Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of...

"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 man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

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

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...

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

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone...

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...

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

In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from...

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...

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

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

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

In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

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