Rodrigo Puebla

Birth : 1929-03-13, San Diego de La Union, Guanajuato, Mexico

Death : 1993-01-15

Movies

Ruby Cairo
Bank Teller #1
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Río de sangre
Traición
Tras el horizonte
The pursuer
A man is on the run after taking revenge on his brother murder, but someone goes after him too
Romancing the Stone
Bad Hombre
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Mundo mágico
Anthology movie that presents 3 stories about romance.
El Norte
El Puma the Soldier
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life.
Cazador De Asesinos
A retired police officer looks for revenge after his family is attacked by a gang of criminals.
La venganza de Maria
Arms/drug smuggler wants Maria to take care of his puppies... but he also has reasons to kill off most of her menfolk family members, one or two at a time.
El vengador del 30-06
Matias
Es mi vida
Preso
La Chèvre
Club doorman (uncredited)
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
At a Lame Pace
Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.
Albur de amor
Romantic triangle on the hacienda. Ends badly for all concerned.
Benjamín Argumedo el rebelde
Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.
Life Sentence
Cotorra
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Picardía mexicana
An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.
Pedro Páramo, el hombre de la Media Luna
Tilicuate
Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
Pasajeros en transito
La puerta falsa
Young heroin addict dies in the pursuit of his calling, and his brother goes on a vendetta against the narco gang that supplied his drugs.
El elegido
Valentin
A guy is peer-pressured, despite his reluctance, to play the role of Christ in a local production of the Passion Play.
Longitud de guerra
Chabolé
Based on the novel Tomochic by Heriberto Frías; tells the story of the rebellion of the inhabitants of the village of Tomochi, Chihuahua, against the government of Porfirio Diaz in 1891. Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1976.
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Pedro
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
Devil's Mountain
El Carretonero
Adaptation of cowboy comic-book El Payo, #2 in a series.
The Encounter of a Lonely Man
Alberto is a journalist who remembers an event 15 years ago, when his friend Gabriel saved a girl from a fire suffering third-degree burns. When he tells the story to his friends, one of them asks him to write it with realism, so Alberto comes back to his old town to meet Gabriel again.
La isla de los hombres solos
Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.
Those Years
Gen. Tomás Mejía
President Juárez fights against the conservatives, who have ordered an emperor to be brought from France to govern Mexico
Los doce malditos
Escaping after a heist, bank-robbers run afoul of an ex bounty hunter with whom they have back story.
El principio
Santos
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
The Magnificent One
Benson
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
El águila descalza
Moctezuma, paciente Manicomio
Shmuck makes a superhero costume, rides his bike to crime scenes. He gets involved with something big involving US capitalists taking over local Mexican businesses.
El Quelite
(uncredited)
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.