Raúl Ruiz Movies

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

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

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

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

A film festival jury, composed of film professionals, judges a film about a court in which three terrorists who allegedly kidnapped a judge to try...

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for...

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...

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

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.