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José Carlos Rodríguez

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43 titles

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Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Non Negotiable poster
6.2

Hostage negotiator Alan Bender is called to rescue the president from a kidnapping, only to find himself also mediating to save his wife and marriage.

Non Negotiable

2024

Salón Rojo poster
NR

Eligio and Domingo are two older adult lovers who live out their sexuality in the anonymity and safety offered at the traditional "Baños Finisterre." However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were forced to close their doors. From then on, their paths diverge forever, until two years later when Eligio receives an unexpected visit from Domingo in the “Salon Rojo.” A magical space full of memories that stayed frozen in time.

Salón Rojo

2024

40 Years Young poster
5.8

After turning 40, César is invited to a culinary contest in Cancún, but a bitter discovery threatens to destroy his family as well as his chances to win the competition.

40 Years Young

2022

Christmases poster
NR

Jaime, a nostalgic old man, gets a device that can make him relive his memories, which he uses to see the last Christmas he lived with his family in 1995. This will show him that all memories have a price.

Christmases

2023

Love is (Not) Forever poster
NR

After a year of marriage, Viri and Agustin reunite with Agustin's old high school friends for a dinner where a revelation will test the bonds they had formed over 30 years ago.

Love is (Not) Forever

2025

Penélope poster
5.0

Penélope an eleven-year-old girl the daughter of a drug-trafficking mother and a violent stepfather is taken to live with Martin (Hugo Catálan), her biological father, after her mother is sentenced to eight years in prison, Martín who has never seen her before agrees to take custody, at first the relationship is difficult but in a short time Martín and Pénelope establish a bond, but when a gang of criminals kidnaps her father Pénelope launches in search of her father with the help of a 9 mm pistol and Nacho an Uber driver.

Penélope

2020

El Mito poster
NR

In Querétaro at the end of the 17th century, a spanish maiden has given birth to a creature.

El Mito

2021

2010s · 13 titles

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo poster
5.5

A famous drug kingpin escapes from prison. The mexican president wants him back in jail whereas the U.S. government wants him dead.

Chapo: El Escape Del Siglo

2016

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

Grandma's Wedding poster
6.9

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca to celebrate their grandmother’s wedding.

Grandma's Wedding

2019

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

Colores verdaderos poster
5.0

After spending seven years in jail, Carlos tries to start a quiet new life. However, fate leads him to return to his old occupation: counterfeiting money.

Colores verdaderos

2018

A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency poster
4.3

A governor wants to be president, but in order to reach his goal he needs to do what he hates most: being a politician.

A Beginner's Guide to the Presidency

2016

De mujer a mujer poster
5.0

Ana leaves her abusing husband in order to get her lfe back inspite the opposition of her own mother

De mujer a mujer

2014

American Curious poster
6.8

A mexican chef meets her love interest in an american man.

American Curious

2018

Leaf Blower poster
7.0

Three friends have a special mission: find some keys lost in a pile of dead leaves. It may seem a simple task, but it will turn into an odyssey when it confronts them to their fear to grow up. This afternoon, as trivial as it may sound, could change the course of their lives.

Leaf Blower

2015

File of Attempted Murder poster
6.3

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

File of Attempted Murder

2010

Ladies Nice poster
4.8

A groups of kids have a reckless party ignoring that their parent´s sins will fall over them

Ladies Nice

2013

The Mother poster
2.0

Javier and Elisa have committed a murder. María, Javier's mother, has to decide whether or not to help her son.

The Mother

2012

Sexomáticos poster
6.0

Lucrecia and Gerardo, a young and happy married couple, see their peace of mind interrupted when he starts consulting an internet site called Sexomático where night after night he fulfills all his erotic fantasies... until his wife finds out. She tries to curb that addiction, but now they are both in the same problem.

Sexomáticos

2013

2000s · 12 titles

Vantage Point poster
6.4

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see? As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape.

Vantage Point

2008

The Mexican poster
6.0

Jerry Welbach, a reluctant bagman, has been given two ultimatums: The first is from his mob boss to travel to Mexico and retrieve a priceless antique pistol, known as "the Mexican"... or suffer the consequences. The second is from his girlfriend Samantha to end his association with the mob. Jerry figures alive and in trouble with Samantha is better than the more permanent alternative, so he heads south of the border.

The Mexican

2001

Rudo & Cursi poster
7.2

Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.

Rudo & Cursi

2008

2033 poster
4.2

In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial yuppie that gets shelter in drugs and alcohol. He leaves his privileged life in order to help the unprotected and destroy the system that controls the population.

2033

2009

Gimme Power poster
6.7

When a Mexican film director becomes fed up with the crime and corruption in his homeland, he decides to single-handedly take on a powerful band of criminals.

Gimme Power

2000

On the Edge poster
5.6

Three flatmates in Mexico City face uncertainties: Lucía who has a great job as an art director for TV commercials is abusing alcohol and cocaine. She risks losing her job, going to prison for assault, and she's woefully in love with a bullfighter who may be two-timing her. Carmen, an artist without income, can be manic - snorting lots of cocaine and hanging out with a gay man and a transvestite. What's her future? Hanna contemplates divorce from Abraham, a wealthy momma's boy, and she's disoriented by feelings of attraction to Sandra, a customer at her jewelry store. Can any of these poor little rich girls sort things out in a world of excess?

On the Edge

2006

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life poster
5.4

The women of a prosperous provincial family hide unsuspected secrets which range from the entanglements of love to murder for mercy or for greed. The story of these eccentric women combines love, potions, black humor and death.

A Good Death Beats a Dull Life

2006

La voladora poster
5.0

Something is happening that seems to be a karmic payback for city-bus drivers who have been responsible for running over pedestrians while on duty.

La voladora

2008

El mataputos poster
4.0

A serial killer hunts for gay men in Mexico.

El mataputos

2007

El Asesino de Cumbres poster
5.0

Based on the chilling real events that shocked Mexico. A young man who seems to have everything in life, suddenly loses his mind and plans the murder of his girlfriend and her family. Tragedy and blood envelop Karla's life when one night a hooded man breaks into her home, attacks two small children and then tries to kill her. The truth is hidden behind the sick relationship of Karla and her boyfriend.

El Asesino de Cumbres

2006

No artwork available
NR

Grandma feels good, but everyone tells her she is about to die

Sirenas de fondo

2007

Black Box poster
6.0

After Emiliano dies from poisoning, a vault in Zürich opens to reveal a video tape of edited fragments from surveillance cameras that captured the most important day in Emiliano's life. That day he learned that what matters most in life are not beginnings or endings, what matters most is one defining moment: his peculiar encounter with Juan when he recruited him to assassinate a former presidencial candidate.

Black Box

2009

1990s · 7 titles

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