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1. 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
2. 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: 3,259
3. Savage Souls (2001)
120 min | Drama, Romance
At 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal, Arielle Dombasle, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,920
4. Lines of Wellington (2012)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War
On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,570
5. 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
6. 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
7. Blind Revenge (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Mystery, Thriller
Sir Paul, a distinguished author, blinded in a horrific accident, advertises for an amanuensis.
Directors: Raoul Ruiz, Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Tom Conti, Daryl Hannah, Miriam Margolyes, Elaine Paige
Votes: 1,046
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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: 525
11. Dog's Dialogue (1977)
22 min | Short
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne
Votes: 524
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. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Luis Alarcón, Patricia Rivadeneira, Francisco Reyes, Consuelo Castillo
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.00M
14. 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
15. The Black Book (2018)
113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam
Votes: 262
16. 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
17. 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
18. Janela Indiscreta (2010– )
30 min | News
A portuguese show where Mario Augusto presents the new films of the week and interviews actors, actresses and directors.
Stars: Mário Augusto, Paulo Branco, Nicolau Breyner, Afonso Pimentel
Votes: 231
19. Doctor Chance (1997)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A young gangster deals with stolen works of art and other dodgy items under the order of his overbearing mother. When both a rival gang and a dazzlingly beautiful prostitute get in the way,... See full summary »
Director: F.J. Ossang | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Elvire, Marisa Paredes, Stéphane Ferrara
Votes: 201
20. The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
70 min | Drama
The story of a man whose wife has committed suicide and appears to him as a ghost, following him everywhere and changing his personality.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Rubén Sotoconil, Claudia Paz, Luis Alarcón, Shenda Román
Votes: 187
21. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
266 min | Drama
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 sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Votes: 183
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait (1978)
85 min | Documentary
Portrait of Ocaña, a multi-artist who exploded the prevailing conventions in Barcelona during the last years of Franco's dictatorship.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Ocaña, Camilo, Guillermo, Nazario
Votes: 149
26. 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
27. The Film to Come (1997)
9 min | Short
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Féodor Atkine, Jean-Yves Gautier, Margot Marguerite, Abdelwahab Meddeb
Votes: 142
28. Genèse d'un repas (1979)
115 min | Documentary
With this documentary on the plots and sub-plots of the universe of food, Moullet moves away from comedy to become a pioneer of today's trend to analyze the forms of globalization by ... See full synopsis »
Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Paul Anquetil, Emile Azoulay, Gustavo Borges, Jean Bouy
Votes: 121
29. 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
30. 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
31. L'inconnu de Strasbourg (1998)
100 min | Mystery, Thriller
Following a seemingly accidental death, a lover-on-the-run is struck by amnesia. Why is he then mistaken for the mysterious heir to a fortune in Strasbourg?
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Ornella Muti, Charles Berling, Johan Leysen, Christian Vadim
Votes: 106
32. La Recta Provincia (2007)
180 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The Recta Provincia is a kind of sect led by witches on the largest island in South America, the cradle of the founding myths of Chilean culture.
Stars: Bélgica Castro, Ignacio Agüero, Ángel Parra, Javiera Parra
Votes: 106
33. Lines of Wellington (2012– )
170 min | War
Stars: Miguel Borges, Nuno Lopes, João Arrais, Filipe Vargas
Votes: 92
34. Rosa la China (2002)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Notorious businessman Dulzara runs a casino where his lover Rosa headlines, but Rosa is two-timing him with younger ladies' man Marcos.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Juan Luis Galiardo, Luisa María Jiménez, Abel Rodríguez, Daisy Granados
Votes: 75
35. Secretos (2008)
85 min | Comedy
What kind of secrets is this film talking about? There is a bit of everything: murder, robbery and treason. With seriousness and a dash of humour, Secretos reveals how, after a decades-long... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Claudia Di Girólamo, Sergio Hernández, Álvaro Espinoza, Marcial Edwards
Votes: 70
36. Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1991)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Franco Nero, Laura del Sol, Laura Benson, Valérie Mairesse
Votes: 68
37. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Documentary
A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.
Stars: Michel Boujut, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 64
38. ¡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
39. Bérénice (1983)
105 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Anne Alvaro, Jean Badin, Franck Oger
Votes: 60
40. Elle (1995)
86 min | Drama, Mystery
"El" re-imagined by Ruiz and Sarmiento as a portrait of a marriage characterized by shared jealousy, paranoia and lunacy.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Marine Delterme, Didier Flamand, Valérie Zarrouk, Nevena Mandadzhieva
Votes: 58
41. Voyage of a Hand (1984)
25 min | Short
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Franck Oger, Nadège Clair, Camila Mora-Scheihing, Martine Odile
Votes: 57
42. Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1979)
65 min | Documentary
A cinéma vérité documentary about the elections in Paris which reflexively inverts in on itself.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Baudrillard
Votes: 56
43. 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
44. Las soledades (1992)
20 min | Short
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Badin, Raúl Ruiz
Votes: 51
45.
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode:
O Menino Sem Nome
(2011)
Not Rated | 53 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais
Votes: 42
46.
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode:
O Conde de Santa Bárbara
(2011)
Not Rated | 53 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais
Votes: 42
47. Notre mariage (1984)
95 min | Drama
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nadège Clair, Nicolas Silberg, Jean-Pierre Tailhade, Maud Rayer
Votes: 38
48. 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
49. El hombre, cuando es hombre (1982)
66 min | Documentary
What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin America?
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Star: Jorge Negrete
Votes: 37
50.
Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode:
A Vingança da Duquesa de Cliton
(2011)
Not Rated | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Votes: 36