Teresa Ruiz

Acting

Teresa Ruiz

Born 1988-12-21 · Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico

Teresa Ruiz is a Mexican actress, she has been granted several Best Actress awards internationally and is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio.

Acting credits

The Marksman poster
6.8

Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.

The Marksman

2021

Father Stu poster
7.1

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.

Father Stu

2022

Bordertown poster
6.3

American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

Bordertown

2007

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires poster
7.6

In the time of the Aztec empire, tragedy strikes Yohualli Coatl when his father is murdered by Spanish conquistadors. To warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger, Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlán. There, he trains in the temple of the bat god Tzinacan with his mentor, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spanish invasion and avenge his father’s death. Along the way, he encounters key figures like the fierce Jaguar Woman and the conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires

2025

Down the Rabbit Hole poster
6.8

Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.

Down the Rabbit Hole

2024

Coyote poster
NR

Hernán Barroca, a weathered ex-smuggler, gets pulled back into the dangerous world he thought he had left behind. When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate. As the past and present collide—with U.S. Border Patrol agent Bradley joining the pursuit—Hernán must rely on his cunning and grit to survive and find redemption.

Coyote

The Honest Candidate poster
6.6

A former idealistic leader turned corrupt politician is cursed by his grandmother on the eve of the presidential election, forcing him to be honest. Can he win without lies and what will be the conditions?

The Honest Candidate

2024

Cantinflas poster
6.7

Mike Todd is a Broadway producer struggling to produce the film. Around the World in 80 Days. In Mexico, Mario Moreno, a young entertainer is struggling to get some respect, and he manages to become a star. A twist of faith makes them partners. Together they won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Cantinflas

2014

Colosio poster
7.0

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.

Colosio

2012

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' poster
6.5

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

Mariachi Gringo poster
6.5

A stifled, small-town man stuck in a dead end life, runs away to Mexico to be a mariachi singer. MARIACHI GRINGO is a musical tour-de-force exploring the reality of "following your dreams" across cultural, personal, social and geographical borders.

Mariachi Gringo

2012

Noise poster
7.2

Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she will weave through the stories and struggles of the different women she will meet.

Noise

2022

No artwork available
NR

Set in the shadows of Costa Rica’s booming tech sector in 2010, Felipe, a reserved IT worker finds that his new job hides something far more sinister than it seems. As he’s pulled deeper into a web of deception and criminal exploitation, Felipe must decide how far he’s willing to go to do what’s right—before the system swallows him whole.

52nd State

A Gringo Honeymoon poster
NR

James Wallace is a young American. To him Mexico was just another adventure in a life lived without any grand plans. A place to go where nobody knew who you were and nobody cared. A chance to drop out and get by within Mexico's flourishing underground economy. When he finds himself working as a 'surgeon' in Carlos Melgarejos' burgeoning organ trafficking ring things start looking up. But that was before he met Rosalita, a prostitute at the amateur lucha libre whose profound beauty shakes his insouciance. Suddenly there's more to life than cutting out kidneys south of the border. James wants out and he wants to take Rosalita with him. For Carlos this is more than just another headache in a life filled with niggling trespasses, this is personal.

A Gringo Honeymoon

2015

Round Trip poster
6.5

Lucia is a Mexican girl from a poor town who sets her mind to cross the border to The United States to find her son's father who she hasn't heard from in years. On the road she meets Fernanda, a high middle class girl that has unresolved issues with her ex-boyfriend and is willing to travel hundreds of miles to resolve them once and for all. Lucia and Fernanda are two girls from two very different social backgrounds, yet they travel the same road hoping to reconnect with the men they love. But it seems destiny has brought them together in their individual quests to share a path, to know each other and to know themselves a little better and discover if happiness is at their destinations.

Round Trip

2009

Amorous Pancho Villa poster
5.0

The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.

Amorous Pancho Villa

2013

The Miracle of Marcelino poster
7.8

Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: one night the monks of the San Francisco Abbey find a baby in front of their gate. They call the boy Marcelino and take care of the little one with devotion...

The Miracle of Marcelino

2010

The Dog Thief poster
6.8

Martín is a 13-year-old orphan shoeshine boy from La Paz, Bolivia, who has lived his entire life in the streets with the hope and desire to find his father. Driven by this desire and his imagination, Martin bonds with one of his best clients: Mr. Novoa, a lonely tailor whose only emotional bond is his dog, Astor, a fine German shepherd whom he cares for like a son.

The Dog Thief

2024

Citizen Buelna poster
5.0

Rafael faces the complications of the revolution and discovers true love with Luisa.

Citizen Buelna

2013

Bienvenido Paisano poster
6.7

Epifanio is a gardener who has-been living with his wife and children in the United States for the past 25 years. When he recives bad news from his brother in Mexico, he takes his family on the journey of their lives. During this fun and action packed road movie homecoming, Epifamio's family will overcome obstacles and difficult situations using their Mexican wit.

Bienvenido Paisano

2006

Una Vez Más poster
5.0

Three women gather for the funeral of a mutual friend.

Una Vez Más

2015

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