José Carlos Ruiz Movies

A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.

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 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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles...

3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.

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

The Mexican painter Francisco Goitia, feeling his death approaching, manages to make a memory of his life: the reunion with his country and his...