
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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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 which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation." His most notable works include El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), all of which have had limited release but achieved popularity amongst various countercultural groups. He has cited the filmmaker Federico Fellini as his primary cinematic influence, and has been described as an influence on such figures as Marilyn Manson and David Lynch. After a failed attempt to return to filmmaking with a film entitled King Shot starring Marilyn Manson and produced by David Lynch, Alejandro is set to return to cinema with the sequel to El Topo entitled Abel Cain sometime in late 2011 or 2012.
Jodorowsky is also a playwright and play director, having produced over one hundred plays, primarily in Mexico where he lived for much of his life. Alongside this he is also a writer, particularly of comic books - his The Incal even has been noted as having a claim to be "the best comic book" ever written - as well as books on his own theories about spirituality. Jodorowsky has been involved in the occult and various spiritual and religious groups, including Zen Buddhism and forms of Mexican shamanism, and has formulated his own spiritual system, which he has called "psychomagic" and "psychoshamanism".
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.025 |
Birthday | 1929-02-17 |
Place of Birth | Tocopilla, Chile |
Also Known As | Alexandro Jodorowsky, Alexandre Jodorowski, 알레한드로 호도로프스키, 알레한드로 조도로프스키, 알레한도로 호도로프스키, 알레한도로 조도로프스키, 亚历山大·尤杜洛斯基, |

1973

The Holy Mountain
7.6/918
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1970

El Topo
7.1/597
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1957

The Severed Heads
6.1/52
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie w...
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2006

Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
6.3/84
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream

1997

Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales
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These are initiation tales of A. Jodorowsky, tales and legends adapted from ancestral traditions, from all continents, and drawing their source from t...
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1994

The Jodorowsky Constellation
6.2/17
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2003

No Big Deal
4.6/7
Three sons are sent on a journey to trace their father's checkered past.
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La Voz Eterna
0/0
The final entry in Jodorowsky's autobiographical trilogy.
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2006

Musikanten
7.5/2
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2011

The Island
5/10
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2007

In Search of Moebius
10/1
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2013

The Dance of Reality
7.2/190
“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...
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2013

Jodorowsky's Dune
7.817/682
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2013

Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
4.9/9
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2007

Arrabal, Panik Cineast
0/0
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2012

NWR
7.3/14
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1965

Melodrama Sacramental
5.9/10
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2022

Tripping The Dark Fantastic
0/0
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2002

Psicotaxi
4.3/3
Fresnadillo wheel an impromptu consultation with Alejandro Jodorowsky, while driving in a taxi in the streets of Paris.
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Psicotaxi

2015

My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
6.4/54
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The Family Forest
0/0
Epigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.
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2007

Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures
6.556/9
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Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot
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2016

Endless Poetry
7.5/186
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...
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2016

Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls
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Alejandro Jodorowsky feeds a flock of seagulls.
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2014

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic
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1969

Anticlimax
5.3/7
The Mexican Gelsen Gas side by side with Alexandro Jodorowsky (Fando y Lis, El Topo, The Holy Mountain and others) appeared as a theater director, art...
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2002

Cherif
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2011

Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre
7/1
After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with hi...
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1997

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
0/0
This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-L...
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2008

La colorina
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Portrait of the Chilean poet Stella Díaz Varín (1926 -2006), who was called “La colorina” because of her red hair. Anarchist, communist, agitator, box...
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1965

He! Viva Dada
0/0
Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings...
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2008

Born Without
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2024

Helicopter
0.5/1
To heal the wounds of his family and spirit, Director Ari Gold goes on an epic two year journey to complete a "Psychomagic assignment" given to him by...
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Helicopter

2017

Violeta más viva que nunca
0/0
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Violeta más viva que nunca

2007

A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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2003

Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002
0/0
The footage is recorder in ICA, London, in December 2002 and features Jodorowsky on-stage after the screening of "Santa Sangre".
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2007

Niente è come sembra
6.8/2
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1970

Fando and Lis
6.8/136
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrab...
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2019

Psychomagic: A Healing Art
6/29
Explores the therapeutic work of director Alejandro Jodorowsky, showing by means of real acts, what Psychomagic is, its principle, how it is practiced...
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2002

Blink Jodorowsky
0/0
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2021

Fake News
4/100
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2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
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2007

Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky
0/0
Part behind-the-scenes interview, part lecture. DVD included with Jodorowsky's book Los Evangelios para Sanar.
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2025

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
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