Carlos Gassols

Acting

Carlos Gassols

Born 1929-11-06 · Lima, Peru

Carlos Ernesto Gassols Eizaguirre (born November 6, 1929) is a Peruvian actor, writer, and film director.

Acting credits

Atacada: la teoría del dolor poster
7.3

A young woman is sexually assaulted by a powerful businessman, starting a public trial in which she will have to endure the abuse of those who do not want justice to be made.

Atacada: la teoría del dolor

2015

Inside Down Basement poster
7.0

This is the endless story about an old couple lost at the end of their last days. The Oldman seems a baby who just eats, sleeps and watches television. The Oldlady seems a mum who cooks, cleans and speaks to him. This old couple could live anywhere in the world. Their country is death. Their only world is a long wait. The Oldlady has taken control of both lives because she is in much better mental and physical conditions than him. Day after day the Oldlady plans and organizes different ways to kill themselves. But for the moment she is not shooting well. Days will keep following until a small mistake or the correct shoot end the sadness of this harsh wait.

Inside Down Basement

2008

The Cleaner poster
6.7

A forensic cleaner, responsible for the removal of human corpses, has never been able to relate with people or life. Suddenly, he will become accountable for an 8-year-old orphan who has been left behind in the middle of a mysterious epidemic crisis in Lima.

The Cleaner

2013

Reportaje a la muerte poster
7.5

Two journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, cover violent incidents during a riot in a prison for common criminals. Television broadcasting live allows the rioters to see themselves as main characters. Our journalists come to understand, after a series of conflicts, the phenomenon in which they are participating, they are fueling the violence.

Reportaje a la muerte

1993

Fallen from Heaven poster
6.0

An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.

Fallen from Heaven

1990

Red Ink poster
6.7

Peru, 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.

Red Ink

2000

El bien esquivo poster
8.0

A 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

No artwork available
NR

Hospitalized, Mr. Edmundo has lost the only inheritance his father left him: a gold watch steeped in history. Certain that his comatose neighbor stole it, the elderly man will do anything to recover his treasure.

Los Herederos

2005

October poster
6.7

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found. While Clemente is looking for the girl's mother, Sofía cares for the baby and looks after the moneylender's house. With the arrival of these beings in his life, Clemente has the opportunity to reconsider his emotional relations with people

October

2010

Good Old Boys poster
6.4

Balo, Villarán and Domingo are lifelong friends in their 80s, attending the funeral of their fourth comrade, Quique. On a whim, and fueled by their animosity towards the departed's shrewish wife, they steal the urn containing the ashes and are thrust into a series of misadventures.

Good Old Boys

2014

Behind the Window poster
NR

Iván is a blind man who lives with his wife, Mercedes. They lead a quiet and peaceful life, but an event is about to change everything. Iván will undergo an operation that will restore his sight, something he has always longed for. However, little by little, he will discover that the world he is about to see hides a dark secret.

Behind the Window

2009

Eleven Males poster
7.0

Eleven football-loving friends participate in a championship playing against a professional team, but this will lead to many problems and complications.

Eleven Males

2017

What the Eye Doesn't See poster
7.2

Through 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.

What the Eye Doesn't See

2003

Eleven Males 2 poster
7.5

Eleven friends face the kidnapper of their children on the soccer field. Only a victory will bring them back to their families.

Eleven Males 2

2019

Crossing a Shadow poster
6.2

The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.

Crossing a Shadow

2007

Motor y Motivo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Motor y Motivo

2009