Thomas Del Ruth

Nascimento : 1942-05-01, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Filmes

It Takes All Kinds: The Making of Motel Hell
Thanks
Retrospective documentary on the making of the early 80's horror cult classic "Motel Hell."
O Primeiro Amor
Director of Photography
Juli e Bryce se conheceram aos sete anos de idade. Ela sempre admirou o menino, mas ele achava a vizinha meio estranha. Aos 13 tudo muda e ele começa a se apaixonar pela menina. Juntos, eles compartilharam diversas experiências amorosas, como o famoso primeiro beijo, que faz parte da vida de todo adolescente.
Bareback London
Tel Thomas
London is a town with many wonders and here we uncover the Bareback side. Hard non stop uninhibited bareback sex between some of the hottest British twinks to be found today. These guys will make you want to visit London again and again.
Kissing a Fool
Director of Photography
An egotistical television personality enlists the assistance of his best friend in putting the fidelity of his fiancé to the test in this amiable comedy of the sexes. Told in flashback, the film takes a familiar love-triangle scenario and gives it a bitter twist. With a bride who seems too good for either suitor, the film is sustained by one question - who will she choose?
Foi sem Querer
Director of Photography
Beaver, filho de uma típica família de classe média de Ohio, finge se juntar à equipe de futebol da escola para ganhar uma bicicleta, condição imposta pelo pai. Mas ele logo se mete em encrenca quando a magrela é roubada pelo valentão da turma.
Asteroid
Director of Photography
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
Full Circle
Director of Photography
A young woman, traumatized by rape at an early age, slowly learns to trust and love again as she struggles to avoid repeating her mother's mistakes.
Chasing the Dragon
Director of Photography
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
Abandoned and Deceived
Cinematography
The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing the courts of justice and the bureaucracy of the state.
One Christmas
Director of Photography
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Next Door
Director of Photography
Matt and Karen have inconsiderate neighbours whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud errupts and a series of tit-for-tat actions develop and escalate.
Shattered Image
Director of Photography
An FBI agent investigating the kidnap then apparent murder of a wealthy businessman, has his suspicions. The authorities believe Ben to be dead, but the body could not be identified. Ben's wife is the prime suspect with her accomplice, the victim's brother. Brian has to go undercover(s) to get to the truth.
Amore!
Director of Photography
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes off to pursue his dream, in Hollywood to be a movie star. Only becoming a movie star isn't as easy as he thought. Nobody wants an overweight, 50 year old, New Yorker who looks like a lawyer. He's going to have to make a few adjustments.
A Próxima Vítima
Director of Photography
O sargento Mike Donato (Charles Bronson) da policia de Los Angeles, é um policial veterano e durão que trabalha com a linda tenente Dena Donato (Dana Delany), sua filha e policial bem conceituada. Apesar das constantes discussões entre os dois policiais, eles se unem para caçar um perigoso serial killer, responsável pelo assassinato de freiras e que está deixando um rastro de sangue pelas ruas da cidade. Para desvendar os crimes e capturar o assassino, primeiro eles precisam resolver seus problemas pessoais, mas o tempo está acabando e o serial killer se torna cada vez mais audacioso. Seu novo alvo agora é a própria Dena que precisa ser protegida por seu pai e a força policial antes que seu sangue seja derramado pelo terrível assassino.
T Bone e Weasel - Uma Dupla Atrapalhada
Director of Photography
A couple of con men look for paradise in a stolen car.
Nós Somos os Campeões
Director of Photography
Depois de ser preso por dirigir alcoolizado, o advogado Gordon Bombay é condenado a 500 horas de serviço comunitário e tem que treinar uma equipe de hóquei infantil. Primeiramente, o coração de Gordon não está em seu trabalho, mas logo ele descobre que está recuperando seu espírito competitivo e empurrando os Ducks para se tornar uma equipe a ser reconhecida.
Little Sister
Director of Photography
Bobby is a college freshman and as part of a fraternity prank, he poses as Roberta and becomes pledged into a sorority. There he falls madly in love with Diana. As the game escalates, Bobby finds it increasingly hard to keep his twin identities separate...
Kuffs: Um Tira Por Acaso
Director of Photography
Herdeiro de um negócio policial usa seus novos recursos para encontrar o assassino de seu irmão.
Olha Quem Está Falando Também
Director of Photography
O pequeno Mikey consegue unir sua mãe ao taxista James Ubriacco e surpreende-se com o resultado: a chegada da irmãzinha, Julie. Os dois pequenos tagarelas enfrentarão diversos dilemas infantis e a tensão da rivalidade.
Olha Quem Está Falando
Director of Photography
Abandonada pelo parceiro, Mollie entra em trabalho de parto e é ajudada pelo taxista James. Ele se apaixona por ela e pelo bebê, Mikey, mas Mollie continua procurando o homem perfeito. Mikey faz comentários sarcásticos que a audiência ouve.
Satisfaction
Director of Photography
When a young rock group called The Mystery gets its first gig at a club, it's an opportunity to see what life is all about! Fresh out of high school, the rockers are hired by an exclusive beach resort thanks to a faded '60s songwriter. There, they meet with romance and adventure. But street-smart lead singer Jennie Lee faces a dilemma: pursue her budding career or finish high school.
Juro Por Deus
Director of Photography
A man and a woman go out on a "big" third date. He's ashamed to admit he just lost his job, and she's afraid he'll run away if he finds out that she has a kid. Small lies lead to bigger ones and the night gets crazy very soon.
O Gladiador
Director of Photography
Século 21. Os EUA estão sob cruel regime totalitário. Os livros foram queimados, os discos destruídos, as escolas fechadas e toda liberdade pessoal abolida. Neste submundo estarrecedor, só uma relíquia do Século 20 foi preservada: A TV. Única forma de diversão de uma população oprimida e fria. The Running Man é o programa mais popular, uma espécie de jogo de gato e rato mortal e sanguinário, onde o único valioso prêmio é a sobrevivência. Ben Richards, um rebelde perseguido, vai provar que nem sempre o fugitivo é o perdedor. Contra adversários mortalmente curiosos, ele vai defender sua vida frente às câmeras de TV.
Who Is Julia?
Cinematography
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, doctors merely transplant her brain into plain Jane. Problems ensue when plain Janes husband continues to believe she is still his wife. She has no memory of him, and goes to live with the beautiful womans husband. She doesn't mix well with her new socialite friends and family. Mirrors are emotional battlefields as well.
Conta Comigo
Director of Photography
Em uma pequena cidade do Oregon, quatro amigos - o sensível Gordie, o durão Chris, o destemido Teddy e o acovardado Vern - resolvem sair à procura do cadáver de um adolescente desaparecido, que foi atropelado por um trem. O objetivo dos garotos é o de ser vistos como heróis diante dos amigos e dos moradores da cidade. Assim, eles partem numa inesquecível viagem de dois dias que se transforma em uma odisseia de autodescoberta e que evolui para um evento marcante em suas vidas.
Quicksilver
Cinematography
Jack Casey used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis?
Code of Vengeance
Director of Photography
A Vietnam veteran who has become a drifter helps a young, single mother avenge her brother's murder and finds himself the target of a gang of dope smugglers on the Mexican border.
O Clube
Director of Photography
Em virtude de terem cometido pequenos delitos na escola, cinco adolescentes são castigados a passar o sábado na escola, onde devem escrever uma redação de mil palavras sobre o que eles pensam de si mesmos. Apesar de serem bem diferentes uns dos outros, enquanto o dia transcorre passam a aceitar-se uns aos outros e várias confissões são feitas entre eles.
Fandango
Director of Photography
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Impulse
Director of Photography
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...
Best Kept Secrets
Cinematography
Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit. Forrest is denied this position on the basis of information concerning his wife. The information, which reveals a dicey extramarital affair, was culled from a department surveillance file that was supposed to have been destroyed by court order. Blaise battles through legal channels to expose the police force's illegal actions, even as she and her husband suffer the innuendoes and cold shoulders from his fellow officers.
Get Crazy: Na Zorra do Rock
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O mega-promotor de eventos Colin Beverly planeia sabotar o concerto de Ano Novo de 1983 do pequeno promotor Max Wolfe. Os assistentes de Wolfe, Neil Allen e Willie Loman se apaixonam enquanto tentam conduzir o espetáculo apesar das interferências de Beverly.
Intimate Agony
Director of Photography
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.
Minha Vida Por Meus Filhos
Director of Photography
Who Will Love My Children? is a 1983 American made-for-television biographical film based on the life of Lucile Fray. Lucile Fray was diagnosed with cancer in 1952 and wanted to find suitable homes for her ten children, since she felt her husband could not properly care for them. Prior to her death, she succeeded. The film was directed by John Erman, written by Michael Bortman, and starred Ann-Margret in her first television film. It was originally broadcast on American Broadcasting Company. The same evening as its original broadcast, February 14, 1983, the children of Lucile Fray appeared on That's Incredible!, an ABC program.
Desejo de Matar 2
Director of Photography
Paul Kersey, que teve a esposa assassinada, sai de Nova York e leva uma vida normal, deixando de lado seu sentimento de vingança. Mas quando sua filha é estuprada e morta, Kersey volta a fazer justiça com as próprias mãos.
Help Wanted: Male
Director of Photography
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Elvis e a Rainha da Beleza
Director of Photography
Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
This House Possessed
Director of Photography
A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse, that the house is alive and determined to keep her prisoner.
Manobristas da Pesada
Director of Photography
The escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
Mark, I Love You
Director of Photography
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
Motel Diabólico
Director of Photography
"Meat is meat, and man's gotta eat!" That was always granny's philosophy. And that's the way folks still think over at the Motel Hello where Farmer Vincent mixes up his special blend of smoke meats. Heck, everybody in the county just loves Farmer Vincent's sausages and hams -- there's nothin' quite like 'em. But pray tell, what's that we've heard about strangers just disappearing after passing by Vincent's motel? And what are those odd things planted in Vincent's "secret garden" that he tends to only at night?
Modelos Para Matar
Director of Photography
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
Homem e Mulher Até Certo Ponto
Assistant Camera
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Tempo Para Amar, Tempo Para Esquecer
Assistant Camera
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday life. She feels cheated by an older generation that taught her to settle for nothing less than storybook finales, people who are disillusioned and restless and don't know why, people for whom life holds no easy answers.
Justine
Assistant Camera
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
Rebeldia Indomável
First Assistant Camera
Prisioneiro durão enfrenta a todos da prisão e se recusa a ser quebrado, escapando e sendo preso novamente mais de duas vezes.
Divorce American Style
Assistant Camera
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.