Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he authored Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guillermo Arriaga Jordán Roger Young (director) licensed under CC-BY-SA, fu...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Upon Open Sky
2024
Writer, Producer
Two teen brothers and their newly-met stepsister take a road trip to the Mexico-U.S. border in a tense revenge journey to track down the man responsib...
No One Left Behind
2019
Director, Writer
A group of American soldiers travel into Mexico for an unknown mission and they encounter a surprising world which changes their views.
Zero Hour
2019
Screenplay
A couple travels to Cuba for a romantic getaway. Leaving Havana for Varadero, Paula convinces Lorenzo to take a detour at the famous tobacco plantatio...
B-167-980-098
2018
Screenplay
The bodies of two young men are found in a small town in Northern Mexico, along with a AR15 weapon, which as we will follow back in time will see wher...
Guiltless
2017
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolv...
On the Milky Road
2016
Executive Producer
Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with goo...
From Afar
2016
Producer, Writer
Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a crim...
In Self Defense
2015
Screenplay, Writer
A doctor receives a call in the early morning. Álvaro, his neighbor, asks him to go urgently because an incident has happened. Upon entering the neigh...
Words with Gods
2014
Director, Producer, Writer
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the wor...
Rio, I Love You
2014
Director, Writer
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story...
Broken Night
2013
Writer, Director
A young woman and her four-year-old daughter drive across desolated hills. Everything looks fine and they seem to enjoy the ride, until an accident se...
Dreamers
2012
as Self
Dreamers is a film directed by Noelle Deschamps in 2012. Creation was always imagined as a mysterious process. Following these filmmakers, brings to l...
The Burning Plain
2008
Director, Screenplay
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic...
The Night Buffalo
2007
Screenplay, Producer, Novel
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a 22-year-old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into ...
Babel
2006
Writer, Idea
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005
as Juan
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005
Screenplay
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise...
Elephants Never Forget
2004
Producer
A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.
21 Grams
2003
Associate Producer, Writer
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of t...
Powder Keg
2001
Writer
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of hostile territory. While they are leaving Jacobs ...
Amores Perros
2000
Writer, Associate Producer
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his s...
Rogelio
2000
Director
A tragicomic short film imbued with magical realism that revolves around the theme of death, focusing specifically on the Mexican people's bond with t...
A Sweet Scent of Death
1999
Novel
Ramón is secretly in love with Adela. One morning, he discovers her corpse among the oat fields