Raúl Ruiz Movies

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased...

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...

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

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.

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a...

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if...

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

A 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...

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

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.

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

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose...

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...

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

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