
Birthday:
08-29-1965
(59 years)
Birthplace:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Biography
Miguel Arteta (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican director.
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Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
Act like Self
event2013
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A documentary about the influential independent film production company The Shooting Gallery.
In Good Company
Act like Globecom Technician
event2004 star_border 6
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Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.
See This Movie
Act like Festival Panelist
event2004 star_border 5
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Two bumbling but determined three-day film school graduates enter the Montreal World Film Festival with a feature film that doesn't exist.
Digging for Fire
Act like Bartender
event2015 star_border 5.1
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Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Youth in Revolt
Act like Illegal Immigrant #2
event2009 star_border 6.2
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As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart -- and bed.
Indie Sex
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 5.2
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Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.
The Good Girl
Director (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.2
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A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Chuck & Buck
Director (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 5.9
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Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.
Cedar Rapids
Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5.9
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A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Star Maps
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.6
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Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 6.2
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Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?
Director (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6
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A man with a clipboard asks passersby a survey question: "Are you the favorite person of anybody?" He has a scale, from "very certain" on down. His manner is open. He offers oranges to one respondent. He talks, one at a time, to three people. Their answers, however brief, are revealing.
YES DAY
Executive Producer (1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.7
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A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.
Beatriz at Dinner
Director (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.8
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Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.
Where the Wild Things Are
Thanks (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.5
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Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
Duck Butter
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 5.4
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Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.
Criminology 101
Director (1 ep.)
event2003
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A criminal lawyer attempts to solve cases by hiring two two law school grads.
Like a Boss
Director (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.3
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Two female friends with very different ideals decide to start a beauty company together. One is more practical, while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.
The Motel
Producer (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.4
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Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.
Q & A
Location Assistant (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 5.8
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A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
Chinatown Film Project
Director (1 ep.)
event2009
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Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants.
Forever
Director (1 ep.)
event2018
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June and Oscar live a comfortable but very predictable suburban wedded life when suddenly they find themselves in a completely otherworldly situation, raising questions about love and marriage in the afterlife.
Snoops
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7
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Snoops is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC. The series, which aired from September 26, 1999 to December 19, 1999, was created by David E. Kelley. Snoops came about during the height of Kelley's fame, with both The Practice and Ally McBeal sustaining large audiences.
Cracking Up
Director (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 5
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Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of the psychiatrist, Dr. Bollas, are comic allusions to Christopher Bollas, a psychoanalyst, and to his book Cracking UP.
Time of Your Life
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.7
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Sarah Reeves Merrin adjusts to her new job and new life in New York City, while trying to learn more about her biological parents.
Six Feet Under
Director (6 ep.)
event2001 star_border 8.1
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When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.
American Horror Story
Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 8.1
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An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
New Girl
Director (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.4
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Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8
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An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
The Office
Director (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 8.6
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The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Freaks and Geeks
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 8.2
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High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Ugly Betty
Director (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.3
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Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. The magazine, however, is in flux, with power-hungry executives vying for dominance. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief. He hires Betty as Daniel’s assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job. After a tough start, in which Daniel tries to force Betty into quitting by treating her terribly, he realizes her worth and the two pair up to be an effective team.
Enlightened
Director (4 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7
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After a very public breakdown and a subsequent philosophical awakening in rehabilitation, Amy tries to get her life back together.
House of Lies
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.6
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Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.
The New Normal
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6.1
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Los Angeles couple Bryan and David have successful careers and a loving relationship and are ready for a baby. Just as they start to worry that they will never be blessed with parenthood, they meet Goldie, a waitress who has just moved to California with her precocious eight-year-old daughter to escape from her closed-minded grandmother and a life without a future. The guys quickly work out a deal with Goldie to become their surrogate, and in the process, the little group forms a unique family unit of its own.
How to Make It in America
Director (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.3
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Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam's cousin Rene, who is trying to market his own high-energy drink, and their well-connected friend Domingo, the burgeoning entrepreneurs set out to make it big, encountering obstacles along the way that will require all their ingenuity to overcome.
Famous in Love
Executive Producer (20 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.8
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Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing her college workload.
Getting On
Director (2 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.3
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Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
Succession
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 8.3
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Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Room 104
Writer (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.8
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An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances and quirks.
The Morning Show
Director (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.8
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A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
The Carrie Diaries
Director (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.3
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Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.
Grace and Frankie
Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.7
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Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
Nurse Jackie
Director (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7
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Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.
Forever
Director (2 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.4
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June and Oscar live a comfortable but very predictable wedded life when suddenly they find themselves in a completely unexpected situation, raising questions about love and marriage.
The Big C
Director (2 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.2
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A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Florida Man
Director (7 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.6
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A disgraced cop in debt is forced to return to his home state of Florida for a shady mission only to get swept up in a wild — and deadly — treasure hunt.
Loot
Director (2 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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After divorcing her husband of 20 years, Molly Novak must figure out what to do with her $87 billion settlement. She decides to reengage with her charitable foundation and reconnect with the real world—finding herself along the way.
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