Cast
- C Carlos Solanos Waldo Martínez
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Jaime Vadell Germán - L Luis Vilches Tomás
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Luis Alarcón Braulio (The Poet) -
Nelson Villagra Devil (Tony Ventura) - S Shenda Román Elsa / Postisa
- P Pedro Gaete God
- H Humberto Miranda Suicide
- C Carla Cristi Abandoned Mother
- C Carmen Lara Abandoned Wife
- R Rodrigo Maturana Santiaguino
- A Aquiles Varas Santiaguino
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3h 41m togetherBoth from Raúl Ruiz.
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The One-Eyed Man · 1980The One-Eyed Man
★ 9.01980
MovieDrama
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.
Chuquiago · 1977Chuquiago
★ 8.11977
MovieDrama
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Of Great Events and Ordinary People · 1980Of Great Events and Ordinary People
★ 7.51980
MovieDocumentary
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.
Mysteries of Lisbon · 2010Mysteries of Lisbon
★ 7.22010
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Manuel on the Island of Wonders · 1984Manuel on the Island of Wonders
★ 7.21984
SeriesKidsSci-Fi & Fantasy
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).
Palombella rossa · 1989Palombella rossa
★ 7.21989
MovieComedyDrama
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. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.
Richard III · 1986Richard III
★ 7.01986
Movie
Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting · 1978The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
★ 7.01978
MovieDramaMystery
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.
Brise-glace · 1990Brise-glace
★ 6.61990
MovieDocumentary
Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
The Suspended Vocation · 1978The Suspended Vocation
★ 6.61978
MovieDrama
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. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
Genealogies of a Crime · 1997Genealogies of a Crime
★ 6.51997
MovieCrimeDrama
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Mysteries of Lisbon · 2011Mysteries of Lisbon
★ 6.52011
SeriesDrama
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 and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
To Each His Own Cinema · 2007To Each His Own Cinema
★ 6.42007
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Treasure Island · 1986Treasure Island
★ 6.41986
MovieDramaAdventure
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.
Time Regained · 1999Time Regained
★ 6.31999
MovieDrama
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.
The Film to Come · 1997The Film to Come
★ 6.31997
Movie
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). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1
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★ 7.51981
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Funny Face · 1957Funny Face
★ 7.01957
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★ 5.72016
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Caché · 2005Caché
★ 7.02005
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As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.
Murder by Numbers · 2002Murder by Numbers
★ 6.22002
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Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Labyrinth · 2003Labyrinth
★ 6.62003
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Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?
Inception · 2010Inception
★ 8.42010
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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
The Portrait of a Lady · 1996The Portrait of a Lady
★ 5.91996
MovieDramaRomance
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.
Best of Enemies · 2015Best of Enemies
★ 7.22015
MovieDocumentaryHistory
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"
