Genealogies of a Crime is a 1997 French-Portuguese surrealist film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. Despite being released in 1997, the film was not released on DVD until 2005. Since, it has been included in multiple DVD anthologies of Ruiz’s works.

Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.