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Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

4 films · 331 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20162025

Born 25 February 1981 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo is a Mexican actor. He is best known for roles in films such as Bless Me, Ultima and Cake, as well as the television program From Dusk till Dawn: The Series. He headlined as one of the titular characters in the 2016 remake The Magnificent Seven.

How their films are shot

Measured across 331 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Manuel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 65% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Manuel takes.

Time of day

Day65%
Night23%
Golden hour8%

Lighting

Natural58%
Low key25%
High key8%
Silhouette7%

Shot size

Medium36%
Wide32%
Closeup17%
Establishing8%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
Low angle13%
High angle7%
Top down4%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense26%
Lonely7%
Ominous5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 331 frames from Manuel Garcia-Rulfo's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.