Raúl Ruiz — Director (27)
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Genealogies of a Crime (1997) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Généalogies d'un crime
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Catherine Deneuve / Michel Piccoli …
other title: Genealogia di un crimine / Genealogien eines Verbrechens …
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
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Little White Dove (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Palomita blanca
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Beatriz Lapido / Rodrigo Ureta …
other title: Palomita blanca
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. The film was shot in 1973 over six weeks with a budget of $170,000. As a result of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and military dictatorship (1973–1990), the film was presumed lost for many years and not released until 1992.
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Querelle de jardins (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Querelle de jardins
director: Raúl Ruiz
Raul Ruiz filmed the gardens of the Château de Versailles. The first one, French, focuses on the King's Square (a space where everything is arranged in order to be seen). The other one, English, is the exact opposite, because from any point within it, one falls out of view. Within these two constructions, the labyrinth and the concentric circles, Ruiz conceives a 'photo-roman' plot: a husband and his mistress rendez-vous in the English garden (one understands why) and, through a series of accidents and afraid of being seen, he relocates to the other garden.
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The Blind Owl (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Chouette aveugle
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-François Lapalus / Jean-Bernard Guillard …
other title: La Chouette aveugle / La chouette aveugle
In Paris, an Arab immigrant working as a projectionist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman he sees on the cinema screen. Following a visit from a man claiming to be his uncle, his world begins to mirror a macabre and cyclical narrative.
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7 False Connections (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
7 faux raccords
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Olimpia Carlisi / Henri Alekan …
other title: 7 faux raccords
Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.
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The One-Eyed Man (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le borgne
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-Christophe Bouvet / Pascal Bonitzer …
other title: Le borgne / Le Borgne
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.
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Snakes and Ladders (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Zig~Zag - le jeu de l'oie (Une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie)
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Pascal Bonitzer / Jean-Loup Rivière
other title: Il gioco dell'oca / Zig~Zag - le jeu de l'oie (Une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) …
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
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The Penal Colony (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La colonia penal
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Mónica Echeverría / Luis Alarcón …
other title: La Colonie pénitentiaire / La colonia penal
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.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.
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Vanishing Point (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Point de fuite
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Steve Baës / Rebecca Pauly …
other title: Point de fuite / Fluchtpunkte …
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
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The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Michael Lonsdale / Olimpia Carlisi …
other title: L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma / L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma
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. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
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Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Utopía o el cuerpo repartido y el mundo al revés
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Fosi Bendeck / Eduardo Bähr …
other title: Le Corps dispersé et le Monde à l'envers / Utopía o el cuerpo repartido y el mundo al revés
Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.
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Manoel’s Destinies (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Manoel dans l’île des merveilles
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Ruben de Freitas / Teresa Madruga …
other title: Manoel dans l’île des merveilles / Manoel's Destinies …
When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.
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Régime sans pain (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Régime sans pain
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Anne Alvaro / Olivier Angèle …
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). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Combat d'amour en songe
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Melvil Poupaud / Elsa Zylberstein …
other title: Pugna d’amore in sogno / Combate de Amor em Sonho …
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
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Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
De grands événements et des gens ordinaires
director: Raúl Ruiz
other title: De grands événements et des gens ordinaires
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
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The Solitudes (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Las soledades
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Raúl Ruiz / Jean Badin
other title: Las soledades
"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was made in Chile, using many poetic elements of the country. Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter—a painter who uses the traditional 18th-century concepts of Shih-Tao. Once again, I am doing something that, apparently, is not meant to go hand in hand.
The landscape of my country, southern Chile, where I was born, initially provokes in me a feeling of fear. The landscape is madness. In these crazy landscapes, you can find very reasonable people, which makes the landscape seem even crazier."
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The Golden Boat (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Golden Boat
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Michael Kirby / Federico Muchnik …
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. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
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The Territory (1981) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
O Território
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Geoffrey Carey / Paul Getty Jr. …
other title: O Território / Le Territoire
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.