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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Director 97 years old

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Tocopilla, Chile

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, composer and writer with a large cult following. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

9 titles
Psychomagic: A Healing Art

Psychomagic: A Healing Art

Alejandro Jodorowsky 2019 1h 44m

Explores the therapeutic work of director Alejandro Jodorowsky, showing by means of real acts, what Psychomagic is, its principle, how it is practiced, and how it is applied in life. Jodorowsky works directly with real, suffering people who are eager to solve their problems.

Poesía sin fin

Poesía sin fin

Alejandro Jodorowsky 2016 2h 8m 8.5

A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

La danza de la realidad

La danza de la realidad

Alejandro Jodorowsky 2013 2h 10m 8.0

'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life.

The Rainbow Thief

The Rainbow Thief

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1990 1h 27m 5.0

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.

Santa sangre

Santa sangre

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1989 2h 2m 8.7

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.

La montaña sagrada

La montaña sagrada

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1973 1h 53m 8.4

A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery...

El Topo

El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1970 2h 5m 8.4

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Fando y Lis

Fando y Lis

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1968 1h 37m 7.0

Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.

La cravate

La cravate

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert 1957 21m 7.0

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

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