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1. Night Across the Street (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa, Valentina Vargas
Votes: 524
2. Ballet aquatique (2011)
50 min | Documentary
This homage to the scientific surrealism of the French documentary filmmaker Jean Painleve features several commentators on his work,who we see sitting at a table,surrounded by books,and philosophizing.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Nicolas Joly, François Margolin, Melvil Poupaud, Raúl Ruiz
Votes: 70
3. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais
Votes: 3,608 | Gross: $0.11M
4. Nucingen House (2008)
94 min | Horror
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Marc Barr, Laurent Malet, Audrey Marnay
Votes: 172
5. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko
Votes: 5,447
6. Klimt (2006)
Not Rated | 131 min | Biography, Drama
A 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 3,256
7. The Lost Domain (2005)
106 min | Drama, Fantasy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: François Cluzet, Grégoire Colin, Christian Colin, Julie Delarme
Votes: 114
8. Days in the Country (2004)
89 min | Drama
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcial Edwards, Mario Montilles, Bélgica Castro, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 155
9. A Place Among the Living (2003 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Thierry Gibault, Valérie Kaprisky, Cécile Bois
Votes: 117
10. That Day (2003)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Elsa Zylberstein, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 781
11. Comedy of Innocence (2000)
100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jeanne Balibar, Charles Berling, Edith Scob
Votes: 945
12. Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy
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... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim
Votes: 381
13. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
169 min | Drama, Romance, War
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Votes: 2,828 | Gross: $0.46M
14. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.08M
15. Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
123 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Take 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 1,540
16. Dark at Noon (1992)
100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Come to the Village of the Dogs, it's easy to find. Just follow the avenue of crutches and the prosthetic legs hanging from the trees. It's where the Virgin Mary keeps appearing in the sky,... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Hurt, Didier Bourdon, Lorraine Evanoff, David Warner
Votes: 147
17. The Golden Boat (1990)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An absurdist odyssey through downtown Manhattan with a sweet old serial killer, a student-cum-critic-cum-musician and assorted international bohemians.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Michael Kirby, Federico Muchnik, Brett Alexander, Mary Hestand
Votes: 151
18. The Blind Owl (1987)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-François Lapalus, Jessica Forde, Jean-Bernard Guillard, Jean-Marie Boëglin
Votes: 145
19. Life Is a Dream (1986)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
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 real as life.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Sylvain Thirolle, Roch Leibovici, Bénédicte Sire, Laurence Cortadellas
Votes: 126
20. Professor Taranne (1987)
52 min | Drama
A conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world around him. Being accused of things he couldn't have been doing starts doubting himself - a self that might be fragmented or multiple.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jacqueline Bollen, Marie-Luce Bonfanti, Ioanna Gkizas, Brigitte Simon
Votes: 31
21. Treasure Island (1986)
115 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Raúl Ruiz's fabulist modern-day riff on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Vic Tayback, Martin Landau, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 258
22. Régime sans pain (1985)
75 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical
During his televised speech, Jason III, interim ruler of the rock principality of Vercors, points out that for the first time the voter satisfaction rating is declining. This is the signal ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Anne Alvaro, Olivier Angèle, Gérard Maimone, Gilles Arbona
Votes: 40
23. Dans un miroir (1986)
65 min | Drama
A man comes to visit another man who is supposed to be sick, and talks to his sister while he waits.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Claude Wino, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 11
24. L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma (1985)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A peeping tom and a hunchback doing very bad things on Alma bridge.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Michael Lonsdale, Olimpia Carlisi, Jean Badin, Jean-Bernard Guillard
Votes: 89
25. The Real Presence (1984)
60 min
Odd "fictional documentary" about the Avignon Festival.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Franck Oger, Nadège Clair, Camila Mora-Scheihing, Catherine Oudin
Votes: 23
26. Vanishing Point (1984)
75 min | Drama
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Steve Baës, Rebecca Pauly, Paulo Branco, Tony Jessen
Votes: 97
27. City of Pirates (1983)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, Melvil Poupaud, André Engel
Votes: 1,068
28. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Votes: 1,155
29.
Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Episode:
Lettre d'un cinéaste ou Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques
(1983)
15 min | Documentary
In 1982, the director Raoul Ruiz returned to Chile for the first time since the 1973 military coup. This short was the result.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Waldo Rojas, Carlos Solanos, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 18
30. On Top of the Whale (1982)
90 min | Fantasy, Mystery
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel
Votes: 251
31. The Territory (1981)
100 min | Drama, Horror
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 wander around lost for days and weeks, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Geoffrey Carey, John Paul Getty III, Jeffrey Kime, Camila Mora-Scheihing
Votes: 293
32. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)
66 min | Drama, Mystery
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm
Votes: 1,202
33. The Suspended Vocation (1978)
90 min | Drama
Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer, Gabriel Gascon, Maurice Bénichou
Votes: 170
34. Diálogos de exiliados (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget, Sergio Hernández
Votes: 177
35. La expropiación (1974)
60 min | Drama
An Agronom arrive at a farm to expropriate land, but the landowner is willing to leave the country voluntarily. A revolt among the tenants occur.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Delfina Guzmán, Nemesio Antúnez, Jaime Vadell, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 37
36. Socialist Realism (2023)
78 min | Drama
A satirical reading of the process of the "Unidad Popular" of President Salvador Allende, prior to the military civic coup of 1973 in Chile. The film is a choral story, where different worlds are chained together.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nemesio Antúnez, Marcial Edwards, Colectivo Obrero Elmo Catalán, Javier Maldonado
Votes: 55
37. Little White Dove (1992)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A poor schoolgirl and a young man from a wealthy family have an affair.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Beatriz Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Mónica Díaz, Manuel Aranguiz
Votes: 240
38. Nobody Said Anything (1971)
135 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Carlos Solanos, Jaime Vadell, Luis Vilches, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 65
39. ¡Qué hacer! (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A Brechtian mix of political fiction, real-life footage and Country Joe McDonald music. In Chile in 1970, a young woman Peace Corps worker becomes involved with a mysterious American 'businessman' and a local revolutionary.
Directors: Saul Landau, Raúl Ruiz, Nina Serrano | Stars: Sandra Archer, Aníbal Reyna, Richard Stahl, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 64
40. The Penal Colony (1970)
75 min | Drama
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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Mónica Echeverría, Luis Alarcón, Aníbal Reyna, Nelson Villagra
Votes: 71
41. Three Sad Tigers (1968)
100 min | Drama
The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Shenda Román, Nelson Villagra, Luis Alarcón, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 385
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