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...

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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