Raúl Ruiz Movies

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 Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

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

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The...

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

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

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

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

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

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

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...

"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...

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...

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

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

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

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 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....

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

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