Jorge Arriagada Movies

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from...

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...

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an...

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

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

Julian Nakaura, a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1582, as proof that Japan had...

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

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.

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

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...

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and...

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 charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time...

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter..

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

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

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...