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José Carlos Ruiz

José Carlos Ruiz

José Carlos Ruiz (born November 17, 1936) is a Mexican film and television actor, born in the City of Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico. He has starred in telenovelas, such as María Isabel, Soñadoras, Mariana de la noche, Sortilegio, Soy Tu Dueña, A Shelter for the Love, Amor Bravío and Corazon Indomable.

He comes from humble origins and was once a hired hand for the company Luz y Fuerza. He worked as an assistant coffee mill worker, a butcher, and also an interior decorator, until he began his acting studies at Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts.

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CARNAL (2021)

Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion about what happened in the dinner, Camila's boyfriend searches for her without success after her disappearan ...

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Tell Me When (2020)

After his grandfather's death, a young man decides to fulfill his elder's last wish with the help of his new friends. The problem starts when he falls in love with a female friend who may not feel the same. ...

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Tigers (2020)

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

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Stormmaker (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. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a daily basi ...

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Warehoused (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. ...

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One for the Road (2015)

Three octogenarians set out on a trip in order to fulfill the dying wish of a lifelong friend, in spite of the disapproval of their families and the limitations of their advanced age. Along the way, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic mis ...

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El lado oscuro de la luz (2013)

Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. The murderer justified his crimes stating he was chosen by God to fulfill the desire for liberation and deat ...

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Suave Patria (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. Thanks to this performance are "hired" by Mr. Mauricio Tavares to play a practical joke on dangerous ...

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Crossing the Desert (2012)

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 conventional life with a family that knows and complains about his constant infidelities. When the woman is ...

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El estudiante (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. ...

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Buddah's Head (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 . His life starts to change , forcing him to confront this crime and discover the ...

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Morenita, El Escandalo (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. ...

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Más allá del muro (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. In spite of their differences in age and per ...

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Tear This Heart Out (2008)

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of pos ...

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Cruz de navajas (2008)

A few crooks escape prison during a transfer of criminals and decide to hide in a church where they pretend to be priests. Ironically, they never suspected that the true priests dedicated themselves to trafficking with sculptures from the church and thus b ...

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El Garabato (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. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver ...

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Guadalupe (2006)

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 ordinary man living near the hill of Tepeyac, witnessed in December 1531. ...

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Curandero (2005)

A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City ...

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The Miracle (2003)

A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham. ...

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Las perversiones del padre José (2003)

Father Jose hides under the cassock the lowest instincts a man can have, where lust seizes his being and commits unforgivable sins by raping a young nun with a true vocation to serve God, causing death by infecting her with AIDS. ...

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Snake Skin (2002)

After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist initiates a criminal process within a corrupt and ineffective justice system that turns her life into a n ...

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His Most Serene Highness (2000)

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 cost his nation half of its territory ...

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Reclusorio III (1999)

3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive. ...

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Jasmine blossoms (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. The two men engage into a conversation about life, love and family while sharing a song: "De jazmín en flor". ...

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Two Crimes (1995)

After being falsely accused of a murder, Marcos runs away to the small and quiet town of Cuevano. There he finds that the family matters are more complicated than his. ...

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Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III) (1994)

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

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The Cage of Death (1990)

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

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Honeymoon Academy (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. HE thinks she's a retired travel agent. ...

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Hope (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. ...

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The Wrath of a God (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. ...

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Reto a la vida (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. Carlos starts working to cure his brother when he befriends a street kid and falls for so ...

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Intriga contra México (1988)

An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President. ...

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Zapata en Chinameca (1987)

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

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La mujer policía (1987)

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Contrabando y muerte (1986)

A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers. ...

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Astucia (1986)

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

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The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell (1986)

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

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Salvador (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. ...

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Three of Cups (1986)

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

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Robachicos (1986)

One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City. ...

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Wandering Lives (1985)

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

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Viaje al paraíso (1985)

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

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Violent Stories (1985)

Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film. ...

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Masacre en el río Tula (1985)

Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze. ...

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Toña Machetes (1985)

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

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El Mil Usos II (1984)

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

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Luna de sangre (1984)

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Mundo mágico (1983)

Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance. ...

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Under the Shrapnel (1983)

A guerrilla commando tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt, several policemen and a guerrillero die. By chance the head of the kidnappers meets an old colleague; to prevent him from betraying them, he kidnaps him. ...

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Fuego en el mar (1981)

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 on him while he is away. Therefore, time and again he asks her to stop working and get pregnant for the se ...

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Oficio de tinieblas (1981)

"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ending the exploitation of their workers. O ...

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El mil usos (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. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters. ...

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Caboblanco (1980)

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 explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police ...

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Eagle's Wing (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. ...

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The Holy War (1979)

Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal government and Catholic believers, fought a bloody struggle. Time passes and the Church and the State agree ...

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Cananea (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. ...

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Who'll Stop the Rain (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. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade croo ...

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The Children of Sanchez (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. Anthony Quinn stars as the widowed Jesus Sanchez, a poor farmer struggling to pr ...

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The Year of the Plague (1978)

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic ...

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Rattlesnake (1977)

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 conditions of this indigenous community, his social conscience forces him to confront his superiors, who t ...

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El elegido (1977)

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

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The Bricklayers (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. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought ...

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The Heist (1976)

In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the ...

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The House in the South (1976)

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

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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra! (1976)

Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, s ...

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Letters from Marusia (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. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible ...

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Simon Blanco (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. The cacique Onesimo and his brother, the commissioner Martial put ambushes but he ...

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Los perros de Dios (1974)

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

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La muerte de Pancho Villa (1974)

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

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Buck and the Preacher (1972)

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West. ...

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They Call Him Marcado (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. The town's resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, ...

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Emiliano Zapata (1970)

This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution. ...

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The Scapular (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. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead. ...

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Black Wind (1965)

The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that ...

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Major Dundee (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.S. bases in Texas. ...

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