José Rodríguez Granada

Movies

Total Recall
Art Direction
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company who manufacture memories. Something goes wrong during his memory implant turning Doug's life upside down and even to question what is reality and what isn't.
Firewalker
Production Design
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
Volunteers
Art Direction
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
Little Treasure
Production Design
Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.
Under the Volcano
Art Direction
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Trail of Death
Production Design
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Caveman
Art Direction
In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar, and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid
Caboblanco
Art Direction
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
La Casa del Pelícano
Production Design
An elementary school teacher tries to rebuild her life with her son, which is the result of a rape in a distant city. The child tries to grow in a common way, but his mother overprotects him with terrible consecuences
The Bees
Art Direction
Corporate smuggling of South American killer bees into the United States results in huge swarms terrorizing the northern hemisphere. A small team of scientists work desperately to destroy the threat, but the bees soon mutate into a super-intelligent species that threatens the world.
Foxtrot
Set Designer
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
The Devil's Rain
Art Direction
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
Tivoli
Production Design
While trying to save the famous Tivoli burlesque theater, the participants uncover a web of commercial corruption.
Doña Macabra
Production Design
The story of Armida (named ¨Doña Macabra¨ by her neighbors) and Demetria, two old women who live in an old house with Octavio, a kind of mad scientist. Their lives take an unexpected turn when the nephew of Armida, Lucila, recently married with Othón, arrive to the house looking for and old treasure, believed to be buried in the house. They will find a lot of dark and unexpected secrets.
Panic
Production Design
Three tales of horror, isolation and insanity set in Mexico.
Hardcase
Art Direction
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Art Direction
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Wrestling Women vs. the Killer Robot
Production Design
A lady wrestler and her boyfriend, a policeman, battle a mad scientist who has developed a murderous killer robot and uses it to kidnap wealthy people.
Un tipo dificil de matar
Production Design
A band of outlaws appear out of nowhere on a ranchers property and viciously shoot him down. They steal what they can from his ranch and kidnap his wife. They make for the Mexican border, but something starts stalking them. From: Exploitation.TV
Dr. Satan
Art Direction
Dr. Satan, a mad scientist and sorceror, plans to take over the world. In order to do so, he wakes up three zombie slaves from the dead and attempts to make a deal with the devil. He sends his zombie servants to do harm to anyone who stands in his way. Will anyone be able to stop him?
¿Qué haremos con papá?
Production Design
The funny story of a man who loses his memory in an accident and can not remember who was married to another woman, then meets another woman he marries and starts another life and lives alternately with a family 15 days and 15 days with the another arguing that their travel is for work in the Crown Brewery, which is in Veracruz where he lives with one family and one in Mexico.
Un callejón sin salida
Production Design
A shady character takes over as owner/manager of a nightclub, conflicts evolve.
She-Wolves of the Ring
Production Design
Intimate problems and the wickedness of friends is resolved in the ring.
Lawless Youth
Production Design
Jorge is arrested and brought to trial, where it is known that he chose crime due to the abandonment of his father.
¡Buenas noches, año nuevo!
Production Design
Backstage comedy; singer-dancer and her songwriter husband pretend to have an open relationship, because it makes them look smart and modern.
The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy
Production Design
If you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it! Xochitl, the mummy, can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreita, the Golden Ruby, joins her sister to battle the evil Prince Fugiyata and her Oriental female wrestlers. The mummy is also female and on the good side of the struggle.
Campeón del barrio
Production Design
A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.
Museum Of Horror
Production Design
A mysterious killer abducts girls off the street and covers them in wax.
The Bloody Revolver
Production Design
Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
Dile que la quiero
Production Design
Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.
Santo in the Wax Museum
Production Design
El Santo, the masked Mexican wrestler, investigates a series of kidnappings. He discovers that the mysterious Doctor Caroll is using the victims as part of his experiments to develop an army of monsters. Naturally, El Santo is able to overcome them all - with wrestling!
Doctor of Doom
Production Design
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister was one of the victims swears vengeance against the Mad Doctor.
Heaven and Earth
Production Design
Nun interferes in the lives of a dysfunctional family.
Spiritism
Art Direction
Satan gives a woman three wishes in this version of the classic tale, "The Monkey's Paw."
Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
Art Direction
Two screwballs get mixed up with monsters, mad scientists and vampires.
La rabia por dentro
Production Design
Tito is a swindler who plans to appropriate a large sum of money supposedly sent abroad by airplane, with the complicity of Carlos, the cashier of a big company, who must put a time bomb aboard the airplane while keeping the money. Waiting for the plan to develop, Tito enjoys the company of the North American starlet stripper Rita, but he seduces a Mexican chorus girl, and the two women eventually fight over him. What seemed to be a faultless plan starts going wrong. A scavenger takes the money without knowing, and Carlos feels remorse for having placed the bomb aboard the jet flight, and is going to confess his crime. Tito is abandoned by his lover, locates the money and takes it back, locates Carlos and kills him. Even then, he will find crime does not pay.
Then God Named It Earth
Art Designer
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
The Shadow of the Strongman
Supervising Producer
Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Ignacio Jimenez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
The Woman and the Beast
Production Design
Dedicated, saintly nurse has a twin sister who is a Bad Girl.
This Was Pancho Villa: Second chapter
Production Design
The second chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
This Was Pancho Villa: Third chapter
Production Design
The third and final chapter of director Ismael Rodríguez's series about Pancho Villa. Several stories about the life and death of the famous mexican revolutionary general.
Refifí entre las mujeres
Production Designer
Trip to the Moon
Production Design
In this movie a couple of comedians try to disappear for a while and end up in an asylum, where confused as the mad, and try to escape, but one of them falls in love and that complicates things.
The Marked Woman
Production Design
Beautiful woman with disfiguring facial scars learns to cope.
The Champion Cyclist
Production Design
Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...
This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter
Production Design
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
Huracán Ramírez
Production Design
Family comedy and family melodrama involving father and son wrestlers, little brothers, little sisters, girlfriends, waitresses...
Dos tipos de cuidado
Production Design
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!
Production Design
Young man returns to his home town from USA to reclaim his inherited properties.
The Devil's Money
Art Direction
Los dineros del diablo (The Devil's Money) is a Mexican drama film directed by Alejandro Galindo. It was released in 1953 and starring Amalia Aguilar and Roberto Cañedo.
Pepe El Toro
Production Design
The simple life and the values ​​of loyalty and solidarity of the poor people in the environment of professional boxing, is the plot of this film, where Pepe el Toro shows the effort and tragedies that are experienced in this profession.
El vagabundo
Production Design
Homeless/unemployed dude has a spiritual awakening and rehabilitates himself working at a circus.
From the Village to TV
Production Design
A young man goes to the capital to prove himself as an opera singer, after being rejected he must find other means to achieve fame
Mexican Bus Ride
Production Design
Newlywed Oliverio receives disturbing news that his mother is on her deathbed. He travels to a remote part of Mexico to fetch a lawyer who can sort out her will. Leaving his wife behind, he embarks on a bus ride that’s interrupted by an increasingly absurd series of episodes, including an impromptu birthday celebration; a one-legged man writhing in the mud; come-ons from an insatiable small-town belle, Raquel; and Oliverio’s frequent, Freudian nightmares.
Mujer de medianoche
Production Design
Young woman elopes with her fiancé; during their honeymoon, things happen that cause them to be separated, and she finds herself alone in a big city with no resources to fall back on.
El Ceniciento
Production Design
Valentin reaches Mexico City to stay with his countrymen Marcelo and Sirenia, parents of thirteen children. Marcelo gladly serves Valentin until he realizes that he is poor and throws him out of the house. By a suggestion Sirenia, Marcelo employs Valentin as a servant and exploits it mercilessly. But with the help of Andres, the fate of Valentin takes an unexpected turn.
Acapulco
Production Design
Young lady goes shopping for a millionaire husband.
Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!
Production Design
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?
Production Design
This musical comedy tells the story of two men whose friendship (whose beginning is told in "A toda máquina") is affected by assumptions love triangles and misunderstandings between the two, however, the value of that friendship overcomes all difficulties.
Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!
Production Design
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Full Spead Ahead
Production Design
A drifter lands a job as an officer in México City's elite motorcycle police unit and gets home with a mate of this unit. The mate is in love with a girl, but he and she are always making jealous to each other. The drifter and the mate get involved themselves in a fight to become the winner of conquering ladies and performing unit acrobatic tricks, interfering with their friendship and profession.
The Troublemaker
Production Design
Well-intentioned Tin Tan who is always making trouble for other people, sometimes on purpose and sometimes by accident.
My General's Wives
Production Design
The encounter with an old lover puts a revolutionary general in great danger of death.
¡… Y murío por nosotros!
Production Design
Esposa o amante
Art Direction
Perdida
Set Designer
Her stepfather rapes her and she runs away to home. After that, she's exploited by a series of men, and...
Mujeres en mi Vida
Production Design
Mexican romantic musical.
Coqueta
Set Designer
Blind nightclub pianist takes in a young singer/entertainer when she hits bottom... but once she gets stable and starts thinking about maybe a boyfriend, his unspoken intentions start to surface.
Eterna agonía
Art Direction
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Cita con la muerte
Art Designer
Carta Brava
Art Direction
Safe-cracker sets up a gangster rival to get arrested; after some unrelated adventures, that guy escapes from jail and pays him back.
Midnight
Production Design
A villain has his cronies kidnap a teacher and pretends to be him, teaching in a hidden town.
Revancha
Production Design
A man steals to buy medicine for his sick mother but when she dies he gets into drug trafficking at a local cabaret.
Una aventura en la noche
Production Design
Film version of the 'hitchhiking ghost' urban legend.
May God Forgive Me
Production Design
Concentration Camp survivor tries to start over with a new identity.
Yo soy tu padre
Production Design
La insaciable
Production Design
Guadalajara pues
Production Design
Curious film about the Mexican immigrant stunned by the dollar and the English language. The plot deals with a serious social mood, but narrated as a tale of romantic entanglements. Agustin Isunza is a funny former farm worker, whose employers, young and attractive blond Joan Page and Clifford Carr, dazzle the sibling pair starring Luis Aguilar and Amanda del Llano. Miguel Inclan, a rich potter from the area, has put his eye on them to marry their children, Katy Jurado and Raul Guerrero.
La reina del trópico
Production Design
Pasiones tormentosas
Production Design
In a small tropical town, two sisters fight over the love of a young man named José. Fabiola is a noble woman but Sandra will do anything to get him, including witchcraft.
Konga Roja
Production Design
Heroic adventures in the banana industry.
Hooray for Women!
Production Design
Movie in which funny situations based on the entanglements caused by a woman named Felicidad to her family because of her feminist ideology are presented, to the extent of bringing her daughters and herself to a divorce trial.
Morenita clara
Production Design
Priest nags a crusty old man into reconciling with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter after the death of his son.
El conde de Montecristo
Production Design
Adaptation of Dumas' swashbuckler classic.
El secreto del sacerdote
Production Design
Three boys grow up to be a priest, a military commander and the town mayor.
Hombre o demonio
Production Design
A 1940 film.
El Signo de la Muerte
Production Design
Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.
Hombres del mar
Art Direction
A 1938 film.
Águila o sol
Production Design
At birth, three children are abandoned in a convent. They are Polito Sol and his siblings, Adriana and Carmelo Águila and they grow up to become the "Águila o Sol" trio. Many years later, Don Hipólito, Polito's father becomes rich and decides to search for his son. In the end he finds Polito and the Aguila siblings.
Nobody's Wife
Art Direction
A melodrama that tells the story of a young woman forced to leave home because her stepfather abuses her.
Así es mi tierra
Art Direction
With revolutionary Mexico as a backdrop, a successful local rancher returns triumphant from the war to the praise of townsfolk, and "El General" is ready to take a wife. However the senorita of choice already has fallen for a secret admirer, and a boyhood rival who is threatened by the General's popularity in turn plots against his life.
Luponini (El terror de Chicago)
Production Design