Raúl Ruiz Movies

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

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

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...

Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice,...

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later...

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment...

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

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...

This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the...

Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of...

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

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

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...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

"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 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....

The most critically celebrated Rue essay of 1979 was the two-part Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France, directed by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Raul...

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul...

Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.