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Adrian Grünberg is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 14 march 1975

Adrian Grünberg

Adrian Grünberg
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 march 1975 (49 years)

Adrian Grunberg is an American film director and screenwriter.

Grunberg is known for directing and co-writing the film Get the Gringo. Grunberg has also worked as first assistant director on such films as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Edge of Darkness and Apocalypto.

Best films

Apocalypto
Apocalypto
(2006)
(Assistant Director) Frida
Frida
(2002)
(First Assistant Director) Amores Perros
Amores Perros
(2000)
(Assistant Director)

Usually with

Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson
(2 films)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu
(1 films)
J.J. Perry
J.J. Perry
(1 films)
Adrian Grünberg
Adrian Grünberg
(2 films)
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Adrian Grünberg (10 films)

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Actor

Man on Fire
Man on Fire (2004)
, 2h20
Directed by Tony Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony
Roles Docile Reporter (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.8484753.8484753.8484753.8484753.848475
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) looks for work and reunites with old friend and comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico. Because of the extremely high rate of kidnappings in Mexico City for ransom money, businessman Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony) hires Creasy through Rayburn to guard his nine-year-old daughter "Pita" (Dakota Fanning), intending to keep him on for only a short period in order to renew his kidnap and ransom insurance on Pita. Creasy suffers from alcoholism, depression and severe guilt as a result of his past work as a counterinsurgency fighter and assassin, and so works for Samuel at a rate far below what his experience would command. At first Creasy distances himself socially from Pita, but the two soon develop a friendship, which allows Creasy to overcome his demons and to act as a mentor and surrogate father-figure to the girl.

Director

Rambo: Last Blood
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
, 1h29
Directed by Adrian Grünberg, Adrian Grünberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Joaquín Cosío, Louis Mandylor
Rating61% 3.0565253.0565253.0565253.0565253.056525
Onze ans après les évènements en Birmanie, John Rambo vit dans l'ancien ranch de son père à Bowie, dans le comté de Cochise dans l'Arizona. Il gère les lieux avec sa vieille amie Maria Beltran et sa petite-fille, Gabrielle. Cette dernière se rend au Mexique, pensant y rencontrer son père biologique, mais elle est kidnappée par un Cartel de la drogue mexicain. Rambo va alors tenter de la sauver.
Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo (2012)
, 1h36
Directed by Adrian Grünberg, Adrian Grünberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Children's films
Actors Mel Gibson, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Peter Stormare, Dolores Heredia, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton
Rating68% 3.447173.447173.447173.447173.44717
The film opens with a getaway driver (Mel Gibson) and a wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American police toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican police officers Vasquez (Mario Zaragoza) and Romero (Gerardo Teracena). When they find over $2 million in the car, they incarcerate him in El Pueblito prison under false charges, keep the cash for themselves, and cremate the accomplice, who by then has died. As one of the only Americans incarcerated there, the driver becomes known as "the Gringo". El Pueblito proves surprising, operating more like a small ghetto than a prison. The Gringo quickly manages to work out the prison's criminal hierarchy and engages in petty thefts and robberies from some of the prison's less reputable businesses. One of these thefts is witnessed by an unnamed kid (Kevin Hernandez) who is living with his incarcerated mother (Dolores Heredia) and is protected by the prison's criminals. Curious, the Gringo presses him to explain why the criminals protect him, but the Kid refuses.

Scriptwriter

Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo (2012)
, 1h36
Directed by Adrian Grünberg, Adrian Grünberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Children's films
Actors Mel Gibson, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Peter Stormare, Dolores Heredia, Dean Norris, Bob Gunton
Rating68% 3.447173.447173.447173.447173.44717
The film opens with a getaway driver (Mel Gibson) and a wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American police toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican police officers Vasquez (Mario Zaragoza) and Romero (Gerardo Teracena). When they find over $2 million in the car, they incarcerate him in El Pueblito prison under false charges, keep the cash for themselves, and cremate the accomplice, who by then has died. As one of the only Americans incarcerated there, the driver becomes known as "the Gringo". El Pueblito proves surprising, operating more like a small ghetto than a prison. The Gringo quickly manages to work out the prison's criminal hierarchy and engages in petty thefts and robberies from some of the prison's less reputable businesses. One of these thefts is witnessed by an unnamed kid (Kevin Hernandez) who is living with his incarcerated mother (Dolores Heredia) and is protected by the prison's criminals. Curious, the Gringo presses him to explain why the criminals protect him, but the Kid refuses.

Director

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
, 1h58
Directed by Edward Zwick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Cobie Smulders, Tom Cruise, Aldis Hodge, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Danika Yarosh
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating60% 3.0483453.0483453.0483453.0483453.048345
Jack Reacher revient dans sa base militaire en Virginie pour y dîner avec une collègue, Susan Turner. Toutefois rendu sur place, il apprend que cette dernière a été arrêtée pour espionnage et que lui-même est accusé de plusieurs meurtres.
The Limits of Control
The Limits of Control (2009)
, 1h56
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Crime
Actors Isaac de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, John Hurt, Hiam Abbass
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating61% 3.098773.098773.098773.098773.09877
In an airport, Lone Man (Isaach de Bankolé) is being instructed on his mission by Creole (Alex Descas). The mission itself is left unstated and the instructions are cryptic, including such phrases as "Everything is subjective," "The universe has no center and no edges; reality is arbitrary," and "Use your imagination and your skills." After the meeting in the airport he travels to Madrid and then on to Seville, meeting several people in cafés and on trains along the way.
Apocalypto
Apocalypto (2006)
, 2h18
Directed by Mel Gibson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Rudy Youngblood, Mayra Sérbulo, Gerardo Taracena, María Isabel Díaz
Roles Assistant Director
Rating77% 3.8981753.8981753.8981753.8981753.898175
While hunting in the Mesoamerican rainforest, Jaguar Paw/Paksiw (Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of refugees fleeing warfare. The group's leader explains that their lands were ravaged and they seek a new beginning. He asks for permission to pass through the jungle. Flint Sky comments to his son that the visitors were sick with fear, and urges him to never allow fear to infect him.
Frida
Frida (2002)
, 2h3
Directed by Julie Taymor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Peinture, Politique, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas, Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Mía Maestro
Roles First Assistant Director
Rating73% 3.651073.651073.651073.651073.65107
Frida begins just before the traumatic accident Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) suffered at the age of 18 when a trolley bus collided with a motor bus she was riding. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries she sustained plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through convalescence, her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting. Throughout the film, a scene starts as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a live-action scene with actors.
Amores Perros
Amores Perros (2000)
, 2h33
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Adriana Barraza
Roles Assistant Director
Rating80% 4.04754.04754.04754.04754.0475
The film is constructed from three distinct stories linked by a car accident that brings the characters briefly together.
Men with Guns
Men with Guns (1998)
, 2h7
Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films about Latin American military dictatorships
Actors Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Damián Alcázar, Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody, Alejandro Springall
Roles Second Assistant Director
Rating75% 3.793333.793333.793333.793333.79333
Dr. Fuentes (Federico Luppi) is a medical professor/doctor near his retirement and his wife has recently died. He taught a group of seven -he views this as one of his greatest accomplishments- that trains young people to provide health care to impoverished citizens in the outlying hill country, where small agricultural communities struggle to survive. It is not until he begins his journey that he discovers a world much different than the one he had imagined existing for his students as he finds himself encountering guerrillas and soldiers.
Dance with the Devil
Dance with the Devil (1997)
, 2h6
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Origin Mexique
Genres Thriller, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Comedy horror films
Actors Rosie Perez, Javier Bardem, Harley Cross, Aimee Graham, James Gandolfini, Demián Bichir
Roles Second Second Assistant Director
Rating63% 3.1520453.1520453.1520453.1520453.152045
Perdita (Rosie Perez) is a tough, no-nonsense lady clad in a Tura Satana-style black outfit. She meets Romeo Dolorosa (Javier Bardem), a maniacal criminal who also happens to be an even more maniacal witch doctor. Romeo robs a bank but risks getting caught in order to force the Bank Teller to strip her shirt and reveal her large breasts. Once in the street, he hides his face from the cops by grabbing and french kissing a random woman on the street. Crossing the border into Mexico together, Perdita and Romeo become lovers and partners in crime as they kidnap a random Anglo-Saxon teenage couple in order to sacrifice them. Along the way they also hijack a truckload of human fetuses and try to evade a determined Drug Enforcement Administration officer (James Gandolfini).

Team

Amores Perros
Amores Perros (2000)
, 2h33
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Adriana Barraza
Roles Second Unit
Rating80% 4.04754.04754.04754.04754.0475
The film is constructed from three distinct stories linked by a car accident that brings the characters briefly together.