Raúl Ruiz Movies

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It's based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a...

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.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

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

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

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun)...

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...

The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's...

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

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

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if...

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

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

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

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