Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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

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

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment...

A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

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...

Raul Ruiz filmed the gardens of the Château de Versailles. The first one, French, focuses on the King's Square (a space where everything is...

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

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

"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 film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

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

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is...

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

The film was made from the show Edipo Iperboreo (1989), directed by Ruiz. The shooting took place in Buti (Villa Medicea, Castello di Buti and the...

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

Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.

Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the...

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