José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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

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

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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