Ángeles Cruz

Ángeles Cruz


in Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco
Ángeles Cruz is a Mexican actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. Originally from La Mixteca area in Oaxaca, she has a degree in acting from the School of Theater Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She has participated as an actress in more than a dozen national and international feature films with directors such as Ignacio Ortiz, Jorge Pérez Solano and Francisco Vargas among others. Her work in "Tamara y la Catarina" of Lucía Carreras, earned her the "Colón de Plata" as Best Actress awarded by the "Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva" 2017 and was "Nominated for Ariel" for best female performance in 2018. It was "Nominated for the Golden Beetle" as Best Actress by the Swedish Film Academy for her work in the film "La hija del puma"(Ulf Hulberg, 1994) and in 2000 for Ariel as best female co-acting for the film "Rito Terminal" (Óscar Urrutia, 2000). Her work as a screenwriter and director has produced three award-winning short films: "La tiricia or como curar la tristeza", "La carta" and "Arcángel". Her first feature film "Nudo mixteco" will be released soon.

Movies for Ángeles Cruz...

The Woman of Stars and Mountains
Title: The Woman of Stars and Mountains
Character: Young Rita
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece, and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. A moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, questioning the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.
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Broken Borders
Title: Broken Borders
Character: Gabriela
Released: December 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Renato, Abel & Gabriela are a family torn apart by their emotions. For them, the longing for happiness and breaking free from their harsh realities seems punishable. Their individual choices will take its toll on the lives of others, bringing forth the fragile ties that bind them.
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Familia
Title: Familia
Character: Teresa
Released: November 27, 2023
Type: Movie
As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.
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Subterránea
Title: Subterránea
Released: November 11, 2022
Type: Movie
A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers.
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Medusa
Title: Medusa
Character: Nora
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
When teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her in three videos what happened in her absence between her beloved husband and who impersonated her.
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Finlandia
Title: Finlandia
Character: Sara
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
A devastating earthquake hits Oaxaca and causes hundreds to fall victims to its effects. The drastic physical effects are felt in Mexico while across the globe its emotional effects are felt in Finland. This seismic movement has caused an emotional tremor in the lives of the Muxes.
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Dirt
Title: Dirt
Character: Consuelo
Released: August 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Consuelo is the mother of a disappeared young woman, when she witnesses the clandestine burial of a girl by members of the state police, she decides to unearth the body to give it a better burial in the town's cemetery with the help of her brother Armando.
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I Carry You with Me
Title: I Carry You with Me
Character: Rosa Maria
Released: June 25, 2021
Type: Movie
An epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
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El Eco del Caracol
Title: El Eco del Caracol
Released: October 31, 2020
Type: Movie
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Anger, Also Known As Sheol
Title: Anger, Also Known As Sheol
Released: March 12, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an autobiographical documentary on the director's healing process of a terminal cancer. A film divided in three chapters: heaven, hell and the world.
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Two Fridas
Title: Two Fridas
Character: La Adelita
Released: November 24, 2018
Type: Movie
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
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Traición
Title: Traición
Released: March 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.
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Don't Pass Through San Bernardino
Title: Don't Pass Through San Bernardino
Character: Ligia
Released: March 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Amidst her pain and mourning, a peasant woman tries to find answers to her sons's death.
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Tamara and the Ladybug
Title: Tamara and the Ladybug
Character: Tamara
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.
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Number Eighty
Title: Number Eighty
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Carmela
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
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Para armar un helicóptero
Title: Para armar un helicóptero
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Oliverio lives in a building taken over by immigrants from the Mexican countryside who work constantly to provide the basic services lacking in the dwelling.
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The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Title: The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Released: August 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
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Get the Gringo
Title: Get the Gringo
Character: Evicted Woman
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
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The Girl
Title: The Girl
Character: Rosa's Mother
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
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Eternal Ashes
Title: Eternal Ashes
Character: Matiri
Released: December 9, 2011
Type: Movie
ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
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Spiral
Title: Spiral
Character: Araceli 2
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
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El último evangelio
Title: El último evangelio
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Violin
Title: The Violin
Character: Jefa Guerrillera 1
Released: March 11, 2005
Type: Movie
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Margarita Luna
Released: March 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Title: Like Water for Chocolate
Character: Nacha
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Tita de la Garza and Pedro Muzquiz are two souls in love who cannot be together due to deep-rooted family customs, which will force Tita to navigate with magical tints and flavors between the destiny dictated by her family and the fight for her love, while we accompany her in her greatest refuge: the kitchen.