José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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...

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea...

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

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...

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

The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and cultural clashes emerge, making Caro reconsider...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Mariano works as chief driller on an oil platform in Campeche 14 days a month. However, he is obsessed with the idea that his wife Gloria is cheating...

Based on the corrido of Valentín de la Sierra, one of the revolutionary leaders who forged the armed struggle in Mexican history. The abuses...

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

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

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