Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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....

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

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

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

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted...

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the...

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

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

Raul Ruiz relates how he got out of Chile after Pinochet’s coup d’état and how he began making movies in Europe.

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

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

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

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...