José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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

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

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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 surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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

3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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