Raúl Ruiz Movies

Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has...

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....

Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat...

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...

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

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...

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

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an...

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

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

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

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

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

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

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

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

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

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

Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Where she went, he followed. Huppert is an around-the-clock actress so she doesn't...