Robert Rodriguez films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 23 films on Boxlist

Known for Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, Sin City and El Mariachi.

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Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the...
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Sin City
2005 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others...
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El Mariachi
1992 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el...
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From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to...
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Planet Terror
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend...
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The Faculty
1998 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
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Spy Kids
2001 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the...
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Alita: Battle Angel
2019 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with...
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Desperado
1995 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
El Mariachi, a musician, arrives in a Mexican town and is mistaken as a hit-man. He runs into trouble with a local drug lord and seeks to avenge the death of his lover.
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Machete
2010 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an...
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
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We Can Be Heroes
2020 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
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Spy Kids: Armageddon
2023 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, they must become spies themselves to save their parents and the world.
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
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Hypnotic
2023 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
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Shorts
2009 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
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Four Rooms
1995 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
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Machete Kills
2013 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a...
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
2005 · Film
5.1/10 · TMDB
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action...
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Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
2011 · Film
4.8/10 · TMDB
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal...
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