Biography
Rodrigo Cortés Giráldez (born May 31, 1973) is a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, and occasional actor. Cortés' fondness for film making started at an early age. At 16 he had already directed his first short film in Super 8.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Escape
2024
Director, Screenplay
A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.
sometimes I return to that place
2024
Novel
A quiet off-season afternoon alongside the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos.
Love Gets a Room
2021
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
January 1942, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Thousands of Jews have been confined to the Warsaw ghetto for more than a year. Outside, li...
La broma
2021
Director, Screenplay, Editor
Elena and her lover Javier set in motion a plan to assassinate her husband Alberto, a successful businessman.
El asfalto
2021
Screenplay
Between astonishment and despair, Baldo, a courier, sees how, slowly and inexorably, he sinks into the asphalt.
Undercover Wedding Crashers
2021
Thanks
Geeky-looking Sebas is a surprisingly good classical musician. He’s also a complete unknown in the criminal underworld, and as a new newbie on the pol...
#AbroHilo
2019
as Self
Humor shapes the way Spaniards interact on Twitter: all sorts of topics can be used to make a joke and many anonymous commentators can become celebrit...
Down a Dark Hall
2018
Music Producer, Director, Editor
Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted ...
Lennon or McCartney
2014
as Self
550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only. ...
Torrente 5
2014
Script Consultant
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
1:58
2014
Writer, Director
A careless driver gets into serious difficulties when she runs into a mysterious group of assailants on an abandoned road.
Grand Piano
2013
Second Unit Director, Producer
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic perfor...
Por activa y por pasiva
2013
Producer, Editor, Music Producer
NoTodoFilm Fest 2013
Red Lights
2012
Music Producer, Director, Screenplay
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phe...
Apartment 143
2011
Second Unit Director, Music Editor, Music Producer
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with n...
Buried
2010
Director, Executive Producer, Editor
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lig...
The Contestant
2007
Music Producer, Director, Writer
Martín's lucky hit when he wins the most lucrative prize in television history puts his life upside down.
Dirt Devil
2007
as Narrador
Notodofilmfest short.
Dirt Devil
2007
Producer, Editor, Sound Editor
Notodofilmfest short.
War
2005
Thanks
During WW2 a boy tries to save himself and his baby sister from a German soldier.
Interruptus
2003
A robbery going wrong.
Interruptus
2003
Editor
A robbery going wrong.
Los 150 Metros de Callao
2002
as Narrador
Welcome to another edition of the legendary 150 meter race of Callao.
Los 150 Metros de Callao
2002
Director, Writer
Welcome to another edition of the legendary 150 meter race of Callao.
Dentro
2002
Director, Writer
Segment of "Dminutos del Calvario" for TVE.
Diminutos del calvario
2001
Director
15 Days
2000
as Rubén Salas
A mockumentary about a man who survives exclusively on TV shopping, but always returning every product before the 15-day free trial period expires.
15 Days
2000
Editor, Producer, Music
A mockumentary about a man who survives exclusively on TV shopping, but always returning every product before the 15-day free trial period expires.
Amores Perros
2000
Thanks
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...
La ley de Murphy
2000
as El Holandés (voice)
La ley de Murphy
2000
Editor
Yul
1998
as Narrador
The story of a socially awkward boy with genetic deficiencies cleverly implanted by an extremely obsessive mother.
Yul
1998
Director, Writer, Producer
The story of a socially awkward boy with genetic deficiencies cleverly implanted by an extremely obsessive mother.
The reckless and frightening case of the murderer of Salamanca
1989
An enigmatic and terrifying character known as the "victim" escapes from prison and sows fear among the inhabitants of Salamanca. He manages to hide a...
The reckless and frightening case of the murderer of Salamanca
1989
Director, Writer, Modeling
An enigmatic and terrifying character known as the "victim" escapes from prison and sows fear among the inhabitants of Salamanca. He manages to hide a...
Freak Shift
N/A
Executive Producer
An all-guns-blazing sci-fi action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters.