José Ortiz Ramos

Birth : 1911-11-16, Tacambaro, Michoacan, Mexico

Death : 2009-12-16

Movies

Música de Viento
Cinematography
Toña Machetes
Cinematography
A woman adopts a child and discovers that she can love again despite facing a wicked man.
Charrito
Cinematography
Charrito is the villain actor in a movie, which is filmed in a town, that only produces headaches to the director, for being extremely distracted
God's Crooked Lines
Director of Photography
Newly-committed to a mental institution, a woman tries to convince her doctors that her husband conspired to have her put away for selfish reasons unrelated to her mental health.
De pulquero a millonario
Director of Photography
Unemployed commie activist from an under-developed neighborhood wins a lottery and starts mingling with rich people.
El Chanfle 2
Cinematography
is the continuation of the Mexican film El Chanfle (1979) Chespirito, which aired in theaters in 1982. At that time the cast of the neighborhood (with some absences: the Carlos Villagran, who decided not to continue working with Roberto Gomez Bolaños by a personal decision, he left in 1979. Ramon Valdez next year decides to accompany him, also leaving to work with Chespirito. returned with him in 1981, but a health problem that was detected in the early 80's, was prevented from participating in this film), it left room for the story of a lowly stagehand football team that achieves his dream beside his wife Tere, of having a child. In this film, the situation is a little different.
Everyone's Hell so Feared
Cinematography
The inner demons of an aspiring writer, whose dissatisfaction has pushed him to alcohol and drugs, lead him to his self-destruction under the guise of confusing political positions.
The Neighborhood
Photoscience Manager
Mexican comedian Alfonso Zayas is just one of the many folks in town who are cheating on their spouses, imagining themselves quite clever and secretive, even while unbeknownst to them their spouses are cheating on them in turn! When one of the many women with whom Zayas has a child dies tragically, he attempts to integrate his daughter into one of his other families, calling her his goddaughter. But when his son falls in love with her, the many sexual escapades around town threaten to take a disturbing turn for the worse.
Lagunilla, mi barrio
Cinematography
After 42 years of working as an antiquarian , Abel is fired by the children of his recently deceased employer; however, after this unexpected situation that leaves him in solitude and with little chance to get a new job, he decides to start again as antiques dealer in the popular Lagunilla market . There he will find real friends ; a humble life and, above all , a new opportunity to fall in love regardless of social differences.
Johnny Chicano
Director of Photography
A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.
Johnny Chicano
Papá de Johnny
A young peasant falls in love with his American boss, creating nothing but trouble for his Mexican girlfriend and his family.
Aunt Alejandra
Cinematography
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
Aunt Alejandra
Director of Photography
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
Three Women in a Bonfire
Director of Photography
Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach. Gloria doesn't come alone: she comes with young Susy, her lover. Alex will use all of his charms and luxury to manipulate his new guests; meanwhile, his wife and Gloria will gang up to murder him.
La casta divina
Director of Photography
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were the property of the landowners, who called themselves " divine caste ". On one hand, General Salvador Alvarado organized the revolution; on the other, the landowners hire Colonel Ortiz Argumedo to organized the defense of their autonomy. Don Wilfrido, one of the masters, do not hesitate to send his son to fight to maintain their wealth and privileges.
The Long Awaited Desperate Love
Cinematography
A thirty-something woman fears that life is passing her by and that she's going to end up as the family's 'maiden aunt'. She imagines that somebody in her circle is courting her, and he's too polite to disillusion her. And then...
La venida del rey Olmos
Director of Photography
After spending some time with the Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Reynaldo Olmos goes back to Mexico City and establishes a ministry in the poorest of poor neighborhoods. Is he sincere, or is this a scam?
Rapine
Director of Photography
Two humble indigenous woodcutters discover the wreckage of a plane that has crashed at the top of the mountains and decide to steal the belongings of all the occupants killed in the accident
The Other Virginity
Cinematography
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Guns and Guts
Director of Photography
Rene Cardona Jr.'s bloody Mexi-Western is the story of a hired gun that wants to complete his last big job so he can retire with his prostitute. The job consists of killing a sheriff who keeps himself hidden away inside an old monastery. A series of double crosses culminates with an excessively bloody Wild Bunch inspired massacre inside the monastery.
La tigresa
Cinematography
Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.
The Incredible Professor Zovek
Director of Photography
Escape-artist-mentalist-martial-arts superhero vs. mad scientist and monsters.
Yesenia
Director of Photography
A beautiful gypsy named Yesenia has no set path in life. During a caravan trip she meets Osvaldo who is enrolled in the militia, they both fall in love despite their differences and social prejudices.
The Champions of Justice
Cinematography
Blue Demon and pals square off against the Black Hand's army of super powered midgets. Five luchadores (Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, El Medico Asesino, La Sombra Vengadora, Tinieblas plus Black Shadow) face off against a mad scientist and his army of powerful wrestling midgets.
Robinson Crusoe
Director of Photography
The classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island
Just Right There, Mother!
Director of Photography
In a neighborhood of Mexico City, inhabit different characters. From a hardened general, suffering from delusions of persecution, to a recruit; two brothers dedicated to teaching music; two treasure hunters restless, and a friendly concierge who lives with her son, the popular Gordolfo Gelatino.
Fallaste corazón
Cinematography
Ugly-duckling older guy falls in love with a beautiful young woman. Offering her a marriage of convenience, to give her baby a father, might be a way to win her affection... Ya think?
Tres noches de locura
Cinematography
Anthology movie, episodes about three women who undergo stressful experiences that cause their minds to snap.
The Young Animals
Cinematography
A boarding house where four girls stay, each with their own personal problems.
Cristo 70
Cinematography
Running from the law, young crooks hole up in a small town... and get hooked into performing in the town's Passion Play.
Por mis pistolas
Director of Photography
Fidencio Borer, an apothecary in a village on the northern border of Mexico, discovers some old title of a mine in Arizona and decides to claim them. Trying to cross the border is a border guard intercepted by exaggerating in the line of duty. On the way is captured by a tribe of Apaches and is about to be burned alive, but thanks to the Great Head Horse Lying having toothache and learns that the prisoner it can heal, ordered his release on the condition that the cure. Fidencio would take the wheel and gets the eternal friendship of the Chief apache.
Crown of Tears
Cinematography
Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Agente 00 Sexy
Director of Photography
The beautiful Agent 00 is sent by the girlfriend of a mafia boss to catch his band of miscreants.
Dr. Satan vs. Black Magic
Director of Photography
Plutarco Satan returns, this time he's pitted against a rival evil organization intent on owning the very formula rumored to turn any metal into gold! Dr. Satan must go toe to toe with the vampiric black magician Yei Lin, in order to keep it out of their hands. The cost of failure? His eternal rest!
Esclava del deseo
Photoscience Manager
Criminals hiding out on an island find a shipwrecked stranger.
The Unknown Cowboy
Cinematography
The Sheriff of a small town, in his search of a robber bank, gets to another city, working undercover. There, he tooks the place of man recently killed, and falls in love with his widow.
Rosa la tequilera
Director of Photography
The singer Rosa La Tequilera is besieged by a very powerful rancher who wants to get to her at all costs, but finds resistance as there is another who wants the same.
Nosotros los jóvenes
Director of Photography
Young-adult movie about a crew of 8 or 10 upper-middle-class boys and girls -- mostly about the romance between two of them.
The Gangster
Director of Photography
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
The Bloody Revolver
Director of Photography
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Dile que la quiero
Director of Photography
Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.
El mariachi canta
Director
Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
Santo in the Wax Museum
Cinematography
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
The Brainiac
Director of Photography
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
Santo vs. the Vampire Women
Director of Photography
A professor recruits a professional wrestler to protect his daughter from vampires intent on kidnapping her and marrying her to the devil.
Santo vs. the Zombies
Director of Photography
Masked luchador "Santo" fights against an evil doctor and his zombie army.
La marca del muerto
Director of Photography
Mad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.
The Curse of the Crying Woman
Director of Photography
A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Caperucita y sus tres amigos
Director of Photography
Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
Acapulcan
Director of Photography
Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.
The Vivanco Ladies
Director of Photography
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Refifí entre las mujeres
Director of Photography
The Last Rebel
Cinematography
Mexican western film about Joaquin Murrieta, the Robin Hood of the West.
Trip to the Moon
Director of Photography
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
Pobres millonarios
Director of Photography
Squatter neighborhood finds a wealthy sponsor.
Locos Peligrosos
Director of Photography
A cellist and a pianist, along with the daughter of the owner of a musical home, form a classical trio. A television producer challenges confronting the modern equipment. Accept and so begin a new career in popular music, so despises his former employer, thus limiting the affair between his daughter and one of them.
Dios no lo quiera
Cinematography
The Champion Cyclist
Director of Photography
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
Teatro del crimen
Director of Photography
In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.
Tom Thumb
Director of Photography
A young boy born extraordinarily small must rescue his older brothers from a wicked ogre.
The Innocent
Director of Photography
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
The Third Word
Director of Photography
The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
The Road of Life
Cinematography
The story focuses in on three young boys who, arrested by the authorities, await sentencing in Mexico City's Juvenile Court. One boy has killed his stepfather to protect his mother; the second boy has been goaded into blinding his chief tormentor; and the third resorts to stealing to support his family.
Music School
Director of Photography
Maternidad imposible
Cinematography
Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...
La vida no vale nada
Director of Photography
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
El pueblo sin Dios
Cinematography
Unscrupulous rich guy owns all the businesses in border towns, is challenged by town's new priest.
Cuando me vaya
Cinematography
Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Lágrimas robadas
Cinematography
Mexican feature film
Eugenia Grandet
Director of Photography
A miserly father quashes his daughter's marriage plans because he thinks her fiance is a fortune-hunter.
Cuarto de hotel
Director of Photography
Newlywed couple move from small town to Mexico City. Their first night in the city, they get separated by accident, and it takes them 90 minutes and lots of incidents before they find each other again.
Apasionada
Cinematography
Returning veteran with PTSD/amnesia returns home and gets tangled up in a criminal investigation.
Angélica
Cinematography
Gangster-y club-owner vs. chorus girl. Blackmail, murder...
One Big Affair
Director of Photography
Lawyer Jimmy Donovan thinks a bicycle tour through Mexico is just the thing to keep him out of trouble until his client arrives. But when school teacher Jean Harper misses her tour bus, all of a sudden Jimmy is in for much more than he bargained for.
Si yo fuera diputado
Director of Photography
Cantinflas is a unique barber, who trades with an elderly neighbor, a lawyer by profession, laws lessons in exchange for haircuts and shaved. It proposes advice to defend in court the disadvantaged neighborhood. His success deputy seeks the votes as the other candidate, Don Próculo, it is not accepted by anyone but his own bodyguards. Don Próculo will use know how much ruse to win the election by the Council, and also for the love of 'Sarita'
The Port of the Seven Sins
Cinematography
Career criminals vie for ownership of a disreputable waterfront dive and for the love of the cabaret-gal that sings there.
Los enredos de una gallega
Cinematography
Cándida is a Galician who lives in Mexico and has been selling lottery tickets. Her dream is to buy an inn, but doesn't have enough money. In her quest for trying to get it, she runs into a scammer. In a stroke of luck, she wins first prize in the lottery, but the misfortune is merciless with her ​​because she can't find the ticket.
Doña Perfecta
Director of Photography
Liberal farmer Pepe has arrived in Santa Fe to visit his aunt, Dona Perfecta. While he's there, Pepe is eager to teach the traditional-minded townspeople a new way of living. Unfortunately for Pepe the people of Santa Fe aren't eager to embrace change, and when the citizens begin to voice resentment Pepe is forced to seek refuge with his sympathetic aunt. Dona Perfecta is just as traditional as any of the other townspeople though, and only suffers Pepe due to the fact that he is family. When Pepe and his cousin Rosario fall deeply in love, the situation quickly comes to a head.
Daughter of Deceit
Director of Photography
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
My Outlaw Brother
Director of Photography
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged with bringing in, El Tigre and his gang of bandits, takes Danny under his wing.
My General's Wives
Cinematography
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
Love for Life
Cinematography
An exhausted stranger arrives at a farm and starts to help the owner with the legal status of her land.
Susana
Director of Photography
The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
El Siete Machos
Director of Photography
Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.
Mujeres en mi Vida
Cinematography
Mexican romantic musical.
Eterna agonía
Cinematography
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
A Family Like Many Others
Director of Photography
The dynamics of a typical middle-class family are shaken up after the introduction of an enthusiastic door-to-door vacuum salesman.
You the Rich
Director of Photography
Pepe el Toro is married to Celia la Chorreada and they have two children.
Angelitos negros
Director of Photography
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
We the Poor
Director of Photography
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Women in the Night
Director of Photography
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Albur de amor
Director of Photography
Dark romantic melodrama, played out with high-stakes card games and cockfights.
Todo un caballero
Cinematography
An unmarried lawyer defends his ward's boyfriend, accused of murder. One of only a handful of films produced by RKO’s short lived Latin American production arm Ramex.
La vida íntima de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra
Director of Photography
El barchante Neguib
Director of Photography
Small-town Arabic family moves to Mexico City to live with the oldest son who made his career there. Follow-up (not a direct sequel) to El baisano Jalil (1942).
¡Ay qué rechula es Puebla!
Director of Photography
Two charros from Hacienda A come a-courtin' to hacienda B, owned by a friend of their father's. Also a horse-race.
El museo del crimen
Director of Photography
Stage magician/amateur detective helps police to solve a murder.
Hotel de verano
Videojournalist
This Musical-Comedy from Director Rene Cardona, features American actress Janice Logan as the dutiful daughter who is about to wed a much older man and widower as part of an arranged marriage orchestrated by her Father. Plans quickly change, however, once she meets a handsome singer and rising radio star, (played by actor Jose Pulido), who soon sweeps her off her feet-much to the dismay of her dear old Dad. Catchy musical numbers and a charismatic cast add to the charm of this war-time movie release.
Mis hijos!
Director of Photography
An endless series of disasters separates a mother from her children. It takes her over twenty years to find her way back to the bosom of her family.
Beautiful Michoacán
Director of Photography
When her father dies, a young woman must go to Michoacán to take charge of her lands, where she meets a young man and they both fall in love.
Hooray for Women!
Director of Photography
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Morenita clara
Director of Photography
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.