José Carlos Ruiz Movies

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

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...

Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers...

Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived....

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...

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...

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.