Gianfranco Brero

Acting

Gianfranco Brero

Born 1953-06-15 · Lima, Peru

Acting credits

Chabuca poster
5.7

The 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

Utopía poster
4.3

A 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

Bad Shelter poster
6.8

A 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.

Bad Shelter

1986

Con Game poster
7.5

President 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.

Con Game

2004

Don't Tell Anyone poster
6.0

Based 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.

Don't Tell Anyone

1998

Viejas amigas poster
6.5

Pilar, 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

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services poster
7.2

The 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.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services

1999

Quadrilateral poster
NR

When 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.

Quadrilateral

2025

The Vigil poster
2.0

The 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.

The Vigil

2010

Piratas en el Callao poster
2.8

A young boy travels back to the 17th century to battle pirates off the coast of Peru.

Piratas en el Callao

2005

The Womb poster
5.5

Silvia, 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.

The Womb

2014

Sebastina: The Curse poster
6.0

Based on a story titled "The Woman and the Tiger" featured in Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma about a trip of a group of friends that ends up haunted by a mysterious spirit.

Sebastina: The Curse

2019

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

Norte poster
10.0

Alejo, 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

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

Under the Skin poster
5.6

Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.

Under the Skin

1996

The Last Laugh poster
NR

Javi 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.

The Last Laugh

2024

The Inheritance of Flora poster
NR

Flora Tristán flees to Peru for her inheritance, but her uncle leaves her penniless by altering the will. Returning to France, she becomes a writer and advocate for workers' and women's rights. Despite romantic entanglements, she chooses to focus on her work, leaving behind her love life.

The Inheritance of Flora

2024

No artwork available
NR

On a busy workday, the president of the most important advertising agency in Peru receives a visit from a childhood "friend" who will propose the business of his life.

Un Tal Nacho

2006

The Gospel of the Flesh poster
6.1

Three 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.

The Gospel of the Flesh

2013

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

Un día sin sexo poster
6.0

Four 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

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

Cebiche de Tiburón poster
2.2

Following 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