José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Mexican feature film

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

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