Películas de José Carlos Ruiz

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing...

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his...

The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his...

Oscar and Arthur are two actors without fortune who survive unemployment with a routine street, where one represents the thief and the other to the...

A few crooks escape prison during a transfer of criminals and decide to hide in a church where they pretend to be priests. Ironically, they never...

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out...

A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers...

Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice,...

On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with...

Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the...

Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself....

After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more...

Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived....

Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.

Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal...

This historical drama depicts the waning days of the life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who waged a war against the United States that ultimately...

Jose Maria and his sister Mercedes are archaeologists who have been given a grant to study the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whom Juan Diego, an...

Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.

An employee about to retire and the young man who is to take over, share five journeys in the work place, an enormous empty warehouse where...

At only 19 years old, Vladimir Olhosvky, fleeing the Russian Revolution and going into exile in Mexico City, will have to make his way in a new...

A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of...

John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs...

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have,...

An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.

Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating...

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him...

The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And...

Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.

"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The...

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.

3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.

Mexican feature film

A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new...

Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a...

After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he...

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

Based on a true story in the American owned Cananea mine. It depicts how the owner profits while the Mexican workers struggle to survive and are...

A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.

A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government...

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not...

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea...

Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child. Victor lives a...

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...

A filmmaker is commissioned to film a documentary on the social reality of the Lacandon people in the state of Chiapas. As he enters the harsh living...

While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.

Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for...

After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles...

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.

The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida,...

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on...

Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing...

After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion...

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother...

Mexican feature film

Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.

Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the...

A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.

Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in...

A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico,...