Raúl Ruiz Movies

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

A chronicle of Raúl Ruiz’s production of Michèle Reverdy’s opera “Médée”.

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

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

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero...

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of...

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.