Raúl Ruiz Movies

A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.

When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually...

The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.

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

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

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...

Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now? Remind Me” is the notebook of a year of clinical...

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.

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

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

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

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

Eleven-year old Dora (Nathalie Manet) is forced to chase after clues concerning her inventor-father's death while being chased by thugs working for...

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

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't...

A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.

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