Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

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...

On Raúl Ruiz's missing Taiwanese film "La comédie des ombres" and the projection of Clark's "Double Ghost" at the Chin Pao Shan...

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...

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

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...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...

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

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

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

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...

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

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 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...

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...

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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