List of the best Raoul Ruiz movies: Life Is a Dream(1987), Love Torn in Dream(2000), Three Lives and Only One Death(1996), Comedy of Innocence(2000), Genealogies of a Crime(1997), Night Across the Street(2012), Klimt(2006), Shattered Image(1998), Savage Souls(2001), City of Pirates(1983), Mysteries of Lisbon(2010), Palombella rossa(1989) ... ...
Fantasy, Drama
France
1987
100 Minutes
Director
Sylvain Thirolle Roch Leibovici Bénédicte Sire Jean-Bernard Guillard Jean-Pierre Agazar Alain Halle-Halle Jean-Francois Lapalus Alain Rimoux Laurence Cortadellas
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 ... See full summary »
Fantasy, Drama
France|Portugal|Chile
2000
90 Minutes
Director
Melvil Poupaud Elsa Zylberstein Lambert Wilson Christian Vadim Diogo Doria Rogério Samora Marie-France Pisier
Coming to you as if from a dream half-remembered, two oneiric fantasies by the great Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz. First, a great guide - with pages torn out - for beginners, this picture has... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France|Portugal
1996
124 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Anna Galiena Marisa Paredes Melvil Poupaud Chiara Mastroianni Arielle Dombasle Féodor Atkine Jacques Pieller Jean-Yves Gautier Pierre Bellemare Lou Castel
salesman wife professor panhandler butler tycoon creative intricate amusing offbeat paris mansion street apartment sorbonne truth identity alternate reality deception secrets
Take a walk into the dreamlike world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisting ride. Four strangely symmetrical stories unfold involving love, lust, crime, and time.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2000
102 Minutes
Director
Isabelle Huppert Jeanne Balibar Charles Berling Nils Hugon Édith Scob Denis Podalydès Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Chantal Bronner
mother father son music teacher uncle psychiatrist dreamy offbeat eerie paris park household mother/son relationship birthday party reincarnation tragic death psychiatry mental illness mystery discovery
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 ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Portugal
1997
114 Minutes
Director
Catherine Deneuve Michel Piccoli Melvil Poupaud Andrzej Seweryn Bernadette Lafont Monique Melinand Hubert Saint-Macary Laurence Clement
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Drama
Chile|France
2012
110 Minutes
Director
Christian Vadim Valentina Vargas Chamila Rodríguez Pedro Vicuña Marcial Edwards Pablo Krögh Sergio Hernández Cristián Gajardo Valentina Muhr
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Biography, Drama
Austria|France|Germany|UK
2006
95 Minutes
Director
John Malkovich Veronica Ferres Stephen Dillane Saffron Burrows Nikolai Kinski Aglaia Szyszkowitz Annemarie Düringer Marion Mitterhammer Sandra Ceccarelli Gunther Gillian Paul Hilton
artist john malkovich man woman painter austrian charming creative melodramatic inspiring lighthearted fascinating austria vienna art studio artist's studio art gallery art art history relationships
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|UK
1998
102 Minutes
Director
Anne Parillaud William Baldwin Lisanne Falk Graham Greene Billy Wilmott O'Neil Peart Leonie Forbes Bulle Ogier
wife husband tourist detective hit woman dreamy eerie tense seattle jamaica hotel taxicab café alternate reality dreams rape contract killing honeymoon identity fantasy vs. reality
Traumatised rape victim Jessie (Anne Parillaud) is living a double life as a cool assassin on a mission and as a paranoid bride on her honeymoon.
Drama
2001
119 Minutes
Director
Laetitia Casta Frédéric Diefenthal Arielle Dombasle John Malkovich Charles Berling Johan Leysen Christian Vadim Carlos López Monique Melinand Édith Scob Jacqueline Staup
husband wife blacksmith wealthy woman friend server intense melodramatic passionate france inn estate countryside pregnancy financial troubles friendship wealth marriage legal problems mystery
In 1882 a generous Frenchwoman (Arielle Dombasle) shares her home with a peasant couple (Laetitia Casta, Frédéric Diefenthal) who are expecting a child.
Fantasy, Drama, Horror
1983
111 Minutes
Director
Hugues Quester Anne Alvaro Melvil Poupaud Andre Engel André Gomes Clarisse Dole João Bénard da Costa
A melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates, and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Drama, History
2010
266 Minutes
Director
João Arrais Adriano Luz Maria João Bastos Ricardo Pereira José Afonso Pimentel Albano Jerónimo João Baptista Clotilde Hesme Rui Morrison José Manuel Mendes Carloto Cotta
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1989
87 Minutes
Nanni Moretti Mariella Valentini Silvio Orlando Alfonso Santagata Claudio Morganti Asia Argento Eugenio Masciari Mario Patane Antonio Petrocelli Remo Remotti Fabio Traversa
Because of an accident, Michele (a leader of P.C.I. and a water-polo player) loses his memory. During one water-polo match, strange guys torment him; they want him to remember his past. As ... See full summary »