Raúl Ruiz Movies

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...

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

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...

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

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

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 drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling...

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

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...

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...

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...

Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Where she went, he followed. Huppert is an around-the-clock actress so she doesn't...

Raul Ruiz relates how he got out of Chile after Pinochet’s coup d’état and how he began making movies in Europe.

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

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

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The...

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at...

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