José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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...

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...

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

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.

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

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...

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

An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.

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...

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

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

Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.

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

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

Mexican feature film

A house is to be demolished to make a parking lot. In the process, the children of an orphanage and the old people of an asylum, both neighbors of...