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name: "Gabriel Ripstein"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gabriel-ripstein"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T18:49:06.045525+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gabriel Ripstein

Director. Born 1 January 1972 in Mexico City.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Mexico City
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Ripstein, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22443163, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2239581/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223306

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Narcos*](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) (76)

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## Biography

Gabriel Ripstein is a Mexican film producer, director, editor and screenwriter. Born in 1972 in Mexico City, he is the son of director Arturo Ripstein and grandson of producer Alfredo Ripstein. He studied economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and holds an MBA in media management from Columbia Business School.

Ripstein began producing feature films in 1999, working on titles including *El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba* (1999) and *Chronic* (2015), two of which competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. He made his directorial debut with *600 Millas* (2015), which he also wrote and produced; the film won the Best First Feature award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

His television directing credits include episodes of *Narcos* (2017). He has since directed, written and produced series such as *An Unknown Enemy* (2018–2022) and *Mentiras, The Series* (2025), and directed *Mexico 86* (2026).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Narcos* (2015), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mexico 86* (2026), Director, Writer
- *Mentiras, The Series* (2025), series, Director, Writer, Creator
- *La Máquina* (2024), series, Director
- *Midnight Family* (2024), series, Director
- *My Best Friend's Wedding* (2019), Screenplay
- *An Unknown Enemy* (2018), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *April's Daughters* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Compadres* (2016), Screenplay, Writer
- *Find a Boyfriend for My Wife... PLEASE!* (2016), Writer
- *600 Miles* (2015), Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
- *Chronic* (2015), Producer
- *From Afar* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Narcos* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)
- *Pulling Strings* (2013), Screenplay
- *The Ruination of Men* (2000), Producer

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