José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

Fantasy-life of an upper-class girl overwhelmed with spiritual questions.

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

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 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...

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

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

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...

Mexican feature film

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

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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...

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

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,...