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José Carlos Ruiz (born November 17th, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actor, born in the City of Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
His first film intervention is in the film Black Wind, which deals with a tragedy that occurred in the Altar Desert, in Sonora, Mexico, where he acted alongside David Reynoso, Fernando Luján, etc. filmed in 1965.
Later (1966) he filmed The Scapular, a prestigious film in which he acted alongside Enrique Lizalde, Ofelia Guilmáin, Alicia Bonet, Carlos Cardán and the late Enrique Aguilar, among other actors.
It appears in the historical recreation of a tragic episode that happened in the Republic of Chile, in the tape, Actas de Marusia, which narrates the drama of a bloody crushing of a mining strike in that country. The film is important for the prominent actors who participate in it: Alejandro Parodi, Diana Bracho, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Eduardo López Rojas, Salvador Sánchez, Gian María Volanté, among others, but also, by the then very recent military coup led by the General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.
In 1976, he appeared in El Apando, a film in which he played a drug addict locked up in the Black Palace or Lecumberri Prison, which is the complaint made by the political express and now disappeared José Revueltas regarding the Mexican prison system, seen from his confinement as a prisoner of conscience in that prison.
Under the Shrapnel is a film filmed in 1983, which deals with the issue of the Guerrilla and where this actor plays an infiltrator who finally turns out to be a police officer; Two years later he would film Massacre in the Tula River, where he plays a Colombian guerrilla and trafficker, and which refers to a real-life case that happened in Mexico City, allegedly victimized by police officers.
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31 March 1988
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 psychiatric hospital.
01 January 1999
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
15 December 2023
The Mendoza family gathers yearly for Posada. Diego's girlfriend Caro hosts this year. Secrets and cultural clashes emerge, making Caro reconsider joining the Mendoza family.
01 January 1988
An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
01 January 1986
One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
04 February 1976
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna.
01 January 1994
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
14 August 2009
After retiring to the beautiful Mexican town of Guanajuato, a 70 year old decides to follow his dreams and enroll at the university where he stumbles upon a new generation and they are bound together by the novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.
15 February 1987
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
23 December 1976
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself.
01 March 2009
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
29 August 1985
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
10 November 2015
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 apparently nothing ever happens.
01 May 1974
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
05 August 1976
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers.
13 January 1977
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
08 September 1985
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
07 September 2012
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 police.
14 November 1984
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
15 March 1965
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.
23 January 1980
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies.
31 January 1985
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
17 June 1976
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
25 December 1971
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 father to boot.
23 April 1986
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
26 December 1975
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 essential rights.
17 March 1972
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
07 October 1987
The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.
02 August 1978
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife.
16 April 1975
In 1909, former judge Cristóbal Zamarripa owns Valle Nacional, a tobacco plantation where he exploits workers with the support of the tyrant Porfirio Díaz, who sends him political prisoners as slaves.
17 May 2009
Tomás, a famous and egocentric actor, buying a Buddha head in Lagunilla . In an attempt to avoid being robbed, the thief accidentally kills in self-defense , with the relic .
16 March 1975
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girlfriend in his hometown.
18 January 1968
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.
01 December 1989
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dirty jobs' department, but her superiors have other ideas.
04 December 1986
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
10 November 1988
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 his sister, the degrading treatment to their partners and so on.
18 May 2012
Victor, a successful and well-respected businessman, is obsessed by the legend that an indigenous woman told him when he was a child.
30 November 1988
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 country, totally unknown to him but that will bring him a new life.
28 October 2003
A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.
11 January 2008
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow.
29 January 1985
Thousands of peasants are kidnapped by the mafia and are forced to work in marijuana fields. Facing violence, death, & desperately fighting for their lives.
04 January 1986
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
04 September 2021
Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple.
01 January 2009
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 the house, invade it secretly searching for a new place to stay.
23 February 1984
Mexican feature film
08 January 1987
Two traveling projectionists tour the villages of the mountains showing films in order to save money and build their own theater.
19 September 1974
After a near-drowning, Laura moves through four social worlds under different names, obsessed with God’s infinite mercy and provoking sin to test forgiveness.
02 March 2017
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, spirits that materialize before him as his real family.
01 January 1987
Mexican feature film
17 August 1978
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 exploited for their labour.
25 December 2020
After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends.
15 November 2020
A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
24 November 1996
Luis is attempting suicide from the top level of a construction building when he is interrupted by Don Ramón who also wants to kill himself.
26 April 1981
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck.
26 July 1979
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
04 June 1981
Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform.
16 June 1978
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written by Oscar Lewis in the '60s.
