Gianfranco Brero

Acting

Gianfranco Brero

Born

1953-06-15 (73)

Place of birth

Lima, Peru

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Blindspot poster
7.4

A 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

Zero Hour poster
7.4

Zero 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

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

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

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

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

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

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

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

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 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

Cosas de amigos poster
3.5

When 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

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

2010s · 9 titles

Utopía poster
5.0

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

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

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

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

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

Papá X Tres poster
4.5

Rafael is 30 years old, divorced and father of three children. His life is even more complicated when his ex-wife announces that he will travel out of the country for 6 months and that he will have to take care of his 3 little kids.

Papá X Tres

2019

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

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

Rocanrol 68 poster
6.2

Manolo is an adolescent who dreams about making movies. It's 1968 and, among his friends, he spends his last year before entering university on the beach and listening rock music. But his life changes when he met a hippie young girl: Emma. Now, with the intention to win her, Manolo will start to make unlucky decitions.

Rocanrol 68

2013

2000s · 11 titles

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

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

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

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

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 lugar donde estuvo el paraíso poster
5.5

In 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

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

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

Bala perdida poster
5.2

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Bala perdida

2001

La prueba poster
6.5

Miranda begins the search for Ignacio, his father, who has lived in hiding for thirteen years when accused of corruption. Her goal is to find a blood donor compatible with her brother. The trip, which he undertakes with Saúl, a hydraulic engineer, will take him to Arequipa, where he will face his idea of ​​justice.

La prueba

2006

1990s · 5 titles

Series credits