Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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...

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...

This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the...

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

Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a...

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

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

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

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

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...

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...

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...