Rafael Yglesias
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rafael Yglesias (born May 12, 1954, in New York City) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His parents were the novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias. The blogger and journalist Matthew Yglesias is his older son; his younger son, Nicholas, is also a novelist and has applied to become a police cadet. Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, and now lives in Greenwich Village. He attended the Horace Mann School and the George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine, but dropped out three months into 10th grade to complete his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After. It was published by Doubleday in 1972. He later began writing screenplays; the first to be produced, Fearless, was an adaptation of his novel of the same title. Other films written by Yglesias were adaptations of works by Ariel Dorfman, Victor Hugo, and Alan Moore; his latest film, Dark Water, is a remake of a J-horror film of the same name. His ninth and most recent novel, A Happy Marriage, is a fictionalized account of his nearly thirty-year marriage to the artist Margaret Joskow who died of cancer in 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rafael Yglesias, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Writer
- 8 on MovieCove
What are Rafael Yglesias' films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 6
A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 1 · Intense 5
Steady 0 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 0 · Heavy 6
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous2
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 Rafael Yglesias' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (3).
Subscription and free streaming for Rafael Yglesias' 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
8 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
One Dollar(2018)
Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all shows
Aquarius(2015)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Dark Water(2005)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
From Hell(2001)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Les Misérables(1998)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Death and the Maiden(1994)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Fearless(1993)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Rising Son(1990)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 8 titles from 1990 to 2018.
Biggest box office
From Hell (2001)
Highest rated
Les Misérables (1998)
Most popular right now
From Hell (2001)
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 Rafael Yglesias' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 72nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th4
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the dialogue 58/100 and the plot and story 56/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
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 Rafael Yglesias' work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 5 categories sits near the median of all films.
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 Rafael Yglesias work with?
People who share at least 2 of Rafael Yglesias' MovieCove titles; Trudy Ship shares the most, 2.
- Trudy ShipShared titles: Les Misérables (1998), Rising Son (1990)See all 2 shared titles with Trudy Ship