Guillermo Arriaga Filmography

Occupation:: Associate Producer, Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter, Book Author
Biography:: Born in 1958, Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga is best known for his frequent collaborations with director Alejandro González Iñárritu, beginning with 2000's critically acclaimed Amores Perros. However, he also won high marks and a Best Screenplay award at Cannes for penning 2005's The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada...Read More

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The Burning Plain

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Joaquim de Almeida, John Corbett, Robin Tunney

Synopsis: Charlize Theron top-lines the romantic ensemble The Burning Plain, written and directed by Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. 2929 Production's film tells the tale of a web of interconnecting love stories, with Theron playing Sylvia, a woman with a troubled past who tries to reconcile with her Read More

1/1/08
Dusk

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jose Maria Yazpik, Iliana Fox

2008
Babel

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi, Adriana Barraza, Koji Yakusho

Synopsis: The tragic aftermath of human carelessness travels around the world in this multi-narrative drama from filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu. Richard (Brad Pitt) and Susan (Cate Blanchett) are a couple from the United States who have traveled to Morocco in Northern Africa on a vacation after the Read More

10/27/06
The Night Buffalo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Luna, Liz Gallardo, Gabriel González, Irene Azuela, Emilio Echeverria

2006
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones

Synopsis: Veteran screen star Tommy Lee Jones makes his directorial debut with the fractured tale of murder and injustice on the U.S.-Mexico border scripted by Amores perros and 21 Grams screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) is a fresh-faced Border Patrol officer in Cibolo County, Texas Read More

12/14/05
21 Grams

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very different people. Paul (Sean Penn) is a math Read More

11/21/03
Amores Perros

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Emilio Echeverria, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero

Synopsis: Three stories of life along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother, which leads to a serious problem when he falls in love with Susanna, his sister-in-law. Octavio and Susanna want to run away together, but Octavio has no Read More

6/16/00
Un Dulce Olor a Muerte

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Ana Alvarez, Diego Luna, Héctor Alterio, Laila Saab

Synopsis: Murder, mob justice and a young man's coming of age are brought together in this thriller filmed in Mexico. Ramon (Diego Luna), a young man who lives in a small Mexican farming community, one day finds the body of Adela (Laila Saab) in a field, stabbed to death. The incident is doubly upsetting Read More

1999