Raúl Ruiz — Playwright (8)
Life Is a Dream (1987) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
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.
City of Pirates (1984) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
La Ville des pirates
director: Raúl Ruiz actor: Hugues Quester / Anne Alvaro
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.