Luis Ernesto Franco

Acting

Luis Ernesto Franco

Born 1983-12-21 · Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico

Luis Ernesto Franco, born December 21, 1983, is a Mexican actor, writer, producer and model. He is one of the founders of the production company Los Weros Films.

Acting credits

Drunk Angry Idiot poster
5.4

A comedy about alcoholism that follows the relationship between Mateo and his best friend, who always gets drunk.

Drunk Angry Idiot

2018

What We May Become poster
6.0

A male student begins a torrid affair with his female teacher, but she soon realizes that the relationship won't get them anywhere.

What We May Become

2018

El Garabato poster
6.5

The story of a naive young man, provincial and not very experienced, to whom the circumstances of destiny, when crossing with the beautiful Frida, lead him to mature with a single blow. Rodolfo helps Frida in a car accident while she orders him to deliver an envelope. There begins the desperate flight of this innocent man fighting for his life, persecuted by thugs -who want to recover the contents of the envelope- and by the police -who seeks him for being a suspect in the death of an important diplomat.

El Garabato

2008

Dad Wanted poster
7.5

What does a thrill-seeker tween girl do when her mom forbids her to enter a BMX race? Cast an actor with nothing to lose to play her approving dad.

Dad Wanted

2020

Todavía Conmigo poster
NR

After Mariana's tragic death, Daniel embarks on a moving journey from Tijuana to La Paz in search of closure. Through breathtaking landscapes and intimate conversations, he confronts his deepest emotions and discovers that the most difficult journey is within himself.

Todavía Conmigo

2024

Colosio poster
7.0

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.

Colosio

2012

Two Plus Two poster
6.5

Sara and Enrique's marriage is going through a monotonous crisis he's completely clueless about. Fortunately, Sara hears from Lucy a secret that might be the answer to saving her relationship: Lucy and Ricardo practice polygamy.

Two Plus Two

2022

I Don't Know Whether to Slit My Wrists or Leave Them Long poster
6.7

Julia, Lucas, Aaron, Nora and Lola live in a building in chaotic Mexico City. Everything changes when Felix moves to the unoccupied apartment next to them. Félix comes to know their neighbors and this changes the dynamics of the lives of the characters.

I Don't Know Whether to Slit My Wrists or Leave Them Long

2013

Perfect Obedience poster
6.5

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.

Perfect Obedience

2014

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68' poster
6.5

As Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'

2013

Amar poster
3.8

Five stories blend with love, sex, the emptiness of being unloved, passion and desire: Carlos and Susana go to some uncle´s apartment to make love. Meanwhile, Benito, an 80-year-old, performs a serenade to his wife. His neighbor Adela is told that her mother has Alzheimer and that she will be relocated since the Buenos Aires building she lives in will be demolished. Amado catches his son Carlos stealing his money. Gabriel asks Martha´s parents for her hand in marriage but they condition them to get married at their favorite church. And Patricia, 40, a creative agent, sexually abuses Joel, who directs a beer commercial.

Amar

2009

Grandma's Last Wishes poster
7.3

When the grandmother decides that it is time to put the family affairs in order, the fights begin to inherit the house. (A sequel to Grandma's Wedding.)

Grandma's Last Wishes

2020

Love on a Weekend poster
4.0

One city. Three days, three social classes, three love songs, human beings who coexist without touching one another, joined by mirages and hopes. Their struggles to survive are individual and secret; there are no winners or losers. The seeming order is maintained and a weekend begins.

Love on a Weekend

2010

¡He matado a mi marido! poster
5.4

A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring his recent Pritzker Prize, now she must survive the pain of heartbreak and a night of celebration, without being found out.

¡He matado a mi marido!

2018

2033 poster
4.2

In 2033, Mexico City is a hot, mechanical and chaotic megacity ruled by the military and a tyrannical government. It is an oppressed society with its religious faith and liberty of expression stolen. Pablo, the main character, is a young finantial yuppie that gets shelter in drugs and alcohol. He leaves his privileged life in order to help the unprotected and destroy the system that controls the population.

2033

2009

Grandma's Wedding poster
6.9

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca to celebrate their grandmother’s wedding.

Grandma's Wedding

2019

Pamela: secretos de una pasión poster
5.5

This is the story of the problems of a young 21-year-old woman who, in the context of modern Mexico, tries to escape reality with the false relief granted by drugs and casual sex. Pamela gets involved with an older man called Victor, in an unboundedly passionate relationship that leads them to invent a double life for themselves in order to cross over the boundaries and explore their deepest fantasies. They set off in the company of Miguel, a young and sensual Spaniard, on a trip to Pie de la Cuesta.

Pamela: secretos de una pasión

2008

The Misfits poster
6.9

A lonely boy did not want to live until he meets a girl who pretends to be a star performer. An arrogant lawyer gets a lesson of life to get stuck in an elevator with a single servant. Through the Internet, a computer lover enters into a blind date, the stranger might be too known. Five elders decide to kill boredom and to get excited about planning to rob a bank.

The Misfits

2011

El cumple de la abuela poster
6.5

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca, to celebrate their grandmother's birthday. One pretends to have a boyfriend she just met. Another has a girlfriend who is in love with one of his brothers. Another can not stand the way the grandmother treats him but he has been afraid of her for so long...until now.

El cumple de la abuela

2015

Behind the camera

What We May Become poster
6.0

A male student begins a torrid affair with his female teacher, but she soon realizes that the relationship won't get them anywhere.

What We May Become

2018

What We May Become poster
6.0

A male student begins a torrid affair with his female teacher, but she soon realizes that the relationship won't get them anywhere.

What We May Become

2018

Behind the Power poster
5.2

What would you do if one day you open the door of your house and a man you've never seen hits you, ties you to a chair, pulls out a bottle of tequila and start counting you his life? In addition, little by little, you start to realize that this seemingly odd man knows everything about you and his main intent is to give you a shot in the head. Based on true events, this is what happens to Michael, an attorney/deputy happily married to a privileged life who in less than an hour starts to lose everything. Perhaps this stranger comes to present him something that everybody wants to have: Power. "Behind the Power" is a thriller that will make you question your country, your life and your heart.

Behind the Power

2013

4 Moons poster
7.2

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

4 Moons

2014

Bajo Tortura poster
NR

In 1992, the brother-in-law and the sister of Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd were murdered and he was captured by the authorities of Mexico City as a possible responsible of the crime. Through torture, he was forced to sign and confession. That’s how he ran into corruption and the brutality of the Mexican justice, with no more evidence than the confession, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

Bajo Tortura

2013

Grandma's Wedding poster
6.9

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca to celebrate their grandmother’s wedding.

Grandma's Wedding

2019

The Day Everything Changed poster
7.4

Mario, used to be a man who had planned a happy future with his wife; until one night, a robbery ends up taking her life. From that moment on, his only objective is now to avenge on those who took away his happiness.

The Day Everything Changed

2024

The Misfits poster
6.9

A lonely boy did not want to live until he meets a girl who pretends to be a star performer. An arrogant lawyer gets a lesson of life to get stuck in an elevator with a single servant. Through the Internet, a computer lover enters into a blind date, the stranger might be too known. Five elders decide to kill boredom and to get excited about planning to rob a bank.

The Misfits

2011

Beyond The Mountain poster
6.9

Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with Carmela's love, one of his usual clients. One day, this perfect bubble of dissatisfaction pops when his mother dies. The tragic event, forces him to face his past and to make a radical decision: find the father that abandoned them, with the intention to kill him.

Beyond The Mountain

2019

El cumple de la abuela poster
6.5

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca, to celebrate their grandmother's birthday. One pretends to have a boyfriend she just met. Another has a girlfriend who is in love with one of his brothers. Another can not stand the way the grandmother treats him but he has been afraid of her for so long...until now.

El cumple de la abuela

2015