Direction: Raoul Ruiz

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Raoul Ruiz. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Armanda Bacelar · Aurélie Chazelle · Luis Gaspar da Silva · José de Freitas

Synopsis Manoel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit aka Les destins de Manoel) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), arriving in...

7.8

71 votes

7.8

71 votes

Mysteries of Lisbon (TV Miniseries)

2010 · Series · 360 min. · Portugal

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Adriano Luz · Maria João Bastos · Ricardo Pereira · Clotilde Hesme

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2010). 6 Episodes. An adaptation of the eponymous 19th century Portuguese novel by Camilo Castelo Branco. It centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry,...

7.4

215 votes

7.4

215 votes

Mammame

1986 · Movie · 65 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Eric Alfieri · Mathilde Altaraz · Muriel Boulay · Christophe Delachaux

Synopsis Based on a choreography by Jean-Claude Gallotta, this movie shows the sexual repressions existing between the dancers, five males and four women, before a conciliating final.

7.2

27 votes

7.2

27 votes

Mysteries of Lisbon

2010 · Movie · 266 min. · Portugal

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Adriano Luz · Maria João Bastos · Ricardo Pereira · Clotilde Hesme

Synopsis Mysteries of Lisbon plunges us into a veritable whirlwind of adventures and escapades, coincidences and revelations, sentiments and violent passions, vengeance, love affairs, all wrapped in a rhapsodic voyage that takes us from Portugal to France, Italy, and as far...

7.2

885 votes

7.2

885 votes

Bérénice

1983 · Movie · 105 min. · France

7.2

35 votes

7.2

35 votes

City of Pirates

1983 · Movie · 111 min. · France

7.0

149 votes

7.0

149 votes

Three Crowns of the Sailor

1983 · Movie · 117 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Jean-Bernard Guillard · Philippe Deplanche · Jean Badin · Nadège Clair

Synopsis In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in exotic South American ports where...

7.0

142 votes

7.0

142 votes

The Solitudes (S)

1992 · Movie · 20 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Jean Badin · Raoul Ruiz

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

7.0

281 votes

Three Sad Tigers

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Chile

6.9

141 votes

6.9

141 votes

Little White Dove

1973 · Movie · 125 min. · Chile

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Beatriz Lapido · Rodrigo Ureta · Luis Alarcón · Bélgica Castro

Synopsis 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. Set in the frenzied period after Salvador Allende's election as president of...

6.9

130 votes

6.9

130 votes

La Recta Provincia (TV Miniseries)

2007 · Series · 180 min. · Chile

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Bélgica Castro · Ignacio Agüero · Angel Parra · Chamila Rodríguez

Synopsis Once upon a time there was a man. He lived with his mother, and worked as the caretaker of a large country house in Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone had holes in...

6.8

63 votes

6.8

63 votes

6.8

78 votes

6.8

50 votes

Dog Symposium (S)

1977 · Movie · 22 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Eva Simonet · Robert Darmel · Silke Humel · Frank Lesne

Synopsis A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

6.7

85 votes

6.7

85 votes

Time Regained

1999 · Movie · 162 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Emmanuelle Béart · Vincent Pérez · John Malkovich

Synopsis In 1922 France, the writer Marcel Proust is on his deathbed, scenes from the past flashing before his eyes. But what he is remembering is not his own life; he has become the narrator in a past filled with the...

6.7

231 votes

6.7

231 votes

The Wandering Soap Opera

2017 · Movie · 90 min. · Chile

Direction Raoul Ruiz · Valeria Sarmiento

Cast Luis Alarcón · Patricia Rivadeneira · Francisco Reyes · Consuelo Castillo

Synopsis This missing and lost film -concluded by Ruiz's wife- 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. There are four...

6.7

145 votes

6.7

145 votes

6.6

33 votes

6.6

85 votes

6.6

64 votes