Raúl Ruiz — Playwright (19)
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Three Sad Tigers (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Tres tristes tigres
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Shenda Román / Nelson Villagra …
other title: Tre tristi tigri / Trois tristes tigres …
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. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
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Fado, Major and Minor (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fado majeur et mineur
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Jean-Luc Bideau / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: Fado majeur et mineur
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 young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
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The Lost Domain (2005) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Le Domaine perdu
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: François Cluzet / Grégoire Colin …
other title: Le Domaine perdu / El libro extraviado
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.
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That Day (2003) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ce jour-là
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Bernard Giraudeau / Elsa Zylberstein …
other title: Quel giorno / Ce jour-là
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. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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La Recta Provincia (2007) [TV] TMDB
La Recta Provincia
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Bélgica Castro / Ignacio Agüero …
other title: La Recta Provincia. Terre de sorciers
La Recta Provincia évoque une province de Chiloé, la plus grande île d'Amérique du sud, où Raoul Ruiz enfant passait ses vacances en famille. Dans cette région où se concentre la moitié des histoires du Chili, entre folklore et mythe, existe aussi une organisation secrète conduite par des sorciers. Cette sorte de secte se nomme également Recta Provincia.
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On Top of the Whale (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Het dak van de Walvis
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Willeke van Ammelrooy / Jean Badin …
other title: Le Toit de la baleine / Het dak van de Walvis
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 language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
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Klimt (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Klimt
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: John Malkovich / Veronica Ferres …
Auf dem Sterbebett blickt der berühmte Jugendstil-Maler Gustav Klimt in Gesellschaft des jungen Künstlers Egon Schiele noch einmal auf sein ebenso ausschweifendes wie faszinierendes Leben zurück.
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Treasure Island (1986) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
L'Île au trésor
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Vic Tayback / Martin Landau …
other title: L'Île au trésor / La isla del tesoro …
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.
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Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Trois vies et une seule mort
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Anna Galiena …
other title: Tre vite e una sola morte / Drei Leben und ein Tod …
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.
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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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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 / Melvil Poupaud …
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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Love Torn in a Dream (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Combat d'amour en songe
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Melvil Poupaud / Melvil Poupaud …
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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City of Pirates (1984) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
La Ville des pirates
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Hugues Quester / Melvil Poupaud …
other title: La villa dei pirati / A Cidade dos Piratas …
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.
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Life Is a Dream (1987) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
Mémoire des apparences
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Sylvain Thirolle / Roch Leibovici …
other title: Mémoire des apparences
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.