Raúl Ruiz Movies

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased...

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

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...

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

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

H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is...

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

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

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility,...

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....

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

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

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

A coin and a cup of coffee on a table top. Raúl Ruiz gets the most from this minimal set-up, both visually and through the laconic soundtrack.

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

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

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague...