José Carlos Ruiz

José Carlos Ruiz

Born: November 17, 1936
in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
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.

Movies for José Carlos Ruiz...

CARNAL
Title: CARNAL
Character: Gonzalo
Released: September 4, 2021
Type: Movie
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 disappearance.
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Tell Me When
Title: Tell Me When
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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
Title: Tigers
Character: Pascual el Viejo
Released: November 15, 2020
Type: Movie
A story centered on the centuries-old feud between the aristocratic vampire race and their former slaves, the werewolves.
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Title: Laws of love
Character: Armando
Released: February 12, 2018
Type: TV
The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.
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Stormmaker
Title: Stormmaker
Released: March 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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 basis. But deep down he feels the time has come to regain what he lost several decades ago, when he brought the oil curse to his own island, the lush Ciudad del Carmen. At the same time at the mysterious Estero Pargo, the goddess Ixchel has been reborn and seeks to mate with humans in order to continue the cycle of life.
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Warehoused
Title: Warehoused
Character: Mr. Lino
Released: November 10, 2015
Type: Movie
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
Title: One for the Road
Character: Emiliano
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: Movie
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 misadventures and meet a cast of colorful characters. Their journey fundamentally alters each characters' sense of self and their place in the world. There is, indeed, life after 80.
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Dark Side of the Light
Title: Dark Side of the Light
Released: June 3, 2013
Type: Movie
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 death of his victims.
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Title: Wild at Heart
Character: Padre Julián
Released: February 25, 2013
Type: TV
Corazón indomable is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of Marimar, produced in 1994, and starring Thalía and Eduardo Capetillo. Ana Brenda Contreras and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, while Ingrid Martz, Elizabeth Álvarez, Carlos de la Mota and René Strickler star as the antagonists.
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Suave Patria
Title: Suave Patria
Character: Jeronimo Natage
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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 Don Antonio Robledo, a senior executive who suffer a fictional kidnapping for later culminate in a surprise party.
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Crossing the Desert
Title: Crossing the Desert
Character: Don Prudencio
Released: May 18, 2012
Type: Movie
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 dying, she sends for Victor and her son Jose Francisco, who is working as his chauffeur. They both answer the summons. Their lives take an unexpected turn.
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Title: Soy tu dueña
Character: Sabino Mercado
Released: June 15, 2010
Type: TV
Soy Tu Dueña is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz González for Televisa. It starred Lucero, Gabriela Spanic, Fernando Colunga, David Zepeda, Sergio Goyri and Jacqueline Andere.
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El estudiante
Title: El estudiante
Character: Don Pedro
Released: August 14, 2009
Type: Movie
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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Title: Sortilegio
Character: Chucho
Released: June 1, 2009
Type: TV
Sortilegio is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa and stars Jacqueline Bracamontes and William Levy. It is a remake of Tú o nadie. From October 6, 2009 to February 17, 2010, Univision broadcast Sortilegio weeknights at 9pm/8c. From July 30 to September 7, 2012, Univision broadcast 2 hour reruns of Sortilegio weekdays at 1pm/12c, replacing Corazón Apasionado. From September 10 to October 19, 2012, reruns of Sortilegio were broadcast at 2pm/1c.
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Buddah's Head
Title: Buddah's Head
Character: Invitado 3
Released: May 17, 2009
Type: Movie
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 sheer banality of existence. Seeking redemption faced with the mother of the thief and asks forgiveness , learning to forgive yourself
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Morenita, El Escandalo
Title: Morenita, El Escandalo
Character: Obispo
Released: March 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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
Title: Más allá del muro
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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 personality, a strange complicity arises between them, creating strong bonds of friendship.
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Tear This Heart Out
Title: Tear This Heart Out
Character: Soriano
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
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 post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
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Title: Killer Women
Character: Comandante Quiroz
Released: June 17, 2008
Type: TV
Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.
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Cruz de navajas
Title: Cruz de navajas
Released: February 20, 2008
Type: Movie
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 becoming the most wanted delinquents of the region.
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El Garabato
Title: El Garabato
Character: Commander Carmona
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
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 an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.
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Title: Storm over Paradise
Character: Ahzac
Released: November 12, 2007
Type: TV
Tormenta en el Paraíso is a telenovela that was made by Televisa. This telenovela has a blend of new talents and with figures of extense experience in the television, and it began filming scenes in locations in the states of Quintana Roo and Veracruz on September 20, 2007. The telenovela is a production of Juan Osorio, premiered November 12 of 2007 in El Canal de las Estrellas.
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24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Title: 24 Horas para Desaparecer un Cadáver
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Guadalupe
Title: Guadalupe
Released: December 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Title: Amar sin límites
Character: Don Aurelio Huerta
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: TV
Amar sin límites is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on that company's El Canal de las Estrellas. The program debuted on 16 October 2006 at 7:30 pm; the first ten episodes were only thirty minutes long, with the program expanding to an hour long on 30 October and taking over the 7:00 time slot previously occupied by Duelo de Pasiones. After 135 episodes, the telenovela completed its run on 20 April 2007, and was subsequently replaced with Muchachitas como tú. In the United States, Amar sin límites aired on Univisión from 17 July 2007 through 18 January 2008 at 8:00 pm. This limited-run serial is a remake of the 2003 Argentine telenovela Resistiré; it is the first such remake, as a second adaptation, Watch Over Me, was created for MyNetworkTV in the United States and debuted in December 2006. Amar sin límites stars as protagonists Karyme Lozano and Valentino Lanús, whose characters, Diego and Azul, endure a tortured romance that becomes entangled in the world of organized crime thanks to Azul's fiancé, Mauricio, portrayed by René Strickler.
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Tribus Urbanas
Title: Tribus Urbanas
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Curandero
Title: Curandero
Character: Don Carlos
Released: October 18, 2005
Type: Movie
A journey that takes one man into the bowels of black magic in Mexico City
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Released: October 28, 2003
Type: Movie
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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Title: Dark Fate
Character: Isidro Valtierra
Released: October 20, 2003
Type: TV
Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.
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Title: Las Vías del Amor
Character: Fidel Gutiérrez Arismendi
Released: August 5, 2002
Type: TV
Las Vías del Amor is a Mexican telenovela that aired on the Televisa channel in Mexico and Univision in the United States from 2002-2003.
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Benjamín
Title: Benjamín
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Snake Skin
Title: Snake Skin
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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 nightmare.
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Title: Atrévete a Olvidarme
Character: Cecilio Rabadán
Released: August 6, 2001
Type: TV
Atrévete a Olvidarme is a short-lived Mexican telenovela. Running for only one month in 2001, the program starred Adriana Fonseca and Jorge Salinas.
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His Most Serene Highness
Title: His Most Serene Highness
Character: Máximo Huerta
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
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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Title: La casa en la playa
Character: Severo Rincón
Released: April 10, 2000
Type: TV
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Reclusorio III
Title: Reclusorio III
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
3 real life stories taken from the Mexican police archive.
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Title: Soñadoras
Character: Don Eugenio de la Peña
Released: August 31, 1998
Type: TV
Soñadoras is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1998, and shown in 1999 on Univision.
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Title: María Isabel
Character: Pedro
Released: August 4, 1997
Type: TV
Native American girl Maria Isabel makes friends with Graciela, a rich white girl, despite Graciela's father's opposition; their friendship lasts into their adulthood.
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Title: Pueblo chico, infierno grande
Character: Arcadio
Released: January 6, 1997
Type: TV
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Jasmine blossoms
Title: Jasmine blossoms
Character: Don Ramón
Released: November 24, 1996
Type: Movie
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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Title: Morir dos veces
Character: Orduña
Released: February 26, 1996
Type: TV
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Two Crimes
Title: Two Crimes
Character: Ramón
Released: May 26, 1995
Type: Movie
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)
Title: Suerte en la vida (La Lotería III)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
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Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Title: Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata
Character: Don Severo
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Benito Sánchez
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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El extensionista
Title: El extensionista
Character: Manuela
Released: February 28, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Cage of Death
Title: The Cage of Death
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
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
Title: Honeymoon Academy
Character: Choirboy
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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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Goitia: A God for Himself
Title: Goitia: A God for Himself
Character: Goitia
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Hope
Title: Hope
Character: General
Released: November 30, 1988
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Wrath of a God
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
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
Title: Reto a la vida
Character: Doctor
Released: March 31, 1988
Type: Movie
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 social worker Elena.
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Intriga contra México
Title: Intriga contra México
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
An international group is trying to destabilize Mexico by assassinating the President.
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Zapata en Chinameca
Title: Zapata en Chinameca
Character: Urbano Martínez
Released: February 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
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La mujer policía
Title: La mujer policía
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Contrabando y muerte
Title: Contrabando y muerte
Released: December 4, 1986
Type: Movie
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
Title: Astucia
Character: Tendero
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Historical melodrama on horseback, 1840s or so in central Mexico. Pulpy, Zorro-ish...
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The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Title: The Hex 2: Messengers of Hell
Character: Guillermo
Released: October 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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
Title: Salvador
Character: Archbishop Romero
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
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
Title: Three of Cups
Character: Narrator
Released: January 4, 1986
Type: Movie
While touring the towns, two revelers meet a beautiful woman who awakens greed and passion in both.
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Robachicos
Title: Robachicos
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
One woman and a detective are looking for lost children, in México City.
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Wandering Lives
Title: Wandering Lives
Character: Francisco
Released: September 19, 1985
Type: Movie
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
Title: Viaje al paraíso
Character: Pajarito
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Family plans for a quiet weekend at the beach, but everything goes wrong.
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Violent Stories
Title: Violent Stories
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Five surreal short stories make up this Mexican anthology film.
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Masacre en el río Tula
Title: Masacre en el río Tula
Character: El Mulato
Released: August 22, 1985
Type: Movie
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
Title: Toña Machetes
Released: January 31, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
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Operacion marihuana
Title: Operacion marihuana
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
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El Mil Usos II
Title: El Mil Usos II
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
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
Title: Luna de sangre
Character: Coco Loco
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Noche de carnaval
Title: Noche de carnaval
Character: Jincho
Released: January 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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Mundo mágico
Title: Mundo mágico
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
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Under the Shrapnel
Title: Under the Shrapnel
Character: Martin
Released: November 17, 1983
Type: Movie
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
Title: Fuego en el mar
Character: Manuel
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
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 second time. However, Gloria refuses to be financially dependent on her husband. The couple's conflicts become more acute when engineer Becker, Gloria's former lover, starts working again in the offices where she works.
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Oficio de tinieblas
Title: Oficio de tinieblas
Released: June 4, 1981
Type: Movie
"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. On the opposite side of the fence, the Native Americans have almost no way to better their living conditions or to fight oppression. They are also plagued by "superstition," which leads to some misguided actions that only make things worse. Violence and sexual encounters are interspersed throughout the story.
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El mil usos
Title: El mil usos
Released: April 26, 1981
Type: Movie
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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Cabo Blanco
Title: Cabo Blanco
Character: Hernandez
Released: March 13, 1980
Type: Movie
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 chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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Eagle's Wing
Title: Eagle's Wing
Character: Lame Wolf
Released: July 26, 1979
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Holy War
Character: Celso Dominguez
Released: July 5, 1979
Type: Movie
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 to peace. Celso and his companions are rejected by both sides.
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Cananea
Title: Cananea
Character: Manuel Diéguez
Released: August 17, 1978
Type: Movie
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
Title: Who'll Stop the Rain
Character: Galindez
Released: August 2, 1978
Type: Movie
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 crooked narcotics agents.
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The Children of Sanchez
Title: The Children of Sanchez
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
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 provide for his family in Mexico City. Also starring Lupita Ferrer as Consuelo and Stathis Giallelis as Roberto. This is the last film in the 50-year career of international star Dolores del Rio, who plays the Grandma. Jazz-pop performer Chuck Mangione was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a Grammy award for his original musical score.
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The Year of the Plague
Title: The Year of the Plague
Character: Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Released: February 12, 1978
Type: Movie
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
Title: Rattlesnake
Character: Tomás
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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 threaten to destroy his material.
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El elegido
Title: El elegido
Character: Judas
Released: January 13, 1977
Type: Movie
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
Title: The Bricklayers
Character: Jacinto Martínez
Released: December 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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 the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
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The Heist
Title: The Heist
Character: El Carajo
Released: August 5, 1976
Type: Movie
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 cell lead to a bloody confrontation.
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Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Title: Mexico, Mexico, ra, ra, ra!
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.
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Letters from Marusia
Title: Letters from Marusia
Character: Argandoña
Released: December 26, 1975
Type: Movie
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 repressive acts.
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El valle de los miserables
Title: El valle de los miserables
Character: Tío Chinto
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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Simon Blanco
Title: Simon Blanco
Character: Lic. Cardoso
Released: March 16, 1975
Type: Movie
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 eludes them.
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La muerte de Pancho Villa
Title: La muerte de Pancho Villa
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
After the Revolution, Villa works on defining his legacy... and then he gets assassinated.
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Buck and the Preacher
Title: Buck and the Preacher
Character: Brave
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
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
Title: They Call Him Marcado
Character: el Manco
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: Movie
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, who is of course her son.
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Emiliano Zapata
Title: Emiliano Zapata
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
This is the story of a man, Emiliano Zapata, and of a revolution, the Mexican Revolution.
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Valentín de la Sierra
Title: Valentín de la Sierra
Released: September 11, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Scapular
Title: The Scapular
Character: Ruiz, soldado
Released: January 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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
Title: Black Wind
Character: Pablo Penagos
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
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 are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
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Major Dundee
Title: Major Dundee
Character: Riago
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
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.