Raúl Ruiz Movies
- 2001
Savage Souls
Savage Souls4.52001HD
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20...
- 2020
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror62020HD
A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After...
- 1992
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
Amelia Lópes O'Neill4.51992HD
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
- 1984
City of Pirates
City of Pirates7.21984HD
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...
- 1971
Now We're Going to Call You Brother
Now We're Going to Call You Brother6.21971HD
Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil...
- 2023
Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism02023HD
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...
- 2002
Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody6.32002HD
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at...
- 1991
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)
A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)5.51991HD
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...
- 2003
That Day
That Day5.52003HD
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the...
- 1987
Life Is a Dream
Life Is a Dream7.31987HD
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...
- 1986
Treasure Island
Treasure Island6.21986HD
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and...
- 1970
The Penal Colony
The Penal Colony51970HD
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...
- 1977
The Sorceror's Apprentice
The Sorceror's Apprentice61977HD
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...
- 1995
Fado, Major and Minor
Fado, Major and Minor5.31995HD
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...
- 1991
The Golden Boat
The Golden Boat6.11991HD
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...
- 1982
On Top of the Whale
On Top of the Whale71982HD
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...
- 2000
Comedy of Innocence
Comedy of Innocence6.12000HD
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat...
- 1993
Mirror of Tunisia/Tunisia, the Trance and the Stone
Mirror of Tunisia/Tunisia, the Trance and the Stone01993HD
Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the...
- 1978
The Suspended Vocation
The Suspended Vocation61978HD
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...
- 2009
Nucingen House
Nucingen House6.32009HD
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.