Raúl Ruiz Movies

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

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

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...

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

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

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

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

A series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.

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

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they...

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...

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

A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.

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

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

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

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

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