José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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

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

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...

When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances...

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

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...

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government...

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

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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,...

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

Mexican feature film

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

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...

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...

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...