Ángeles Cruz

Acting

Ángeles Cruz

Place of birth

Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

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 Fi…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

A Child of My Own poster
8.7

Desperate for a baby and burdened by family and societal expectations, a woman fakes a pregnancy and gets tangled in a crime.

A Child of My Own

2026

The Follies poster
6.4

Six women share a common 'friend': madness. It visits us all, pushes us to decide reality, to make daring decisions and to transform our lives.

The Follies

2025

Dirt poster
NR

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.

Dirt

2021

Alex poster
NR

Alex, a non-binary person, becomes pregnant and seeks an abortion with support from their aunt Salome, a traditional doctor.

Alex

2026

I Carry You with Me poster
7.0

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.

I Carry You with Me

2021

Finlandia poster
5.8

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.

Finlandia

2021

Juana poster
NR

Juana is a woman driven by an unshakable sense of duty who delves into infamous crimes against women, giving herself entirely to the pursuit of truth. Each revelation carries weight and each step forward increases the tension, drawing the viewer into a world where obsession, courage, and vulnerability collide.

Juana

2026

Familia poster
7.0

As a family discusses the future of their idyllic olive farm over a meal, the complexity of their relationships emerges through laughs and confessions.

Familia

2023

The Woman of Stars and Mountains poster
8.0

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.

The Woman of Stars and Mountains

2024

Sobre las olas poster
NR

On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress Rocío Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.

Sobre las olas

2026

Soy lo que nunca fui poster
NR

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.

Soy lo que nunca fui

2025

Subterránea poster
NR

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.

Subterránea

2022

Medusa poster
6.0

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.

Medusa

2022

Por Fabiana poster
10.0

A 41-year-old dairy farm worker in upstate New York, relies on toughness, solitude, and mistrust to survive long shifts of work. Then, a 21-year-old single mother forces her to reexamine what is important to her.

Por Fabiana

2025

El Eco del Caracol poster
NR

Enoc, a boy from an indigenous community fighting against the dispossession of his lands, is afraid to return home to explain everything to his mother without Nathil, his little sister. He suspects that the army killed her when they fired on the protest that the people of his town were holding. Frightened by the bells that call people to mass for the dead, he desperately searches for her among the rocks and waves of the sea.

El Eco del Caracol

2020

2010s · 13 titles

Get the Gringo poster
6.6

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.

Get the Gringo

2012

The Girl poster
6.1

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

The Girl

2012

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' poster
6.9

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'

2013

Two Fridas poster
6.5

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.

Two Fridas

2018

Ramona poster
5.5

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.

Ramona

2014

Number Eighty poster
NR

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.

Number Eighty

2016

Anger, Also Known As Sheol poster
NR

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.

Anger, Also Known As Sheol

2019

Tamara and the Ladybug poster
5.2

Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.

Tamara and the Ladybug

2016

Traición poster
5.3

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.

Traición

2018

Eternal Ashes poster
3.7

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.

Eternal Ashes

2011

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness poster
5.5

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.

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

2012

Para armar un helicóptero poster
NR

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.

Para armar un helicóptero

2013

Don't Pass Through San Bernardino poster
NR

Amidst her pain and mourning, a peasant woman tries to find answers to her sons's death.

Don't Pass Through San Bernardino

2017

2000s · 5 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Valentina or the Serenity poster
7.0

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

Valentina or the Serenity

2024

Valentina or the Serenity poster
7.0

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

Valentina or the Serenity

2024

Valentina or the Serenity poster
7.0

Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.

Valentina or the Serenity

2024

Nudo Mixteco poster
6.6

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Nudo Mixteco

2021

Nudo Mixteco poster
6.6

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Nudo Mixteco

2021

Nudo Mixteco poster
6.6

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Nudo Mixteco

2021

Sobre las olas poster
NR

On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress Rocío Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.

Sobre las olas

2026

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness poster
5.5

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.

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

2012

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness poster
5.5

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.

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

2012

No artwork available
NR

12-year-old Sira lives in a hidden home in Barcelona's urban park. After finding an enchanted necklace, she discovers a magical realm mirroring her emotions and must balance both worlds to restore harmony.

Sira and the Secret of the Park

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No artwork available
NR

12-year-old Sira lives in a hidden home in Barcelona's urban park. After finding an enchanted necklace, she discovers a magical realm mirroring her emotions and must balance both worlds to restore harmony.

Sira and the Secret of the Park

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Arcángel poster
5.0

Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.

Arcángel

2018

Arcángel poster
5.0

Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.

Arcángel

2018

The Letter poster
3.2

A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.

The Letter

2014