José Carlos Ruiz
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.934 |
| Birthday | 1936-11-17 |
| Place of Birth | Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Also Known As |
1986
Salvador
7/340
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military...
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Salvador
2006
Tribus Urbanas
5/1
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Tribus Urbanas
1971
They Call Him Marcado
4.4/8
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...
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They Call Him Marcado
1991
El extensionista
5.4/5
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El extensionista
1991
El extensionista
5.4/5
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El extensionista
1975
Simon Blanco
5.3/3
The peasant and revolutionary Zapatista Simon Blanco still in arms but Zapata is dead. Simon with his lieutenant Andres visits his mother and his girl...
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Simon Blanco
2007
24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
5/1
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24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
2012
Suave Patria
5.909/55
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 po...
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Suave Patria
2008
Cruz de navajas
5/1
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 susp...
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Cruz de navajas
1976
The Heist
6.5/20
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out an...
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The Heist
2005
Curandero
5.6/14
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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Curandero
1983
Under the Shrapnel
4.7/6
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...
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Under the Shrapnel
1985
Masacre en el río Tula
6.2/15
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, corrup...
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Masacre en el río Tula
1988
The Wrath of a God
4.7/6
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 h...
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The Wrath of a God
1995
Two Crimes
5.1/10
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 comp...
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Two Crimes
2015
One for the Road
7.5/44
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 l...
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One for the Road
1996
Jasmine blossoms
5.7/3
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 m...
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Jasmine blossoms
2013
Dark Side of the Light
5/2
Powerful psychological thriller based on the true story of a serial murderer, who for his crimes, was sentenced to the electric chair and survived. Th...
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Dark Side of the Light
1994
Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
5/2
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
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Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
1979
The Holy War
4.8/8
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 g...
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The Holy War
2000
His Most Serene Highness
6.2/6
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 co...
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His Most Serene Highness
2006
Guadalupe
5/6
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 ord...
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Guadalupe
1985
Wandering Lives
5.4/5
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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Wandering Lives
2015
Warehoused
7.2/19
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...
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Warehoused
1989
Goitia: A God for Himself
3.6/9
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Goitia: A God for Himself
1988
Hope
5.2/10
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 countr...
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Hope
2009
Más allá del muro
6.7/3
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...
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Más allá del muro
1978
Who'll Stop the Rain
6.466/59
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside...
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Who'll Stop the Rain
1965
Black Wind
7.8/20
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles be...
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Black Wind
2017
Stormmaker
4.1/7
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, spir...
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Stormmaker
1990
The Cage of Death
5/2
An old man makes a pact with the devil to once again see the woman he loves... his niece.
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The Cage of Death
1976
The Bricklayers
6.56/25
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surround...
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The Bricklayers
1987
Zapata en Chinameca
5.8/4
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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Zapata en Chinameca
1981
Fuego en el mar
5.4/7
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...
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Fuego en el mar
1978
The Year of the Plague
5.1/16
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...
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The Year of the Plague
1981
El mil usos
6.9/12
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...
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El mil usos
1984
El Mil Usos II
6.3/6
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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El Mil Usos II
1981
Oficio de tinieblas
4.8/5
"Occupation of Darkness" - Set in 1934, and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The la...
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Oficio de tinieblas
1983
Mundo mágico
4.8/4
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
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Mundo mágico
1968
Valentín de la Sierra
5.6/6
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Valentín de la Sierra
1977
El elegido
6.3/7
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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El elegido
1985
Violent Stories
5.7/7
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Violent Stories
1988
Intriga contra México
5/2
An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
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Intriga contra México
1999
Reclusorio III
5/2
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
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Reclusorio III
1984
Luna de sangre
6/5
Mexican feature film
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Luna de sangre
1986
Contrabando y muerte
5/4
A young man gets involved in the drug trade and is murdered. His father sets out to find the killers.
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Contrabando y muerte
2008
Tear This Heart Out
8.02/101
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 fem...
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Tear This Heart Out
1988
Reto a la vida
5/2
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 psych...
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Reto a la vida
2020
Tell Me When
6.5/55
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...
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Tell Me When
1978
The Children of Sanchez
5.7/6
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...
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The Children of Sanchez
1978
Cananea
5.6/5
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 explo...
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Cananea
1985
Toña Machetes
5/7
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
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Toña Machetes
1989
Honeymoon Academy
5.5/12
A honeymooning couple become entangled in a plot to recover plates for counterfeiting US dollars. SHE thinks she's just retired from a government 'dir...
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Honeymoon Academy
1975
El valle de los miserables
4.2/4
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El valle de los miserables
1993
Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
5/2
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Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
1968
The Scapular
8.2/33
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...
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The Scapular
1980
Cabo Blanco
5.3/31
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 ex...
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Cabo Blanco
2012
Crossing the Desert
4.4/5
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 c...
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Crossing the Desert
1975
Letters from Marusia
5.3/13
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 ess...
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Letters from Marusia
1989
A Christmas Carol
2/1
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A Christmas Carol
1977
Rattlesnake
5.3/5
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...
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Rattlesnake
2002
Benjamín
0/0
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Benjamín
1986
Three of Cups
5.5/6
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
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Three of Cups
1986
The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
4.5/4
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for con...
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The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
2009
El estudiante
7.623/57
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...
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El estudiante
1970
Emiliano Zapata
5.8/8
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Emiliano Zapata
2008
El Garabato
7.2/8
The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lea...
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El Garabato
1965
Major Dundee
6.7/150
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...
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Major Dundee
1985
Operacion marihuana
5/2
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Operacion marihuana
2009
Morenita, El Escandalo
5.6/8
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 p...
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Morenita, El Escandalo
1984
Noche de carnaval
6.6/5
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Noche de carnaval
1974
La muerte de Pancho Villa
5/4
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
1972
Buck and the Preacher
6.153/49
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Buck and the Preacher
2021
CARNAL
0/0
Olivia confesses to a priest that she accepted a dinner invitation from a sophisticated and artistic couple. While Olivia feels a complex confusion ab...
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CARNAL
1976
Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
5.3/9
Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother a...
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
1987
La mujer policía
4/3
Mexican feature film
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La mujer policía
1985
Viaje al paraíso
4/5
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Viaje al paraíso
1986
Robachicos
5/2
One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
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Robachicos
1986
Astucia
5/4
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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Astucia
2002
Snake Skin
5/2
After returning from a trip, a young dentist discovers that her home has been ransacked. Determined to recover part of her belongings, the protagonist...
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Snake Skin
2003
The Miracle
0/0
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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The Miracle
2009
Buddah's Head
3.7/3
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-de...
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Buddah's Head
2020
Tigers
0/0
A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
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Tigers
1979
Eagle's Wing
5.2/20
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, meetin...
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