Richard Ciupka

Richard Ciupka

Richard Ciupka is a Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is perhaps best known for his work on the 1983 horror film Curtains, as well as his collaborations with Louis Malle on the 1980 film Atlantic City, Alexandre Arcady on the 1985 film Hold-Up and Claude Chabrol on three feature films in France. Ciupka also filmed or directed over 520 television commercials in Canada and the United States. His work on the Canadian drama series Nouvelle adresse garnered him a Gémeaux award for "Best Cinematography (Dramatic)." Born in Liège, Belgium, Ciupka immigrated to the United States at age six. His first work as a cinematographer was on the Canadian film The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck (1975) followed by Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977) and the television film An American Christmas Carol (1979). He made his directorial debut with the horror film Curtains (1983); however, Ciupka left the production midway through over creative differences with producer Peter R. Simpson and is credited as Jonathan Stryker. Since 2013, Richard has worked as a cinematographer on TV series and feature films. Richard also produced and Directed/Photograohed over 520 TV commercials in Canada and the USA. Source: Article "Richard Ciupka" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Richard Ciupka
  • Popularity: 7.2
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1950-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
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  • Also Known As: Jonathan Stryker
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Richard Ciupka Movies

  • 2014
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    The Ultimate Nightmare: The Making of Curtains

    The Ultimate Nightmare: The Making of Curtains

    1 2014 HD

    A documentary on the making of Curtains

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  • 1984
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    The Blood of Others

    The Blood of Others

    5 1984 HD

    In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator...

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  • 1985
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    Secret Weapons

    Secret Weapons

    7 1985 HD

    Soviet High School girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.

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  • 1980
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    It Rained All Night the Day I Left

    It Rained All Night the Day I Left

    4.8 1980 HD

    A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her...

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  • 1978
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    Blood Relatives

    Blood Relatives

    5.7 1978 HD

    A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

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  • 2002
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    The Mysterious Miss C.

    The Mysterious Miss C.

    6.2 2002 HD

    An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves.

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  • 1983
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    Curtains

    Curtains

    5.333 1983 HD

    Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

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  • 2004
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    L’incomparable Mademoiselle C.

    L’incomparable Mademoiselle C.

    5.7 2004 HD

    In this sequel to the popular adventures of Mademoiselle C, the strange Mademoiselle Charlotte began a new life as a postwoman in Saint-Gérard...

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  • 1975
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    The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck

    The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck

    1 1975 HD

    A young orphan overhears a plot by thieves to smuggle diamonds out of Canada in the equipment of his favorite hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens.

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  • 1992
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    Coyote

    Coyote

    3.3 1992 HD

    Story of a wild first love that takes place at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River between the refineries at Pointe-Au-Trembles and the rock culture...

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  • 1999
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    The Last Breath

    The Last Breath

    5 1999 HD

    A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.

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  • 1985
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    Hold-up

    Hold-up

    6.186 1985 HD

    Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the...

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  • 2006
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    Duo

    Duo

    5.5 2006 HD

    A romantic comedy about Pascale, an agent for musicians, who is betrayed by Lewis Carl, her fiance and most important client.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

    1 1991 HD

    Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

    1 1991 HD

    An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

    Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad

    1 1991 HD

    An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

    Heritage Minutes: Valour Road

    1 1991 HD

    Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante

    1 1991 HD

    Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Superman

    Heritage Minutes: Superman

    1 1991 HD

    Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout

    Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout

    1 1991 HD

    The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government

    Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government

    1 1991 HD

    Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Soddie

    Heritage Minutes: Soddie

    1 1991 HD

    Prairie settlers build a house of sod.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung

    Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung

    1 1991 HD

    Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier

    Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier

    1 1991 HD

    The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Orphans

    Heritage Minutes: Orphans

    1 1991 HD

    French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers

    Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers

    1 1991 HD

    Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield

    Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield

    1 1991 HD

    A Montreal neurosurgeon makes ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders.

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  • 1992
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    Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine

    Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine

    1 1992 HD

    Lawyer and politician Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine build inter-lingual cooperation.

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  • 1980
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    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

    6.8 1980 HD

    In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs...

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  • 2017
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    Love Locks

    Love Locks

    5.9 2017 HD

    Lindsey Wilson first found love in the romantic city of Paris when she was a university student studying art there. Now, twenty years later, she is...

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  • 2017
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    Love Locks

    Love Locks

    5.9 2017 HD

    Lindsey Wilson first found love in the romantic city of Paris when she was a university student studying art there. Now, twenty years later, she is...

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  • 1977
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    Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

    Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

    4.698 1977 HD

    Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.

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  • 1972
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    The Cage

    The Cage

    1 1972 HD

    While waiting in vain for a call from a producer, a young screenwriter sinks into a sort of paranoid delirium. Undoubtedly one of the most striking...

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  • 1981
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    Dirty Tricks

    Dirty Tricks

    1 1981 HD

    A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler)...

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  • 1983
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    The Terry Fox Story

    The Terry Fox Story

    6.133 1983 HD

    The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.

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  • 1979
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    An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol

    6.2 1979 HD

    In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is...

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  • 1984
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    Heartsounds

    Heartsounds

    8 1984 HD

    New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which...

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  • 1984
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    The Guardian

    The Guardian

    4.25 1984 HD

    The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to...

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  • 1982
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    Melanie

    Melanie

    6.8 1982 HD

    A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother....

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  • 1981
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    Yesterday

    Yesterday

    1 1981 HD

    A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the...

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  • 1991
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    Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion

    Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion

    1 1991 HD

    Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.

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  • 2000
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    Task Force: Caviar

    Task Force: Caviar

    2 2000 HD

    Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.

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  • 1983
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    Joy

    Joy

    5.2 1983 HD

    This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around...

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  • 1970
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    5.6 1970 HD

    The Hunger is a British/Canadian television horror anthology series, co-produced by Scott Free Productions, Telescene Film Group Productions and the...

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