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".

Filmography

• 2021Fake News — Mysterious man
• 2019Psychomagic: A Healing Art — Himself, Director, Book, Writer
• 2016Endless Poetry — Old Alejandro, Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Production Design
• 2013Only God Forgives — Thanks
• 2013Ritual - A Psychomagic Story — Fernando
• 2013The Dance of Reality — Old Alejandro, Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
• 2013The Source Family — Thanks
• 2013The Voice Thief — Story
• 2012Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez! — Original Story
• 2011Drive — Thanks
• 2011The Island — Jodo
• 2010A Tar
• 2008Born Without
• 2007A Conversation with Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 2007Niente è come sembra
• 2006Musikanten — Ludwig van Beethoven
• 2003Alejandro Jodorowsky: Interview at ICA London December 2002 — Director
• 2003Kaena: The Prophecy — Dialogue
• 2003No Big Deal — Pablo
• 2002Cherif — Prophet
• 1997Jodorowsky's Phylosophycal Tales — Alejandro
• 1994The Rainbow Thief — Director
• Eurotrash
• 1989Santa Sangre — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1980Tusk — Director, Screenplay
• 1978Pubertinaje — Producer
• 1973The Holy Mountain — The Alchemist, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Costume Design, Original Music Composer, Production Design, Painter, Sculptor, Set Designer
• 1972Apolinar — Producer
• 1972Fando and Lis — Puppeteer (uncredited), Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
• 1970El Topo — El Topo, Director, Original Music Composer, Production Design, Costume Design, Writer
• 1969Anticlimax
• 1965He! Viva Dada — Self, Writer
• 1965Melodrama Sacramental — Himself, Director
• 1957The Severed Heads — Director, Writer
• Bouncer — Story

Appearances as themselves (32)

• 2025John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office — Self
• 2025The Dark Fantastic — Self
• 2024Helicopter — Himself
• 2023What the Forest conceals — self
• Léemelo — Self
• 2022Tripping The Dark Fantastic — Himself
• 2017Violeta más viva que nunca — Himself (archive footage)
• 2016Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Seagulls — Himself
• 2015My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn — Self
• 2014Alejandro Jodorowsky's Social Psychomagic — Himself
• 2013Jodorowsky's Dune — Self - Writer / Filmmaker
• 2012NWR — Self
• 2011Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre — Himself
• 2008La colorina — Self
• 2007Arrabal, Panik Cineast — Self
• 2007Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures — Self
• 2007Una hora con Alejandro Jodorowsky — Self
• 2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream — Self
• Una belleza nueva — Self
• Le Cercle — Self
• 2004Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! — Self
• 2004Rush to War — Self
• 2002Blink Jodorowsky — Himself
• 2002Psicotaxi — Himself
• Through the Night with... — Self
• 1997Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths — Self
• De pé a pá — Self
• 1994The Jodorowsky Constellation — Self
• 1991Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Alejandro Jodorowsky - Conversations on the Way of the Tarot — himself
• The Family Forest — Himself