the villagers are disturbed by wandering ghosts. The police investigate and uncover that the ghosts are humans in disguise... except for one “kuntilanak” (a traditional female ghost), a vengeful spirit who had been burned to death in an empty house.

Female Ghost

1974

The Longest Dark poster
8.0

Supinah, a prostitute, is picked up by a kindly rich man, Budi. They fall in love and she recounts how she, as a naive willage woman, was lured into prostitution when she came to Jakarta in search of her husband, who in turns out remarried. Budi wants her to quit her job but her vicious pimp has other ideas.

The Longest Dark

1970

Mystery in Borobudur poster
NR

Barda the Blind (Ratno Timoer) while at Borobudur, is accused of being the murderer of Bimo Adirekso (Wahid Chan). The children who were killed, Subala (Adang Mansyur) and Subali (Adji Agus), did not care about people's accusations. They fight over their parents' inheritance until a big fight breaks out, which is useless, because the will and the treasure map are in the hands of Sekarningsih (Nuke Maya Saphira), also Ben's daughter, and her boyfriend, Bambang Permadi (Rachmat Kartolo). Selendang Mayang (Rita Zahara) stole the treasure, then it was stolen by another person, all the way to Dieng. Here the battle takes place. This film is presented in a mystery style.

Mystery in Borobudur

1971

Janjiku Pada Dia poster
NR

Gazali who lives in Kinabalu, Sabah, has an only child, Rozy Syahzam, who has just finished medical school. His wife had passed away when she gave birth to Rozy. Gazali has no intention to remarry although Rozy has urged him to. He only wants to get married after Rozy finishes medical school in Indonesia. So Rozy leaves his hometown and his girlfriend Nirwana. Soon Rozy succeeds in becoming a surgeon while Nirwana is engaged to his father for financial reasons. After hearing this, Rozy is upset and refuses to return home. He keeps himself busy by helping people in the remote area. Finally he receives a wedding invitation and has no choice but to attend. On his way home, his car crashes into a tree. With blood covering his body, Rory arrives just in time when his father is about to utter the marriage vow. Gazali feels guilty when he finds out that his future bride is his son’s girlfriend. He cancels the wedding and is willing to let Rozy marry Nirwana.

Janjiku Pada Dia

1980

The Age of Turmoil poster
NR

With her marriage to the unfaithful Iskandar already in the toilet, Susy goes cougar and tries her luck with several younger men. Leading lady Suzzanna gets a brief reprieve from starring in nothing but horror flicks in this Private Lessons-inspired drama.

The Age of Turmoil

1986

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Valley of the Skeletons poster
NR

A warrior and his monkey companion put an end to the reign of a psychopathic and brutal despot after entering a village under his thumb.

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Valley of the Skeletons

1990

No artwork available
NR

At the Jakarta Fair, there is a rumour that a major tycoon from Makassar will come looking for new machines and a business partner. There is a flurry of excitement as everyone tries to get the tycoon’s employees to drop by their stands. Mansur, one of business owners in the fair, asks his secretary, Sinta, to find Andi Rachmat Syah, the tycoon. Sinta then approaches Andi, a handsome man employed by the tycoon, to find out about his boss. The man promises to tell Sinta on one condition, that she has to take him around the fair. Samiaji, Mansur’s business competitor, who has a crush on Sinta, is jealous when he finds out about it. Till the end of the story, nobody knows that Andi takes Sinta home after nights of going around the Jakarta Fair.

Honey, Money and Djakarta Fair

1970

Reo, the Werewolf poster
NR

Reo (Taka Zahara) is a human raised by a wolf who is trained by Barda (Ratno Timoer), the Blind from the Ghost Cave. He lost his father, mother and younger siblings, who were held captive by an evil character who was also greedy in a place called the Green Hell. The journey to find his parents and younger sibling had to go through many obstacles and naturally also fights.

Reo, the Werewolf

1977

Goyang Sampai Tua poster
NR

An oplet (a small taxi) driver, Tarno, never feels that he earns enough in his village. So he decides to try his luck in the city and leaves his wife and child at home. His luck doesn’t change much until he starts working as a personal driver. But he then realises that he is working for the boss of a drug syndicate. As he refuses his boss’s order to sleep with Mira, he is locked up. Luckily his friend, who brought him into the syndicate, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Rose takes her child to look for him to Jakarta. She wanders aimlessly and leaves her child in an orphanage. Fortunately, she is found by a group of street musicians who stumble upon her when she is about to be raped. Rose joins the group because she has a singing ability. Then the leader of The Brims Band discovers her and she becomes an even more popular singer.

Goyang Sampai Tua

1978

No artwork available
NR

Dewi, who has many love problems with her boyfriends, falls into the arms of Dayan, her boss, who also has a problem after becoming a successful businessman. Being told by his doctor that he has only a few months left to live, he suddenly feels the emptiness at home. His wife, Anneke, has her own occupation. His two children are studying abroad, while the youngest rarely sleeps at home and eventually dies while playing Russian roulette. Dayan and Dewi find a mutual need to release the burden. The situation changes with the appearance of Ferico, an old school friend of Dewi, who continues to pursue her after his divorce. Both Dayan and Dewi finally return to their partners. Director Arifin chooses a “poetic” style of telling the story so that the storyline follows the internal conflicts of the characters. The poetry is also characterized by slick photography.

Let the Moon Be

1986

Behind the camera

The Devil's Sword poster
5.1

A legendary warrior embarks on a deadly quest to retrieve the cursed Devil’s Sword, a mystical weapon with dark powers capable of unleashing unimaginable destruction. When the sword falls into the wrong hands, chaos, and bloodshed follow. Now, it’s up to our hero to confront an army of evil warriors, deadly assassins, and supernatural creatures in a battle for the fate of the world.

The Devil's Sword

1984

No artwork available
NR

Badrun’s family often clashes with their maids, as his mother is too strict. One day, the family, and their maids, have to stay at an international hotel, where they receive special treatment. As a result, the maids are curious to know the secrets of the hotel maids. Various funny events occur, since the hotel maids are more educated, and Badrun finally realises his wrong attitude towards the maids.

Pelayan Gedongan

1983

Jungle Heat poster
NR

Two groups of treasure hunters encounter dangerous animals, bloody thirsty cannibals, and unexpected love as they search a jungle for a long lost treasure.

Jungle Heat

1988

Galunggung Genie poster
NR

After Bayukusuma is falsely accused of committing adultery, his village is hit by a series of natural disasters. Bayukusuma is blamed and throw over a cliff. He survives and then they bury him in the sand. After awhile, he has no other option than to become the disciple of the evil Galunggung Genie. He's promptly possessed by the genie, who then goes to the village and gets revenge.

Galunggung Genie

1982

Galunggung Genie poster
NR

After Bayukusuma is falsely accused of committing adultery, his village is hit by a series of natural disasters. Bayukusuma is blamed and throw over a cliff. He survives and then they bury him in the sand. After awhile, he has no other option than to become the disciple of the evil Galunggung Genie. He's promptly possessed by the genie, who then goes to the village and gets revenge.

Galunggung Genie

1982

Assoy poster
NR

Hetty searches for her father, Syachrin Mulyadi, who left a long time ago to find fortune. She takes with her a necklace that was given by Syachrin to her late mother. Syachrin has become a producer and is making a film titled “Assoy”. During a birthday party of Mrs. Lies, Hetty sings a song that was composed specially by Syachrin for his wife, and this helps them to meet. The film uses songs, top singers, and a touching story, to repeat the successful formula that started with the film Terang Boelan. The singers Elvy Sukaesih, Lies Saodah, and Mansjur are popular Dangdut singers of the time, while Hetty Koes Endang was a rising pop singer. The appearance of the comedy Surya Group was designed as an added attraction, though it becomes more of a distraction.

Assoy

1977

Assoy poster
NR

Hetty searches for her father, Syachrin Mulyadi, who left a long time ago to find fortune. She takes with her a necklace that was given by Syachrin to her late mother. Syachrin has become a producer and is making a film titled “Assoy”. During a birthday party of Mrs. Lies, Hetty sings a song that was composed specially by Syachrin for his wife, and this helps them to meet. The film uses songs, top singers, and a touching story, to repeat the successful formula that started with the film Terang Boelan. The singers Elvy Sukaesih, Lies Saodah, and Mansjur are popular Dangdut singers of the time, while Hetty Koes Endang was a rising pop singer. The appearance of the comedy Surya Group was designed as an added attraction, though it becomes more of a distraction.

Assoy

1977

The Haunted House poster
3.0

Gunawan moves his troubled family (including an adulterous wife) into a new Dutch home that comes complete with a hidden treasure and ghosts.

The Haunted House

1981

No artwork available
NR

Sari plans to give her virginity to her fiancé, Wisnu. The plan is destroyed when Denny and friends rape her. Then they beat Wisnu until he becomes paralysed. Sari plots her revenge. She tortures the rapists one by one until she meets the leader, Denny. Denny has a poor family background and a widow, Thelma, supports him financially. He is finally found in a club where Sari works as a singer. One day Sari receives an invitation from Thelma. Denny is planning to repeat what he did to Sari. Sari manages to resist and takes her revenge. At the same time Wisnu appears and kills Denny. Then Thelma, kills Wisnu. Sari and Thelma end up in court.

Poisonous Kiss

1976

No artwork available
NR

Sari plans to give her virginity to her fiancé, Wisnu. The plan is destroyed when Denny and friends rape her. Then they beat Wisnu until he becomes paralysed. Sari plots her revenge. She tortures the rapists one by one until she meets the leader, Denny. Denny has a poor family background and a widow, Thelma, supports him financially. He is finally found in a club where Sari works as a singer. One day Sari receives an invitation from Thelma. Denny is planning to repeat what he did to Sari. Sari manages to resist and takes her revenge. At the same time Wisnu appears and kills Denny. Then Thelma, kills Wisnu. Sari and Thelma end up in court.

Poisonous Kiss

1976

No artwork available
NR

Medical student Rendra return to his hometown to take care of his father’s inheritance and discovers that the villagers are disturbed by wandering ghosts. The police investigate and uncover that the ghosts are humans in disguise... except for one “kuntilanak” (a traditional female ghost), a vengeful spirit who had been burned to death in an empty house.

Female Ghost

1974

Janjiku Pada Dia poster
NR

Gazali who lives in Kinabalu, Sabah, has an only child, Rozy Syahzam, who has just finished medical school. His wife had passed away when she gave birth to Rozy. Gazali has no intention to remarry although Rozy has urged him to. He only wants to get married after Rozy finishes medical school in Indonesia. So Rozy leaves his hometown and his girlfriend Nirwana. Soon Rozy succeeds in becoming a surgeon while Nirwana is engaged to his father for financial reasons. After hearing this, Rozy is upset and refuses to return home. He keeps himself busy by helping people in the remote area. Finally he receives a wedding invitation and has no choice but to attend. On his way home, his car crashes into a tree. With blood covering his body, Rory arrives just in time when his father is about to utter the marriage vow. Gazali feels guilty when he finds out that his future bride is his son’s girlfriend. He cancels the wedding and is willing to let Rozy marry Nirwana.

Janjiku Pada Dia

1980

Revenge of the Ninja poster
4.8

The stars of THE DEVIL SWORD return in another outrageous Indonesian adventure! An army of scumbags armed with machine guns and rocket launchers attack a magician who possesses a magic necklace. They mange to take it from him but later it proves that its not the real necklace. That's when all hell breaks loose... REVENGE OF NINJA hardly has any ninjas but is packed with non-stop trashy violence and delivers everything you can expect from an Indonesian action film: huge explosions, tortures, beatings, unbelievable fights and the usual atrocious dubbing.

Revenge of the Ninja

1984

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Valley of the Skeletons poster
NR

A warrior and his monkey companion put an end to the reign of a psychopathic and brutal despot after entering a village under his thumb.

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Valley of the Skeletons

1990

Reo, the Werewolf poster
NR

Reo (Taka Zahara) is a human raised by a wolf who is trained by Barda (Ratno Timoer), the Blind from the Ghost Cave. He lost his father, mother and younger siblings, who were held captive by an evil character who was also greedy in a place called the Green Hell. The journey to find his parents and younger sibling had to go through many obstacles and naturally also fights.

Reo, the Werewolf

1977

Goyang Sampai Tua poster
NR

An oplet (a small taxi) driver, Tarno, never feels that he earns enough in his village. So he decides to try his luck in the city and leaves his wife and child at home. His luck doesn’t change much until he starts working as a personal driver. But he then realises that he is working for the boss of a drug syndicate. As he refuses his boss’s order to sleep with Mira, he is locked up. Luckily his friend, who brought him into the syndicate, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Rose takes her child to look for him to Jakarta. She wanders aimlessly and leaves her child in an orphanage. Fortunately, she is found by a group of street musicians who stumble upon her when she is about to be raped. Rose joins the group because she has a singing ability. Then the leader of The Brims Band discovers her and she becomes an even more popular singer.

Goyang Sampai Tua

1978

Goyang Sampai Tua poster
NR

An oplet (a small taxi) driver, Tarno, never feels that he earns enough in his village. So he decides to try his luck in the city and leaves his wife and child at home. His luck doesn’t change much until he starts working as a personal driver. But he then realises that he is working for the boss of a drug syndicate. As he refuses his boss’s order to sleep with Mira, he is locked up. Luckily his friend, who brought him into the syndicate, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Rose takes her child to look for him to Jakarta. She wanders aimlessly and leaves her child in an orphanage. Fortunately, she is found by a group of street musicians who stumble upon her when she is about to be raped. Rose joins the group because she has a singing ability. Then the leader of The Brims Band discovers her and she becomes an even more popular singer.

Goyang Sampai Tua

1978

No artwork available
NR

Herman and Mira are young lovers who have premarital sex. Mira becoming pregnant but Herman's family disapproves. Herman's father, aunt and some others try to stop the impending marriage and end up accidentally killing Mira. The unjustly slain girl doesn't find peace in death and her spirit rises up for vengeance. One by one, she kills her murderers.

Satan's Revenge

1989

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Blind Warrior poster
6.0

A psychopathic and brutal Indonesian despot terrorizes and exploits the rural population. The cruel warlord demands sacrifices from the villagers, slaughtering them when they don’t meet his demands.

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Blind Warrior

1987

No artwork available
NR

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.

Antara Surga Dan Neraka

1976

No artwork available
NR

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.

Antara Surga Dan Neraka

1976

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Lost Paradise poster
NR

In a forest in Mount Bromo, Badra, the Blind Fighter, finds a woman on a stretcher, attacked by a group of villains. Badra quickly acts. Upon her death, the woman asks Badra to take care of the children. So he finds the father of the children. On the way, he is ambushed by his arch enemy and is hurt. The king helps him to recover, then he meets again with his arch enemy.

The Blind Man from Ghost Cave: Lost Paradise

1977

No artwork available
NR

Wisnu and Popo Hartopo are two motocross riders who are famous and respected. One day, Wisnu meets a sweet girl, Yanti and they fall in love. Margens, also loves Yanti, and he tries to ruin Wisnu’s career to win Yanti. During a practice, Margens and his friends start to make trouble and beat up the leader of Wisnu’s group, Hendrik. Margens then tries to rape Yanti and even causes harm to Wisnu during a race. Yanti stays faithful and waits for Wisnu’s recovery from his injuries. In the end, Margens and his friends have to pay for their evil deeds.

Sirkuit Cinta

1978

No artwork available
NR

Wisnu and Popo Hartopo are two motocross riders who are famous and respected. One day, Wisnu meets a sweet girl, Yanti and they fall in love. Margens, also loves Yanti, and he tries to ruin Wisnu’s career to win Yanti. During a practice, Margens and his friends start to make trouble and beat up the leader of Wisnu’s group, Hendrik. Margens then tries to rape Yanti and even causes harm to Wisnu during a race. Yanti stays faithful and waits for Wisnu’s recovery from his injuries. In the end, Margens and his friends have to pay for their evil deeds.

Sirkuit Cinta

1978