Raúl Ruiz Movies

  • 1992
    Amelia Lópes O'Neill

    Amelia Lópes O'Neill

    Amelia Lópes O'Neill

    4.51992HD

    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.

    Amelia Lópes O'Neill
  • 1968
    Three Sad Tigers

    Three Sad Tigers

    Three Sad Tigers

    6.51968HD

    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...

    Three Sad Tigers
  • 2001
    Savage Souls

    Savage Souls

    Savage Souls

    4.52001HD

    At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20...

    Savage Souls
  • 1971
    Nobody Said Anything

    Nobody Said Anything

    Nobody Said Anything

    5.71971HD

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

    Nobody Said Anything
  • 1991
    The Golden Boat

    The Golden Boat

    The Golden Boat

    6.11991HD

    Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling...

    The Golden Boat
  • 1972
    What Is to Be Done?

    What Is to Be Done?

    What Is to Be Done?

    5.71972HD

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

    What Is to Be Done?
  • 1983
    The Return of a Library Lover

    The Return of a Library Lover

    The Return of a Library Lover

    01983HD

    Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is...

    The Return of a Library Lover
  • 1984
    The Real Presence

    The Real Presence

    The Real Presence

    01984HD

    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...

    The Real Presence
  • 1985
    The Insomniac on the Bridge

    The Insomniac on the Bridge

    The Insomniac on the Bridge

    61985HD

    This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is...

    The Insomniac on the Bridge
  • 1989
    Earthen Man

    Earthen Man

    Earthen Man

    01989HD

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

    Earthen Man
  • 1986
    Richard III

    Richard III

    Richard III

    01986HD

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

    Richard III
  • 1992
    The Solitudes

    The Solitudes

    The Solitudes

    5.51992HD

    "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...

    The Solitudes
  • 1978
    Dora et la lanterne magique

    Dora et la lanterne magique

    Dora et la lanterne magique

    5.61978HD

    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...

    Dora et la lanterne magique
  • 1987
    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

    The Blind Owl

    7.31987HD

    H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is...

    The Blind Owl
  • 1987
    Life Is a Dream

    Life Is a Dream

    Life Is a Dream

    7.31987HD

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

    Life Is a Dream
  • 1989
    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    Derrière le Mur

    01989HD

    Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

    Derrière le Mur
  • 1989
    L'Autel de l'amitié

    L'Autel de l'amitié

    L'Autel de l'amitié

    01989HD

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

    L'Autel de l'amitié
  • 2007
    The Gift

    The Gift

    The Gift

    02007HD

    A blind moviegoer tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village fifty years ago.

    The Gift
  • 1963
    The Suitcase

    The Suitcase

    The Suitcase

    4.41963HD

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

    The Suitcase
  • 1975
    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

    La Femme au foyer

    81975HD

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

    La Femme au foyer