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Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz

Director and writer, also producer and editor · Died August 19, 2011, aged 70 · Puerto Montt, Chile

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raúl Ruiz (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
July 25, 1941
Died
August 19, 2011 (aged 70)
From
Puerto Montt, Chile
Works as
Director and writer, also producer and editor
Titles
12 on MovieCove · 117 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 38 days to Oct 27Down 21% in 30 days

What are Raúl Ruiz's films like?

Across their 12 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Ideas.

Genres

Comedy3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 58th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Comedy movies
Drama3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 69th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies
Crime2 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 41st percentile
: browse their Crime movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
28%
Ideas
26%
Morality
13%
Society
10%
Power
9%
Survival
9%
Bonds
5%
Truth4 titles, browse their movies with this themeIdentity4 titles, browse their movies with this themeArt4 titles, browse their movies with this themeDeception4 titles, browse their movies with this themeMemory2 titles, browse their movies with this themeCommunity2 titles, browse their movies with this themeMortality2 titles, browse their movies with this themeIsolation2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 11 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Wry: How sincerely it treats its story and characters, from ironic to earnest. Browse their wry movies.
Tone · Sincerity
ironicearnest

A split, not a type: Ironic 4 · Wry 1 · Earnest 6

Heightened: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their heightened movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 8

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 4 · Charged 5 · Intense 2

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 2 · Shifting 7 · Whiplash 2

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 6 · Funny 0

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 8 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0

Full focus: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their full focus movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 1 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 7

Ambiguous: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their ambiguous movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 8

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Contemplative
11
Tense
6
Melancholic
4
Absurd
3
Cold
2
Other
5

How their films linger

Thought-provoking10 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteUnsettling7 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 3 with a twist

  • Bittersweet2
  • Tragic1
  • Ambiguous9

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Raúl Ruiz's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).

Subscription and free streaming for Raúl Ruiz's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

117 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page; 11 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Socialist Realism (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

  • The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Director · Casting · Production Design · Screenplay

  • Inner Sage / Outer King (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Actor

  • The Wandering Soap Opera (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Director · Producer · Screenplay

  • What Now? Remind Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

    as (archive footage)

  • Blind Revenge(2009)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films

  • Night Across the Street(2012)

    Director · Editor · Writer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films

  • Ballet aquatique (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director · Writer · Actor

  • Epistolar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

    Director · Writer · as Don Fernando (voice)

  • Mysteries of Lisbon(2011)

    Show 6 episodes · Director · Creator

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows

  • Mysteries of Lisbon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Director

  • Nucingen House (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

    Director · Production Design · Screenplay

  • Secrets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Writer

  • The Suitcase (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Director · Editor · Writer

  • Litoral (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

    Show 4 episodes · Director · Creator · Writer

  • To Each His Own Cinema(2007)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • La Recta Provincia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Director · Writer

  • La Recta Provincia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Show 4 episodes · Director · Writer

  • Klimt(2006)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films

  • The Lost Domain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)

    Director · Writer

  • Days in the Country (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Edipo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

    Director

  • Vertige de la page blanche (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Director · Writer

  • A Place Among the Living (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Director · Writer

  • That Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Director · Writer

  • Médée: Chronique d’une mise en scène (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

    Director

  • Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Director · Cinematographer · Editor · Producer · Writer · as Narrator

  • Miotte by Ruiz (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)

    Director

  • Savage Souls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

    Director

  • Love Torn in a Dream (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Comedy of Innocence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

    Director · Writer

  • Marcel Proust's Time Regained(1999)

    Director · Scenario Writer

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films

  • Shattered Image(1998)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all films

  • L'Inconnu de Strasbourg (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

    Writer

  • The Film to Come (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Director · Writer

  • Genealogies of a Crime(1997)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Elle (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Screenplay

  • Three Lives and Only One Death (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)

    Director · Writer

  • Concerning Nice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director

  • Fado, Major and Minor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director · Writer

  • Wind Water (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)

    Director · Writer

  • Chapter 66 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Director · Writer

  • The Clandestine Journey: Lives of Saints and Sinners (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Mirror of Tunisia/Tunisia, the Trance and the Stone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

    Director

  • Little White Dove (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Dark at Noon(1992)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • The Solitudes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Director · as Narrator

  • Amelia Lópes O'Neill (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Adaptation · Writer

  • Visions and Marvels of the Christian Religion (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Director · Writer

  • Three Crowns of the Sailor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Director · Writer · as Small Role (uncredited)

  • The Golden Boat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Director · Writer

  • A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Director

  • El arte de poner los cuernos (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Producer

  • L'Exote (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

    Director

  • Brise-glace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)

    Director · Writer

  • L'Autel de l'amitié (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Director

  • Palombella rossa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    as Santone di Simone

  • Derrière le Mur (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Director

  • Earthen Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

    Writer

  • Tous les nuages sont des horloges (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)

    Director · Screenplay

  • The Blind Owl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Director · Writer

  • Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Director · Writer

  • Dog's Dialogue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Director · Writer · as (uncredited)

  • Life Is a Dream (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Director · Writer

  • Professor Taranne (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

    Director · Writer

  • Mammame (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)

    Director · Writer

  • Dans un miroir (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)

    Director · Writer

  • Richard III (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)

    Director

  • Treasure Island(1986)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films

  • The Insomniac on the Bridge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    Director · Screenplay

  • The Castaways of Liguria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    as Marinero

  • Régime sans pain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    Director · Writer

  • Notre mariage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    Screenplay

  • Screen Pioneers No:3 Raul Ruiz (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

    Actor

  • 7 False Connections (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director · as Self

  • Manoel’s Destinies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director · Writer

  • Voyage of a Hand (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director

  • The Real Presence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director

  • Vanishing Point (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director · Screenplay

  • City of Pirates (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Manuel on the Island of Wonders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

    Show 3 episodes · Director · Creator

  • Bérénice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)

    Director · Writer

  • The Return of a Library Lover (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1983)

    Director

  • Cinématon XXIII (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    as N°228

  • Querelle de jardins (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    Director

  • On Top of the Whale (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    Director · Writer

  • Chinese Shadows (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)

    Director · Screenplay

  • The Territory (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    Director

  • Image de sable (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    Director

  • Snakes and Ladders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Director · Writer

  • Pages d'un catalogue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Director

  • Of Great Events and Ordinary People (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Director · Writer

  • The New City (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Director

  • The One-Eyed Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

    Director · Writer

  • Petit manuel d'histoire de France (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)

    Director

  • Images de débats (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)

    Director

  • Le Mal du pays (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)

    Editor

  • The Suspended Vocation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Director · Screenplay

  • L'hypothèse du tableau volé(1978)

    Director · Writer

    Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films

  • Dora and the Magic Lantern (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Scenario Writer

  • The Divisions of Nature (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)

    Director

  • The Sorceror's Apprentice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)

    as Chilean refugee

  • Chuquiago (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)

    Actor

  • Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)

    Director · Writer

  • Sotelo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)

    Director

  • Dialogues of the Exiles (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)

    Director · Production Director · Screenplay

  • La Femme au foyer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)

    Screenplay

  • La expropiación(1974)

    Director · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • La Victoria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)

    Actor

  • Abastecimiento (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)

    Director

  • What Is to Be Done? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1972)

    Director

  • Nobody Said Anything (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)

    Director · Writer

  • Now We're Going to Call You Brother (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)

    Director

  • The Penal Colony (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)

    Director · Writer

  • Three Sad Tigers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1968)

    Director · Writer

  • Dali (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

  • Déclaration d'intention. Une émission sur Oyvind Fahlstrom (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Director

Career shape

A full career of 117 titles, 115 of them dated from 1968 to 2023.

Biggest box office

Klimt (2006)

$585K worldwide

Highest rated

L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)

Midcredits 89th

Most popular right now

Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)

Film career

  • 1987Screen debut· Dog's Dialogue

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting15 of 117: 9 only acting, 6 with another roleDirecting98 of 117: 33 only directing, 65 with another role · typical Midcredits score56thWriting70 of 117: 8 only writing, 62 with another role · typical Midcredits score57thProducing5 of 117: 1 only producing, 4 with another roleCinematography1 of 117: 0 only cinematography, 1 with another roleEditing4 of 117: 1 only editing, 3 with another roleOther crew6 of 117: 0 only other crew, 6 with another role

117 titles, 65 with more than one role — directing and writing overlap on 62 of them.

By decade

1960s1 · crew1970s20 · 3 acting · 17 crew1980s39 · 5 acting · 35 crew1990s24 · 2 acting · 24 crew2000s20 · 1 acting · 20 crew2010s9 · 4 acting · 7 crew2020s2 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Raúl Ruiz's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 56th percentile, the median of all 11; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 63rd percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

63rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Approval · how many liked their films

52ndpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Reach · how many have seen their films

50thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Midcredits score across 12 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up1
  • 50th to 74th8
  • Below 25th3

Shape of the crowd

6 of their 12 titles are Mixed.

  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser5
  • Mixed6

Most divisive · director, writer

Dark at Noon (1992)

72nd percentile spread · 18% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · director, writer

L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)

Midcredits 89th · 74% liked

Reviewers score the atmosphere 70/100 and the pacing 37/100 in their films, across 9 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Raúl Ruiz work with?

People who share at least 2 of Raúl Ruiz's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Jorge Arriagada shares the most, 9.

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers