Most Popular Raúl Ruiz Trailers
Total trailers found: 116
01 January 1970
A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.
01 September 1981
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.
12 June 1996
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
29 March 1995
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer.
28 August 2003
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
19 November 1968
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld.
01 April 1985
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
23 April 1975
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
09 October 2008
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero .
16 September 1973
The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.
05 February 1992
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.
03 March 2006
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
15 May 1996
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
19 May 1999
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
20 August 2007
This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden.
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
27 July 1978
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church.
30 August 2002
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz.
01 January 1988
A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.
01 June 2005
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World 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 wonders of aviation.
22 June 1991
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams.
09 May 1972
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
21 February 2020
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
04 April 1975
The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.
11 July 2012
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
01 January 1995
In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia.
22 February 1984
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 man with multiple personalities.
06 March 1991
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989).
06 April 1983
Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world.
16 November 1997
If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come).
19 August 1998
Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive.
23 July 1986
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
03 June 2009
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
01 January 1974
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform).
18 July 1984
In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion.
01 February 2012
In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism.
17 September 1980
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
04 June 2003
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house.
01 January 1980
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.
01 January 1992
All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It's based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a Swedish esoteric theologian from the 18th Century who started seeing ghosts, angels and demons around him.
15 August 1985
A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea.
01 January 1986
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
25 June 1985
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone).
03 July 1984
Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon.
02 October 1985
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur.
21 October 2010
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.
01 July 1976
Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.
29 June 1982
Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
01 March 1994
A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.
01 January 1978
Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation).
01 January 1971
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
01 January 1971
Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved.
04 April 1978
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 an effort to explain the series' significance.
13 September 1995
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.
01 January 1989
From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order.
15 September 1989
Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice.
21 September 1979
The most critically celebrated Rue essay of 1979 was the two-part Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France, directed by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz, who brought to this commission some of the stylistic fabulism for which he was becoming known in avant-garde cinema.
01 January 2012
A coin and a cup of coffee on a table top. Raúl Ruiz gets the most from this minimal set-up, both visually and through the laconic soundtrack.
05 September 2004
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.