In the 1990s, Ruiz began working with larger budgets and "name" stars like John Hurt in "Dark at Noon" (1992) and Marcello Mastroianni in "Three Lives and Only One Death" (1996). The following year, he made "Genealogies of a Crime" starring Catherine Deneuve, winning the Silver Bear at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. A second major French actress, Isabelle Huppert, worked with Ruiz on "Comedy of Innocence" (2000), which was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The American John Malkovich acted in the star-studded Marcel Proust adaptation "Time Regained" (1999) and the somewhat less successful "Savage Souls" (2001) and "Klimt" (2006). "That Day" (2003) was the fourth and last Ruiz film to be shown in the main competition of the Cannes Film festival. He also made forays into the English-language mainstream with the thrillers "Shattered Image" (1998) and "A Closed Book" (2010). In the final decade of his life, Ruiz wrote and directed several low-budget productions in his native Chile, but his final international success was the Franco-Portuguese epic "Mysteries of Lisbon" (2010).