Movie Database

Movies by Director - Raul Ruiz (103 [Missing: 70])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
The SuitcaseNA1963 Short Not Available
El regresoNA1963 Short Not Available
Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror, The [El Tango del Viudo y Su Espejo Deformante]The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.2020Raúl Ruiz, Valeria SarmientoDrama6.5 (181 votes)7020231016
Three Sad Tigers [Tres Tristes Tigres]The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.1968Raúl RuizDrama7.2 (316 votes)10020211228
La catenariaNA1969 Short Not Available
Militarismo y torturaNA1969 Documentary,Short Not Available
Penal Colony, The [La colonia penal]A journalist arrives on the Latin American island of Captiva, where a dictatorial President rules capriciously over a society that seems to consist mainly of males in military uniform, speaking a polyglot language.1970Raúl RuizDrama6.2 (61 votes)7520220414
¡Qué hacer!NA1972 Drama Not Available
Ahora te vamos a llamar hermanoNA1974 Documentary,Short Not Available
Nobody Said Anything [Nadie dijo nada]Surrealism ""a la chilena"" sees four drunken, literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.1971Raúl RuizComedy6.6 (56 votes)13520230126
The ExpropriationNA1974 Drama Not Available
Los minuterosNA1972 Short Not Available
Poesía popular: La teoría y la prácticaNA1972 Short Not Available
AbastecimientoNA1973 Documentary,Short Not Available
Little White DoveNA1992 Comedy,Drama,Romance Not Available
Palomilla bravaNA1973 Documentary Not Available
Socialist RealismNA2023 Drama Not Available
Dialogues of Exiles [Diálogos de exiliados]Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.1975Raúl RuizComedy,Drama6.8 (162 votes)10020211228
Utopia - The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down [Utopia]Two traveling salesmen are searching for the pieces of the body of a lost friend. Each piece of the corpse they discover corresponds to an isolated aspect of Utopia, like the absence of class or racial discrimination.1976Raúl RuizDrama7.2 (23 votes)6020211228
SoteloNA1976 Documentary,Short Not Available
Dog's DialogueNA1977 Short Not Available
The Suspended VocationNA1978 Drama Not Available
Les divisions de la natureNA1981 \N Not Available
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, The [L'hypothèse du tableau volé]Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an1978Raúl RuizDrama,Mystery7.4 (1.1K votes)6620211228
Of Great Events and Ordinary PeopleNA1979 Documentary Not Available
Images de débatNA1979 Comedy,Drama,News Not Available
JeuxNA1979 \N Not Available
Petit manuel d'histoire de FranceNA1979 Documentary Not Available
Le borgneNA1980 Drama Not Available
FahlstromNA1980 Documentary,Short Not Available
Snakes and LaddersNA1980 Mystery Not Available
Musée DaliNA1980 Documentary Not Available
La ville nouvelleNA1980 Short Not Available
Image de sableNA1981 Documentary,Short Not Available
Territory, TheA small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and1981Raúl RuizDrama,Horror6.4 (245 votes)10020211228
On Top of the Whale [Het dak van de Walvis]A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists o1982Raúl RuizFantasy,Mystery6.9 (226 votes)9020211228
Ombres chinoisesNA1982 Short Not Available
Le petit théâtreNA1982 Documentary,Short Not Available
Querelle de jardinsNA1982 Short Not Available
Three Crowns of the Sailor [Les trois couronnes du matelot]A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.1982Raúl RuizAdventure,Drama,Fantasy7.0 (1K votes)11720220414
Vanishing Point [Point de fuite]She left the United States because she don't like the chickens"" ""It's funny, I had somebody in my family who had exactly the same problem."" Quotes from the film. A film about destiny and luck. Two fishes--from 5 loaves and 2 fishes?1984Raúl RuizDrama6.0 (86 votes)7520211228
City of Pirates [La Ville des Pirates]A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.1983Raúl RuizAdventure,Drama,Fantasy7.3 (930 votes)11120211228
BéréniceA lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine's 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor who bends to popular will and declines to marry the Palestinian queen he loves.1983Raúl RuizDrama5.4 (49 votes)10520211228
The Real PresenceNA1984 \N Not Available
Treasure IslandRaúl Ruiz's fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.1986Raúl RuizAdventure,Fantasy6.2 (253 votes)11520240116
Insomniac on the Bridge, The [L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma]A peeping tom and a hunchback doing very bad things on Alma bridge.1985Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy,Mystery6.8 (81 votes)8520211228
Dans un miroirNA1986 Drama Not Available
MammameNA1986 Fantasy,Music Not Available
Life Is a Dream [Mémoire des apparences]A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as rea1986Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy7.1 (112 votes)10320211228
Richard IIINA1986 Drama Not Available
Régime sans painNA1985 Fantasy,Music,Musical Not Available
Brise-glaceNA1988 Documentary Not Available
Blind Owl, The [La chouette aveugle]A surrealistic and fantastic view of the world through the eyes of a film projectionist and a movie he projects which takes him to mysterious and dreamy places and situations while the audience to whom the film is destined doesn't...1987Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy7.1 (131 votes)10520221228
Professor TaranneNA1987 Drama Not Available
AllegoriaNA1988 Documentary Not Available
Tous les nuages sont des horlogesNA1988 Drama Not Available
Derrière le murNA1989 Music Not Available
Il pozzo dei pazziNA1989 Short Not Available
Golden Boat, TheAn absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.1990Raúl RuizAdventure,Comedy,Crime6.2 (123 votes)8320211228
Le livre de Christophe ColombeNA1990 Short Not Available
Wandering Soap Opera, The [La Telenovela Errante]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 ensemble of soap operas.2017Raúl Ruiz, Valeria SarmientoComedy,Drama,Fantasy6.5 (329 votes)8020211228
Basta la palabraNA1991 \N Not Available
L'exoteNA1991 Drama Not Available
Dark at NoonNA1992 Comedy,Fantasy Not Available
Las soledadesNA1992 Short Not Available
Visions & Merveilles de la religion chrétienneNA1992 Drama,Fantasy,Short Not Available
Capítulo 66NA1994 Fantasy,Short Not Available
Miroirs de TunisNA1993 Documentary Not Available
Fado, Major and Minor [Fado majeur et mineur]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 in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a1994Raúl RuizDrama6.3 (47 votes)11020211228
Viaggio clandestino - Vite di santi e di peccatoriNA1994 Fantasy Not Available
Three Lives and Only One DeathTake a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.1996Raúl RuizComedy,Crime,Fantasy6.9 (1.4K votes)12320211228
Genealogies of a Crime [Généalogies d'un crime]At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd vie1997Raúl RuizCrime,Drama,Thriller6.5 (883 votes)10320211228
Shattered ImageNA1998 Crime,Drama,Fantasy Not Available
Marcel Proust's Time Regained [Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust]A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.1999Raúl RuizDrama,Romance,War6.8 (2.5K votes)16920211228
Love Torn in a Dream [Combat d'amour en songe]Coming to you as if from a dream half-remembered, two oneiric fantasies by the great Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz. First, a great guide - with pages torn out - for beginners, this picture has stories-within-stories covering nearly the 2000Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy6.9 (334 votes)12020211228
Comedy of Innocence [Comédie de l'innocence]Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side-the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later2000Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy,Mystery6.5 (902 votes)10020211228
Savage SoulsAt 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 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence2001Raúl RuizDrama,Romance7.9 (1.9K votes)12020211228
That Day [Ce jour-là]A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house.2003Raúl RuizComedy,Crime,Drama6.7 (744 votes)10520211228
Cofralandes: Chilean Rhapsody, Part OneNA2002 Comedy,Documentary,Drama Not Available
MédéeNA2003 Documentary Not Available
Voyage of a HandNA1984 Short Not Available
Miotte vu par Raúl RuizNA2002 Documentary Not Available
Place Among the Living, A [Une place parmi les vivants]A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.2003Raúl RuizDrama6.9 (110 votes)10320211228
KlimtA portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.2006Raúl RuizBiography,Drama5.2 (3.1K votes)13120211228
Lost Domain, The [Le domaine perdu]Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during Worl War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wo2005Raúl RuizDrama,Fantasy6.6 (100 votes)10620211228
Days in the CountryNA2004 Drama Not Available
Nucingen House [La maison Nucingen]Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.2008Raúl RuizHorror6.0 (155 votes)9420211228
Cofralandes, Part Four: Memories and WaltzesNA2002 Comedy,Documentary,Drama Not Available
Vertigo of the Blank PageNA2003 Drama Not Available
Cofralandes, Part Three: Museums and Clubs in the AntarcticNA2002 Comedy,Documentary,Drama Not Available
The Film to ComeNA1997 Short Not Available
Blind Revenge [A Closed Book]Sir Paul, a distinguished author, blinded in a horrific accident, advertises for an amanuensis, an assistant to help him with his writing. He employs the amiable Jane Ryder to be his eyes as he revisits scenes from his past and works2009Raúl RuizMystery,Thriller5.3 (733 votes)8820211228
Cofralandes, Part Two: Faces and PlacesNA2002 Comedy,Documentary,Drama Not Available
Wind WaterNA1995 Short Not Available
L'estate breveNA2010 Documentary,Drama Not Available
The Yellow PassportNA2009 Drama Not Available
Night Across the Street [La Noche de Enfrente]A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.2012Raúl RuizComedy,Drama,Fantasy6.1 (488 votes)11020211228
Mysteries of LisbonNA2010 Drama Not Available
Ballet aquatiqueNA2011 Documentary Not Available
EpistolarNA2012 Short Not Available
Paya e tala, une visite chez Farid BelkahiaNA1988 Documentary,Short Not Available
Nueva Canción ChilenaNA1973 Documentary,Short Not Available
L'autel de l'amitiéNA1989 Documentary Not Available