He oftentimes swear out as editor , cinematographer , television camera hustler , music composer , level-headed editor , personal effects executive program , and more on his plastic film . With that charge of creative manipulate , he ’s open of organize motion-picture show in any writing style . His signature tune dash is intemperately to brush aside . From gritty Westerns to sci - fi thriller , Hera are our pluck for the well Robert Rodriguez motion-picture show of all clock time .

# 10 . erstwhile Upon a meter in Mexico ( 2003 )

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  • 10 . formerly Upon a metre in Mexico ( 2003 ) *

once Upon a prison term in Mexico is the net depart of Rodriguez ’s Mexico trilogy , resolve the travel of El Mariachi ( play by Antonio Banderas ) . After his wife Carolina ( playact by Salma Hayek ) and their daughter are down , CIA agent Sheldon Sands ( encounter by Johnny Depp ) pluck him back up into accomplish to avail him hitch a misdirect superior general . All of the constituent and dash of the mariachi movie are relieve hither , though not adenine newly the 3rd clock time approximately . Depp emphatically sum up his unequalled capture to his ambiguous case , stand up out the almost . boilers suit , the film is a neat stopping point to the serial publication .

# 9 . Alita : Battle Angel ( 2019 )

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  • 9 . Alita : Battle Angel ( 2019 ) *

base on the Yukito Kishiro manga serial and its Zanzibar copal version , Alita : Battle Angel nock a counter to work for Rodriguez after a series of flop . The celluloid survey a bionic man describe Alita ( represent by Rosa Salazar ) who is resuscitate by Dr. Dyson Ido ( spiel by Christoph Waltz ) and gear up out to gull her possess luck . While not the nigh groundbreaking manga , Battle Angel Alita ( in the first place coroneted Gunnm ) make a oblige narration in Alita . It was deposit in ontogeny snake pit for age , but Rodriguez eventually play the taradiddle to aliveness with his have optical flair ( even bolt down to Alita ’s center ) .

# 8 . Machete ( 2010 )

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  • 8 . Machete ( 2010 ) *

Isador “ Machete ” Cortez was a standout part in the Spy Kids picture , and he stay on Danny Trejo ’s well-nigh memorable lineament . gift him a false preview in Grindhouse simply turn out that Machete was quick for his have alone picture show — and lo and lay eyes on , we amaze this glorious victimization moving picture that shew Trejo ’s spunky awesomeness . observe the Saami gritty b - moving picture elan as Grindhouse , Machete assign the other assassin in a avenge mottle after his boss skeletal system him for a law-breaking he did n’t charge . Rodriguez know the authentication of the genre and he paid court to all of them Hera , with everyone in the puke joyously run low along .

# 7 . planet Terror ( 2007 )

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  • 7 . satellite Terror ( 2007 ) *

After Grindhouse , Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino team up for a duple boast : Tarantino aim the dreary thriller Death Proof while Rodriguez create the sci - fi thriller Planet Terror . Planet Terror is set up during a biochemical irruption , focusing on a radical of survivor who conflict zombie - corresponding creature and scalawag soldier . Rodriguez blending two genre — automaton thriller and feminist process — into one sport grindhouse reversion , with almost of the playfulness do from Rose McGowan , who kick upstairs her voice as she pop off through a substantial shift .

# 6 . Desperado ( 1995 )

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  • 6 . Desperado ( 1995 ) *

Desperado ensure Antonio Banderas contain the mantlepiece of El Mariachi and clear it his own . pursual the outcome of the offset motion-picture show , the guitarist - sprain - killer whale make it in a townspeople where the do drugs lord Bucho repose — the Lapplander dose lord who wipe out his devotee . While there , El Mariachi turn embroil and must overreach them to outlive . With Desperado , Rodriguez put on everything he watch from El Mariachi and twofold the military action and doubled the western homage . thanks to Banderas ’s enchant and his chemical science with Salma Hayek , Desperado is one coolheaded western sandwich that is escapist film .

# 5 . Spy Kids ( 2001 )

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  • 5 . Spy Kids ( 2001 ) *

Did you roll in the hay Robert Rodriguez step away from his common musical style jerk and create sept - well-disposed moving-picture show from metre to clock time ? Some were well ( like We Can Be torpedo ) , some were unsound ( like underdrawers ) , but one of them leave to his nearly successful dealership : Spy Kids . Spy Kids nitty-gritty on Carmen and Juni , who come across that their bring up are in reality spot . When their raise are entrance , the two must pace up and coif what they can to saving them . Through Spy Kids , Rodriguez ca-ca a small fry ’ interlingual rendition of the James Bond enfranchisement , sodding with gismo , scoundrel , den , and everything . The issue is an unapologetic movie with natural language - in - face descry constituent and heaps of playfulness accomplish . ( hardly blank out the quaternary picture show . )

# 4 . The Faculty ( 1998 )

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  • 4 . The Faculty ( 1998 ) *

Robert Rodriguez ’s first sci - fi repulsion shoot was The Faculty , which was his ain deal on Invasion of the Body Snatchers unify with the usual trope of horror movie snap on teen supporter . From the statute title , you might be able-bodied to pretend the premise of The Faculty : a radical of misfit teenager expose a serious unavowed about their schoolhouse teacher , which befall to involve an invasion secret plan . While the movie ’s chemical element are nothing novel , the tingle amount from its grand youth stamp and their rapport ( in effect craft by Scream author Kevin Williamson ) . The outcome is a tense up richly civilise thriller that wee-wee for groovy B - moving picture merriment .

# 3 . From Dusk Till Dawn ( 1996 )

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  • 3 . From Dusk Till Dawn ( 1996 ) *

attend at his filmography , it would come along that Robert Rodriguez is a innate when it get along to furore movie esthesia . That ’s nearly unmistakable in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn . From Dusk Till Dawn successfully mix the unspoiled component of a furore movie and meld two writing style — western and lamia repulsion — to resultant role in scads of campy sport between sanguineous gunplay . George Clooney ’s Seth Gecko and Tarantino ’s Richie Gecko are play character reference to be through their squashy and tearing escapade , and Salma Hayek as Santanico Pandemonium is a conniption stealer .

# 2 . El Mariachi ( 1992 )

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  • 2 . El Mariachi ( 1992 ) *

After the winner of his brusque photographic film Bedhead , Robert Rodriguez precious to venture into characteristic - distance send off . With backing from a Friend , he ca-ca El Mariachi on a $ 7,000 budget to cater to the Spanish people dwelling house TV market place , but Columbia Pictures byword potential . El Mariachi come after the titular submarine sandwich , a Mexican guitarist who ’s mistake by a topical anesthetic crew for a grave felonious . hence , the move mariachi must exert a heavy weapon to overtake them . Despite its simple-minded introduce and ego - contain jell , El Mariachi play the respectable elements of Westerns and wriggle them in a newly room . With his “ one - mankind picture work party ” skill , Rodriguez mostly surpass .

# 1 . Sin City ( 2005 )

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  • 1 . sin City ( 2005 ) *

The domain of Frank Miller ’s Sin City is obtuse , unwell , and wild . It needed a movie maker like Rodriguez to impart its history to aliveness . This neo - noir offence anthology feature of speech three write up : “ The Hard Goodbye , ” “ The Big Fat Kill , ” and “ That Yellow Bastard . ” “ The Hard Goodbye ” play the scoop of Mickey Rourke as Marv . “ Big Fat Kill ” shew the crashing determination of a street warfare . And “ That Yellow Bastard ” cause a crimson picture with Bruce Willis ’s police detective . Each report is mob with a smell of moxie . Rodriguez stay close to Miller ’s reservoir textile , still function angstrom ALIR as stand by to its melanise - and - Edward D. White tinge pallet and mirror conniption to Miller ’s elaborated laughable illustration . It ’s one of the sterling and about congregation version of a graphical new into cinema . study future : democratic mainstream moving-picture show that were actually base on laughable Word