
Gianfranco Brero
Actor · b. 1953 · Lima, Peru
Movies23
Movie7.2ComedyDramaThe Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.
Movie6.8DramaA meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive, albeit not sheltered correctly.
Movie5.0A savage fire scorches a nightclub in Lima, killing 29 young people. Julián, a journalist, wants to get beyond the official story. Based on true events.
Utopía
2018 · 8 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaBased on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.
Movie5.7DramaRomanceThe story of Ernesto Pimentel’s life, raised humbly after losing his mother, inspires him to create the iconic character La Chola Chabuca, an Andean figure who captivates all of Peru with her colourful skirts and high spirits.
Chabuca
2024 · 7 votes
Movie7.5DramaComedyPresident Fujimori's government is on its way out, and the citizens of Peru are struggling to get by, often engaging in unscrupulous means to get ahead--or just to make a buck. Rafo is a struggling filmmaker who supports his girlfriend Laura. He encounters a Spanish con artist posing as an executive for a major phone company, the Spaniard draws Rafo into an elaborate scam.
Movie6.5DramaComedyPilar, Charito, Meche and Cristina are four dear friends who love timba. When they learn that one of them has cancer, they make a plan to take a trip north.
Viejas amigas
2024 · 1 votes
Movie2.0DramaThrillerThe Vigil is a thriller film that tells the story of the relation established between two opposite characters that share an intense and strange night in today's Lima. Edgardo Chocano, a westernized Peruvian intellectual of upper class and a violent and instinctive girl of the lower class that is escaping the threat of a gang of criminals. It's main theme deals with the possibility of an understanding between this two contradicting characters.
Movie5.5DramaIn Iquitos, during the era of military dictatorships, a consul must face the arrival of a daughter he does not see in years and the stalking of a military collaborator diplomat who comes to discover his protection to a deserter pilot.
El lugar donde estuvo el paraíso
2002 · 2 votes
Movie5.5HorrorThrillerSilvia, a beautiful 45-year-old widow, is obsessed with having a child and finds in attractive but naive Mercedes the perfect candidate to bear it. Silvia kindly offers her a job and a room in her house, and then manipulates her into seducing a young man named Jaime. They soon fall in love and Mercedes becomes pregnant. Silvia will do anything in her power to keep the baby, even if it means leaving a couple of bodies behind.
MovieDramaThrillerWhen Adriana, the mother, becomes convinced that a perfect family consists of only two children, the arrival of a new baby, Tomas, turns their world upside down. Ignoring Tomas entirely, the family is plunged into a surreal struggle where every member must fight for their place.
Movie6.7DramaCrimePeru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications.
Movie6.2DramaThe movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.
Movie2.8HistoryAnimationA young boy travels back to the 17th century to battle pirates off the coast of Peru.
Piratas en el Callao
2005 · 18 votes
Movie6.1DramaThree lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.
Movie7.2ActionAdventureThrough out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Movie6.0DramaComedyFour middle class couples ranging from late teens to middle aged. All they can think about is sex but will they make it through the day?
Un día sin sexo
2005 · 4 votes
Movie10.0DramaAlejo, an archaeologist from Lima, Peru, travels to Newmarket, Canada, where his Peruvian family migrated years ago. It is his first time back in two decades and since the death of his mother.
Norte
2019 · 1 votes
Movie5.6CrimeDramaPassion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
Movie3.5ComedyWhen a man tells his friends that he is gay and asks for the appropriate emotional support, one of them, the most conservative, decides to try to reverse the situation. From there, a series of comic situations are unleashed that will take the group through different emotional stages that will help them reinvent friendship.
Cosas de amigos
2022 · 4 votes
MovieComedyJavi Fuentes, a talk show host, loses his sense of humour after his father's death. He is replaced by an unbearable influencer and hires Alfonsina, a stand-up comedian, to regain his spark and save the show.
Movie2.2AdventureComedyFollowing the crazy advice of two shamans, an aspiring chef appeals to an incredible resource to win a national cooking competition: he publicly commits to personally dive to the bottom of the sea, find a sleeping shark, wake it up and turn it into a ceviche.
Cebiche de Tiburón
2017 · 4 votes
Movie8.0AdventureDramaA mestizo (mixed race) Spanish and Indian soldier returns to Peru from Europe in 1618 to find a document that can prove he is not illegitimate.
El bien esquivo
2001 · 1 votes
Series2
TV7.4CrimeDramaA vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
Blindspot
2015 · 2.6K votes
TV7.4DocumentaryDramaZero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world.
Zero Hour
2004 · 9 votes