Jorge Arriagada

Los Herederos (2024)

A true story where the magical and the supernatural come together to make everything happen. ...

Traces (2023)

A journey back to the darkest years of the military dictatorship, where Valeria Sarmiento, using for the first time in her career her own voice, reflects on the traces of the political violence of that period and summons the testimony of victims and privil ...

Socialist Realism (2023)

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. ...

L'Heure du départ (2022)

How do those who may die tomorrow live? Camille visits Louis and then Rosa. These images, shot by Raymond Depardon and Patrick Blossier, introduce her approach. In a playful intimacy, she then begins to film Germaine. ...

Ensayo para Güemes (2021)

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)

A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her. ...

Entierro (2020)

This documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music. ...

The Black Book (2018)

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from ...

The Wandering Soap Opera (2018)

The film 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. ...

Exote: Filming Of The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema. ...

Sélection Officielle (2017)

Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulyss ...

What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder? (2017)

An incident with his neighbor sends director Barbet Schroeder on a quest for inner peace. ...

Wastelands (2016)

Two brothers return to Chile after years in Iraq. ...

Florida (2015)

Although he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. But his bouts of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming increasingly frequent. Even so, he stubbornly refuses to admit that anything is wrong. Carole, his oldest d ...

Cycling with Molière (2013)

Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France's Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serg ...

Lines of Wellington (2012)

Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon's 1810 invasion of Portugal. ...

Night Across the Street (2012)

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories. ...

Have You Seen Lupita? (2012)

Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to thi ...

Cornelia frente al espejo (2012)

Young Cornelia arrives at her father's old house to take her own life. As she attempts to accomplish her mission, she is continually interrupted by unexpected apparitions: a mysterious girl, a thief, and a lover. ...

Ballet aquatique (2012)

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism. Ruiz and friends further perfect the art of mystification. Why it is ...

The Women on the 6th Floor (2011)

Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life ...

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

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 con ...

Pour tout l'or des Andes (2010)

From the plains of the Huasco Valley to the Atacama Desert and the mines of northern Chile, the narrator gathers the testimonies of farmers, neighbors, small landowners and political leaders. In the surrounding area and in the Pascua Lama gold mine itself, ...

The Night Visitor (2009)

Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to un ...

Nucingen House (2009)

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there. ...

Secrets (2008)

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current cou ...

The Suitcase (2008)

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase. ...

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation. ...

Mansacue (2008)

Ésta es una película que sigue la temática de la serie “La vida es una lotería”, donde la suerte y el dinero son los que mueven a sus protagonistas. ...

La Recta Provincia (2007)

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the ...

Terror's Advocate (2007)

A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants int ...

Mirageman (2007)

After being brutally assaulted, an incident which also saw the death of his parents and the rape of his younger brother (which mentally scarred him to the point of having to be institutionalized), Maco Gutierrez has devoted his life to fitness and practici ...

Opus Dei - Una cruzada silenciosa (2006)

Melvil (2006)

«Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play. ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

The Lost Domain (2005)

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. ...

The Wretched Life of Juanita Narboni (2005)

The daughter of an Englishman and an Andalusian woman, Juanita rejects the historical changes taking place in Tangier.She lives alone in this "Paradise lost", surrounded by her sister Elena; Esther, her close friend who dedicates her entire life to an impo ...

Operation Hollywood (2004)

The American military forces has a long tradition of cooperation with the movie industry. Movie studios can save millions of dollars by securing use of military stock footage, equipment and manpower. But there will only be cooperation if the scripts are de ...

Salvador Allende (2004)

A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch"? In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán (The Bat ...

Days in the Country (2004)

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality. ...

El duelo (2004)

Two men at cause of confusion and superstitions become involved in a duel that ends unexpectedly. ...

A Place Among the Living (2003)

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes. ...

That Day (2003)

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. ...

Pronobis (2003)

Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend will soon discover... ...

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (2002)

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a ...

El astrónomo y el indio (2002)

4 of the world biggest astronomical observatories have been built in the Atacama desert (Chile). A new observatory, the ALMA, is going to be constructed close to an Indian village established in the same Cordillera for centuries. The film questions the co- ...

Madrid (2002)

A charming and meditative ode to the city of Madrid, where Guzmán studied directing and filmmaking during the 1960s, and escaped to from Chile after the military coup. Traveling through the streets of contemporary Madrid, Guzmán's essayistic film freely ...

Savage Souls (2001)

At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes th ...

Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

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 conve ...

Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)

World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but harden ...

Comedy of Innocence (2000)

Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's ...

Time Regained (1999)

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. ...

Robinson Crusoe Island (1999)

A passionate fan of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe as a 13-year-old boy, Guzmán was delighted to find in his adult years that the story is based on actual events & a real place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 700 kilometres from the Chilean coast. Thi ...

Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde (1999)

In the seas of southern Chile, where the known world ends, in dangerous waters and ghost ports, a space where everything is possible, a group of sailors dare still to dream in mysteries and enchantments... ...

Enthusiasm (1998)

A man's enthusiasm turns into greed and causes trouble for his family. ...

Shattered Image (1998)

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeym ...

The Film to Come (1997)

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, somna ...

Transatlantique (1997)

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, ...

Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies. ...

The Eyes of Asia (1997)

Julian Nakaura, a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1582, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated European royalty, Julian was forc ...

Elle (1996)

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness. ...

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

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. ...

Mi último hombre (1996)

A female television journalist has a strange affair with a terrorist. ...

Wind Water (1995)

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T'ao's six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to on ...

Los náufragos (1994)

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of d ...

It's All True (1993)

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America. ...

The End of the World (1993)

In the quietness of rural life, small disputes about the right to use a rivulet may take the proportion of a life-and-death matter.. ...

Urgence d'aimer (1993)

Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to donate her bone marrow for a transplant, on the condition that she does not seek to know the recipient, she ...

Exterior Night (1993)

Shot in high-definition video using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. films noirs. A young man (in color) searches for his past through black-and-white scenes from "The Big Sleep," "Mildred Pierce," and "Strangers on a Train. ...

Dark at Noon (1992)

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate t ...

The Solitudes (1992)

"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 ...

Cold Land (1992)

In the forties, in a little settlement lost amidst the mountains of Trás-os-Montes, Leonardo tries to survive by buying and selling marten and fox furs, dreaming of the day he'll close a big deal. ...

Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1992)

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister. ...

The Sky Above Paris (1992)

Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else. ...

Three Crowns of the Sailor (1991)

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story. ...

The Disenchanted (1990)

A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life. ...

Brise-glace (1990)

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej". ...

Un jeu d'enfant (1990)

During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, where he discovers a more rigorous world. ...

The King's Trial (1990)

At the time Portugal presented a strange spectacle to the rest of Europe. D. Afonso VI, son of the fortunate D. João de Bragança, was in possession of the throne and was an insane imbecile. His wife, daughter of the Duke of Nemours and cousin of Louis XI ...

Winter's Child (1989)

Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues. ...

Terre sacrée (1988)

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself. ...

The Blind Owl (1987)

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. ...

Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace (1987)

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz. ...

Dog's Dialogue (1987)

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

Life Is a Dream (1987)

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. ...

Burning Bush (1987)

Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean. ...

Miracle Healing (1987)

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam. ...

Professor Taranne (1987)

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is being accused of things he couldn't have been doing. He starts doubting himself - a self that might be fragmen ...

Children of the Cold War (1986)

Gáspar is a public employee and Rebeca works in a funeral home,they reflect the discontent of a generation that has suffered the vicissitudes of Chile in the 1980s. Through it, the film explores how the working middle class survives such a convulsive envi ...

August 15th (1986)

In a villa by the sea, in August, a woman spends her vacation with another young woman, her son and an au pair. She awaits the return of her husband who comes to join her; the au pair is also waiting for this return... ...

Dans un miroir (1986)

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting. ...

Treasure Island (1986)

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. ...

Richard III (1986)

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne. ...

The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985)

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 al ...

Notre mariage (1985)

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father. ...

The Terrible Lovers (1985)

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisian woman and her Slavic boyfriend out to spend some qual ...

Ave Maria (1984)

Naive villagers find themselves duped by a pair of con artists who sweep into town proclaiming themselves "Holy Father" and "Holy Mother." Soon the pair of cons are making out like the bandits that they are, as the villagers hand over their money and their ...

Manoel’s Destinies (1984)

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 gard ...

Vanishing Point (1984)

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen. ...

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984)

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city. ...

City of Pirates (1984)

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. ...

Bérénice (1983)

Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choo ...

The Conversation Is Over (1982)

The film was to be a documentary, but evolved during production to a fictional film. It nevertheless adheres strictly to the poems and letters exchanged by two of the most outstanding names of the Modernist Movement, Fernando Pessoa (in Lisbon) and Mário ...

On Top of the Whale (1982)

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 ...

The Territory (1981)

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost. ...

Snakes and Ladders (1980)

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography. ...

The Suspended Vocation (1978)

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 argumen ...

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

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 ...

Entierro (2020)

This documentary was born with the idea of portray accurately and factually the story of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music. ...