Rodrigo García Filmography

Live-In Maid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Writer/director Jorge Gaggero's affectionate tale of the role reversal between a formerly wealthy Buenos Aires socialite and the maid who has served her for 35 years gets the English-language remake treatment in this comedy drama from Six Feet Under and Carnivale veteran Rodrigo García. ~ Jason Read More

In Treatment [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Josh Charles, Embeth Davidtz, Melissa George, Blair Underwood

Tell Me You Love Me: Episode 04

Crew: Director

Americano

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Leonor Varela, Timm Sharp, Ruthanna Hopper, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: A recent college graduate is forced to choose between a life of limitless wealth and complacent security or a potentially dangerous trip down the road less traveled in first-time director Kevin Noland's tale of love and youth told against the backdrop of the Running of the Bulls. Chris McKinley (Joshua Jackson Read More

Big Love: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the Big Love pilot, we are introduced to Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) and his complicated family. Bill, who lives in a suburb of Salt Lake City, UT, owns Henrickson's Home Plus, a successful retail store that is about to open its second branch. Bill is having problems performing sexually, and Read More

Nine Lives

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

Carnivàle: Lincoln Highway

Crew: Director

Carnivàle: Tipton

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The carnival rolls into Tipton, where they find themselves less than welcome. The town is in bad shape, and the sheriff, Lyle Donovan, knows Samson (Michael J. Anderson), and his business, and warns him not to set up shop. Jonesy (Tim DeKay) takes Ben (Nick Stahl) into town for supplies, where Ben Read More

Carnivàle: Milfay

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the traveling carnival comes upon Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl), out in the Oklahoma dust in 1934, he's trying to bury his recently departed mother, while a man from the bank threatens to bulldoze their little house. Jonesy (Tim DeKay) helps out, gathering a group of carnies together to dig a Read More

Six Feet Under: Perfect Circles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Given that the opening sequence of each Six Feet Under episode begins with the death of a future Fisher & Sons client, it's rarely a good sign to see a major character appear right after the credits. But exactly two seasons after the series pilot that chronicled his father's death, Nate (Peter Krause Read More

Fathers and Sons

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kathy Baker, Ron Eldard, Gale Harold, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Vinessa Shaw, Bradley Whitford

Synopsis: Three families residing on the same suburban street struggle to strengthen their father/son bonds in this tale from filmmakers Rodrigo García, Jared Rappaport, and Robert Spera. As old wounds remain sensitive and alienation keeps generations of fathers and sons from truly bonding, the struggle to Read More

Carnivàle: The Day That Was the Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the middle of the night, Ben (Nick Stahl) brings Ruthie's (Adrienne Barbeau) body back to the carnival, hides her in her trailer, and tells Gabriel (Brian Turk) to stand guard. Then he goes to Lodz (Patrick Bauchau) for help. Lodz brings him to Management, who seems to know an awful lot about Read More

Carnivàle: Pick a Number

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the aftermath of Dora Mae's (Amanda Aday) murder, the show is packing up and leaving Babylon, but first, Samson (Michael J. Anderson) insists, someone must pay for the crime. Jonesy (Tim DeKay), convinced that Management doesn't exist, has a falling out with Samson, who implores him to trust Read More

Frida

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More

Ten Tiny Love Stories

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Directed and written by Rodrigo Garcia, Ten Tiny Love Stories features ten women who, in a series of monologues, talk about the men who have made the largest impact on their respective lives. Though each woman is unique in her experiences with love, sex, death, loss, and many other aspects of the Read More

Six Feet Under: In the Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A starlet lives fast, dies young, and leaves a beautiful corpse in the inaugural episode of the second season of HBO's Six Feet Under. As Fisher & Sons attends to the death of an ill-fated actress, Nate (Peter Krause), is haunted by the recent revelation that he has a potentially fatal brain Read More

Six Feet Under: A Private Life

Crew: Director

Synopsis: David (Michael C. Hall) is forced to face his fears and insecurities about his sexuality in the wake of the homophobic murder of a gay man, while Billy's (Jeremy Sisto) latest prank forces Nate (Peter Krause) to agree with Brenda's parents that their son should be institutionalized. Brenda (Rachel Griffiths Read More

Six Feet Under: The Room

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Two generations of Fisher women try to juggle the demands of lust when Claire (Lauren Ambrose) meets and indulges a dangerous mutual attraction to Brenda's (Rachel Griffith) brother Billy (Jeremy Sisto), and Ruth (Frances Conroy) spurns Hiram (Ed Begley Jr.) and is subsequently hit on by Nikolai Read More

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Although Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her does bear some similarities to Short Cuts and Magnolia in its setting (Southern California) and mood (modern malaise), and its multiple story format, its focus is exclusively on female characters, and it's possible to view each story on its own. Read More

Body Shots

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston

Synopsis: After making his directorial debut with the acclaimed made-for-cable movie Gia, writer Michael Cristofer helmed his first big-screen offering with this drama. When eight men and women in their early-to-mid-20s head out for a night on the town, hopping from one Los Angeles club to the next, not Read More

Gia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Faye Dunaway, Mercedes Ruehl, Kylie Travis

Synopsis: Novelist Jay McInerney and playwright Michael Cristofer (who also made his feature film directorial debut) collaborated on the script for this bio of doomed supermodel Gia Carangi. In a star-making performance, Angelina Jolie stars as Gia, a gorgeous Philadelphia native who arrives in New York Read More

The Birdcage

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane Read More

A Walk in the Clouds

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini, Angélica Aragón

Synopsis: In this atmospheric romantic drama, Keanu Reeves plays Paul Sutton, who has just returned home from a stretch in the Army during World War II. Still reeling from the horrors of war, Paul wants to settle down and start a farm, but his wife Betty (Debra Messing), whom he met and impulsively married Read More

Four Rooms

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

My Crazy Life

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Angel Aviles, Seidy Lopez, Jacob Vargas

Synopsis: Neighborhood pride runs deep in Echo Park, so when two lifelong friends join the local gang as a matter of course, they're handed down gang names from the previous generation of homegirls. Unfortunately, Sad Girl (Angel Aviles) and Mousie (Seidy Lopez) don't remain friends for long. When Mousie Read More

Danzon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Margarita Isabel, Tito Vasconcelos, Blanca Guerra

Synopsis: Spending the bulk of her time working and raising her child alone, Julia's life is filled with mundane grays. The only color in her life comes from her Wednesday night trips to Mexico City where she dances the danzon with her long-time partner Carmelo. But one night, she goes to dance and Carmelo Read More

The Minister's Wife

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sue Cash, Blake Gibbons, Gregg Almquist

Synopsis: Deborah Miles has just about had it. Her minister husband is too wrapped up in being a do-gooder to be any good for her, and their sex life has diminished to nothing. Deborah's daughter has just left for college, she herself is forty, and the only really good friend she has is a feisty old widow Read More

Lola

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leticia Huijara, Martha Navarro, Roberto Sosa

Synopsis: In this tender family drama, Lola is a single mother living in Mexico City who earns her living as a street vendor. She and the other unlicensed vendors like her must keep an eagle eye out for the police, and at the same time must try to eke out a living selling clothing irregulars. Despite that Read More

El Verano de la Senorita Forbes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis Castanares, Victor Cesar Villalobos, Guadalupe Sandoval

Synopsis: The Mexican/Spanish El Verano de La Senora Forbes (Summer of Miss Forbes) features Hanna Schygulla in the leading role. Schygulla plays a German governess, in charge of two Mexican boys while their parents are absent. The kids despise the governess, who is rigid and tyrannical. They go so far as Read More