Rodrigo Cortés Giráldez (born 31 May 1973) is a Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, writer and occasional actor. He is best known for directing the 2010 psychological thriller Buried. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodrigo Cortés, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- May 31, 1973 (53)
- Pazos Hermos, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
- Director, writer, editor and producer
- 9 on MovieCove · 28 credits in all
What are Rodrigo Cortés' films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
Light 0 · Serious 1 · Dark 5
Grounded 5 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 5
Steady 2 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 2
Casual 0 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 0 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Rodrigo Cortés' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (6).
- Love Gets a Room (2021) · director, writer, producer, editor · free
- Buried (2010) · director, producer, composer, editor · free
- Red Lights (2012) · director, writer, producer, composer, editor · free
- Grand Piano (2013) · producer · free
- Apartment 143 (2011) · writer, producer, composer, editor · free
- Down a Dark Hall (2018) · director, composer, editor · free
- Magnolia Selects, show their 2 titles on Magnolia Selects
- Monsters and Nightmares, show their 2 titles on Monsters and Nightmares
- Howdy, show their title on Howdy
- Lionsgate+, show their title on Lionsgate+
- MovieSphere+, show their title on MovieSphere+
- Shout! TV, show their title on Shout! TV
- ViX, show their title on ViX
- Warriors & Gangsters, show their title on Warriors & Gangsters
Subscription and free streaming for Rodrigo Cortés' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
28 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Vincent Finch: 10 años después (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Escape (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Love Gets a Room(2021)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Stories to Stay Awake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Down a Dark Hall(2018)
Midcredits score: 20th percentile of all films
1:58 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Grand Piano(2013)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Por activa y por pasiva (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Red Lights(2012)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Apartment 143(2011)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all films
Buried(2010)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Ilustres Ignorantes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Flikken Maastricht (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Contestant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Dirt Devil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
War (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Interruptus (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Dentro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Los 150 Metros de Callao (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2002)
Diminutos del calvario (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
15 Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Amores Perros(2000)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all filmsLa ley de Murphy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Yul (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
El descomedido y espantoso caso del victimario de Salamanca (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Freak Shift (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 28 titles, 27 of them dated from 1989 to 2025.
Biggest box office
Buried (2010)
Highest rated
Love Gets a Room (2021)
Most popular right now
Red Lights (2012)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Rodrigo Cortés' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 40th percentile, the median of all 9; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 45th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
None of their 9 titles divides audiences: 4 are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the atmosphere 70/100 and the pacing 55/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Rodrigo Cortés' work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, frightening / intense runs heavier than most films and sex & nudity lighter.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Rodrigo Cortés work with?
People who share at least 2 of Rodrigo Cortés' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Víctor Reyes shares the most, 6.
Writers
- Chris SparlingShared titles: Down a Dark Hall (2018), Buried (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Sparling
Composers
- Víctor ReyesShared titles: Love Gets a Room (2021), Down a Dark Hall (2018), Grand Piano (2013), Red Lights (2012), Apartment 143 (2011), Buried (2010)See all 6 shared titles with Víctor Reyes
Producers
- Adrián GuerraShared titles: Love Gets a Room (2021), Down a Dark Hall (2018), Grand Piano (2013), Red Lights (2012), Apartment 143 (2011), Buried (2010)See all 6 shared titles with Adrián Guerra
- Núria VallsShared titles: Love Gets a Room (2021), Down a Dark Hall (2018), Apartment 143 (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Núria Valls
- Miki NadalShared titles: Red Lights (2012), Apartment 143 (2011), Buried (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Miki Nadal
