Raul Ruiz complete filmography

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1. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode: A Vingança da Duquesa de Cliton (2011)

Not Rated | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme

Votes: 36

2. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode: Blanche de Monfort (2011)

Not Rated | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme, Martin Loizillon

Votes: 35

3. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode: Blanche de Monfort (2011)

Not Rated | 52 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme, Martin Loizillon

Votes: 35

4. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode: O Enigma do Padre Dinis (2011)

Not Rated | 54 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais

Votes: 35

6. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Episode: O Conde de Santa Bárbara (2011)

Not Rated | 53 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais

Votes: 42

7. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

82 Metascore

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

9. 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: 1,047

10. 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

13. Agathopedia (2008 Video)

52 min | Drama

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Director: Raúl Ruiz

Votes: 9

15. 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

16. 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

17. Klimt (2006)

Not Rated | 131 min | Biography, Drama

44 Metascore

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: 3,260

19. 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

20. Responso (2004 Video)

81 min

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Star: Jean Badin

Votes: 8

21. 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

23. 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: 782

26. Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002)

80 min | Documentary

The working process of abstract painter Jean Miotte is observed in great detail in director Raoul Ruiz's unconventional documentary.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Star: Jean Miotte

Votes: 24

30. 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

31. 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: 946

32. 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

33. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)

169 min | Drama, Romance, War

72 Metascore

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: 2,830 | Gross: $0.46M

34. Shattered Image (1998)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Jessie, a cool assassin on a mission, dreams she is a traumatized, paranoid rape victim on her honeymoon. This Jessie dreams that she is a cool assassin on a mission.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Lisanne Falk, Graham Greene

Votes: 745 | Gross: $0.10M

35. 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

37. 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: 1,544

40. Fado, Major and Minor (1994)

110 min | Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Melvil Poupaud, Ana Padrão, Jean-Yves Gautier

Votes: 58

42. Capítulo 66 (1994)

26 min | Short, Fantasy

A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.

Directors: Luis Ospina, Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Ricardo Duque, Rolf Abderhalden, María Paulina De Zubiria, Julio Contreras

Votes: 21

44. 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

48. A TV Dante (1989–1991)

88 min | Drama

The first eight cantos of Dante's Inferno (up to the entrance to the city of Dis). The text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.

Stars: Bob Peck, Joanne Whalley, John Gielgud, Fernando Bordeu

Votes: 384

55. 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: 152

56. 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

57. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. Mammame (1986)

65 min | Fantasy, Music

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Eric Alfieri, Mathilde Altaraz, Muriel Boulay, Christophe Delachaux

Votes: 123

67. 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

68. Richard III (1986)

135 min | Drama

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Ariel García Valdés, Gilles Arbona, Marc Betton, Annie Perret

Votes: 25

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

74. 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

75. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Episode: 7 faux raccords (1984)

60 min | Documentary

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Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Henri Alekan, Olimpia Carlisi, Raúl Ruiz

Votes: 12

76. 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

77. Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)

130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Manuel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), ... See full summary »

Stars: Ruben de Freitas, Teresa Madruga, Fernando Heitor, Marco Paulo de Freitas

Votes: 256

80. Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)
Episode: Les destins de Manoel (1984)

25 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Manuel goes to school one day, the night before his mother's precious jewels were stolen, on his way to school a familiar voice calls out to him to go to the forbidden garden where he meets himself from the future.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Ruben de Freitas, Marco Paulo de Freitas, Fernando Heitor, Teresa Madruga

Votes: 30

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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: 1,069

85. 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: 252

89. 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

90. Image de sable (1981)

15 min | Documentary, Short

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Directors: Nadine Descendre, Raúl Ruiz

Votes: 32

91. Musée Dali (1980)

38 min | Documentary

Video made to accompany a Dalí exhibition in the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Director: Raúl Ruiz

94. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)

30 min | Mystery

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière

Votes: 169

96. Fahlstrom (1980)

30 min | Documentary, Short

Video made to accompany a Fahlstrom exhibition in the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Director: Raúl Ruiz

97. 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: 1,205

99. Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979 TV Movie)

129 min | Documentary

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Director: Raúl Ruiz

Votes: 10

100. 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



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