Name: City of Pirates
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Released: 1983
Cast: Anne Alvaro, Hugues Quester, Melvil Poupaud

Anne Alvaro

Hugues Quester

Melvil Poupaud

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

City of Pirates

Agnès Jaoui

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Alain Chabat

Gérard Lanvin

Brigitte Catillon

Christiane Millet

Wladimir Yordanoff

Anne Le Ny

Raphaël Defour

Xavier de Guillebon

Céline Arnaud

Robert Bacri

Sam Karmann

Marie-Agnès Brigot

The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.

France, Generation 90

The Taste of Others

Français

VF - HD

VF - SD

Jean-Bernard Guillard

Jean Badin

Franck Oger

Claude Derepp

Clarisse Daull

A lush, baroque adaptation of Jean Racine&#x27;s 1670 tragedy about a Roman emperor who bends to popular will and declines to marry the Palestinian queen he loves.

Raoul Ruiz

La Cinémathèque française

Hidden Treasures

Home

Bérénice

Gérard Depardieu

Jacques Villeret

Roland Blanche

Krzysztof Globisz

Wojciech Pszoniak

Patrice Chéreau

Emmanuelle Debever

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.

Danton

french - SME

Jean-Paul Roussillon

Hippolyte Girardot

Emmanuelle Devos

Mathieu Amalric

Chiara Mastroianni

Anne Consigny

Catherine Deneuve

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

A Christmas Tale

FR - HD 

Léa Seydoux

Clotilde Hesme

Ricardo Pereira

Maria João Bastos

José Afonso Pimentel

Adriano Luz

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Mysteries of Lisbon

Mistérios de Lisboa

french

VOST - HD

Jeanne Moreau

Marie Rivière

Daniel Duval

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.

Time to Leave

FR - HD - SND

Marisa Paredes

Feodor Atkine

Arielle Dombasle

Anna Galiena

Guillaume de Tonquédec

Marcello Mastroianni

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.

Three Lives and Only One Death

Trois Vies et Une Seule Mort

FR+FRAD - HD

Marc Citti

Sandrine Kiberlain

Claire Laroche

Frédéric Diefenthal

After hitting her head, a woman has to face living in a mental institution for a period of time.

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

FR - SD

Monia Chokri

Susie Almgren

Nathalie Baye

Suzanne Clément

A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman&#x27;s relationship with her lover.

Laurence Anyways

Eva Simonet

Silke Humel

Frank Lesne

Marie-Christine Poisot	

Hugo Santiago

Geneviève Such

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jet&eacute;e-like series of stills.

Dog's Dialogue

Freebox - VF - SD

Freebox - VF - HD

Emmanuelle Béart

John Malkovich

Edith Scob

Christian Vadim

Vincent Perez

Elsa Zylberstein

Pascal Greggory

Marcello Mazzarella

Marie-France Pisier

Raoul Ruiz à propos de son film Le Temps retrouvé

Le Cercle

Lettre de cinéaste Raoul Ruiz

Cinéma cinémas

Catherine Deneuve en génériques

Blow up - ARTE

Quand Catherine Deneuve rencontre Alfred Hitchcock

Le Cercle - 11 mai 1999 - Raoul Ruiz à propos de son film Le Temps retrouvé

Cinéma cinémas 06/04/1983 : Lettre de cinéaste Raoul Ruiz

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust&#x27;s memory lane.

Time Regained

Françoise Arnoul

Daniel Gélin

Sergio Hernández

Huguette Faget

Carla Cristi

Carlos Solanos

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.

Dialogues of Exiles

Diálogos de exiliados

Spanish

VOST - SD

Jean Narboni

Jean Rougeul

Gabriel Gascon

Christian Broutin

Bruno Guillain

Jean Reno

Raul Ruiz à propos entre autres de L'Hypothèse du tableau volé

Le cinéma des cinéastes

Le cinéma des cinéastes 02/05/1979 : Raul Ruiz à propos entre autres de L'Hypothèse du tableau volé

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&#x27; significance.

Trois fois Ruiz

L'INA

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting

Shenda Román

Nelson Villagra

Luis Alarcón

Jaime Vadell

Delfina Guzmán

Fernando Colina

The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile&#x27;s capital city build inexorably to violence.

Nouveaux cinémas

Three Sad Tigers

Tres Tristes Tigres

Philippe Deplanche

Nadège Clair

Lisa Lyon

Frank Oger

François Ede

A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.

Three Crowns of the Sailor

Jean-François Lapalus

Jessica Forde

Jean-Marie Boëglin

The Narrator, an Arab immigrant about 35 years, H., is in an old cinema projectionist. One day, attracted by music, he looks through the window and sees what fascinates him: the dancer in the film catches his eye.

The Blind Owl

Beatriz Lapido

Rodrigo Ureta

Mónica Díaz

Manuel Aranguiz

Ruiz deconstructs, satirizes and politicizes a rich-boy/poor-girl romance bestseller which had been dubbed &#x27;the Chilean &quot;Love Story&quot;&#x27;.

Palomita Blanca

Maurice Bénichou

Didier Flamand

Pascal Bonitzer

Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.

The Suspended Vocation

VF - HD - INA

Jean Baudrillard

A cin&eacute;ma v&eacute;rit&eacute; documentary about the elections in Paris which reflexively inverts in on itself.

Of Great Events and Ordinary People

Louis Castel

Christian Rist

Camila Mora-Scheihing

Catherine Oudin

Jean-Loup Rivière

Festival of Avignon, 1983. Adam, an unemployed actor, wanders between fiction and reality in search of himself.&nbsp;

In this fiction with a surrealist undertone, Raoul Ruiz turns a commissioned work about &quot;his vision of the Avignon Festival&quot; into a personal and powerful reflection on theatre.

The Real Presence

La présence réelle

Freebox - VOST - HD

Nastassja Kinski

Harry Dean Stanton

Dean Stockwell

Aurore Clément

Texas, near the Mexican border - a man who came from nowhere wanders through the desert - he has no identification papers and refuses to speak, but a credit card belonging to his brother reveals his identity. The latter decides to get him back to Los Angeles.

Paris, Texas

City of Pirates

La fiche film

Générique

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