Raúl Ruiz Movies

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for...

A film festival jury, composed of film professionals, judges a film about a court in which three terrorists who allegedly kidnapped a judge to try...

Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is...

Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose...

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone...

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is...

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

A man loses his senses one by one. First he loses the instinct to own property, then his balance - so he can no longer walk - then his sight, then...

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from...

A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than...

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

The most critically celebrated Rue essay of 1979 was the two-part Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France, directed by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Raul...