Ruth Maleczech
Know for: Acting
Born: 1939-01-08
Place of birth: East Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also know as:
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Anna (1987)
Czech refugee Krystyna travels to New York in search of her actress idol and fellow expatriate, Anna. After her own arrival in the Big Apple, Anna...
Strong Medicine (1981)
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday...
Dead End Kids (1986)
The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre group The Mabou Mines.
Far from Poland (1984)
FAR FROM POLAND is probably the first American non-fiction film (Godmilow calls it a "drama-tary") to explode cinema verite's mythic claim to be the...
Conversation (1981)
Multiple overlapping images combine with still-frames of an amorous Puerto Rican filmmaker's telephone conversation with a repairman, coincidentally...
Boomtown (1985)
The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic...
Volcano Saga (1989)
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman...
Statuary (1995)
With deadpan comedy and rich black and white imagery, STATUARY parallels the stories of a reclusive statuary yard keeper (played by the late great...
The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat...
XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint (1993)
A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the...
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night...
The Crucible (1996)
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Sleepers (1996)
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes...
C.H.U.D. (1984)
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a...
Mondo Plympton (1997)
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking",...
Angela (1996)
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of...
The Dutch Master (1993)
The Walter Mitty-esque tale of a Brooklyn dental hygienist who escapes into a painting by 17th-century Dutch master Peter de Hooc. The film was...
In the Soup (1992)
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Me and Veronica (1993)
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
The Mystery of Claywoman (2009)
A mock documentary exploring the purported existence of 'Claywoman', a 500 million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their...