Raúl Ruiz Movies

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased...

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...

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

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...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

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...

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility,...

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

The film was made from the show Edipo Iperboreo (1989), directed by Ruiz. The shooting took place in Buti (Villa Medicea, Castello di Buti and the...

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

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...

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

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

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

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

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.

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...

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