Luis Llosa

Directing

Luis Llosa

Born

1951-01-01 (75)

Place of birth

Lima, Peru

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Luis Llosa Urquidi (born 1951) is a Peruvian film director. He is best known for his American feature films Sniper (1993), The Specialist (1994), and Anaconda (1997). Llosa began as a film critic and segued into producing and directing made-for-TV documentaries, including the highly regarded "The Gold of the Incas". He is the cousin of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, whose novel was adapted into Luis's film The Feast of the Goat (2005).

Known for

Anaconda poster
5.3

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

Anaconda

1997

The Specialist poster
6.0

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

The Specialist

1994

Sniper poster
6.2

Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller.

Sniper

1993

Fire on the Amazon poster
3.5

When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men responsible for the killing would be more than willing to murder again if it will keep them quiet.

Fire on the Amazon

1993

Crime Zone poster
4.2

In a post-nuclear future, crime has been eliminated in the city of Soleil through a strict class structure imposed upon the population. Two illegal young lovers are enticed into becoming criminals by a shady guy who promises them a way out of the city so they can continue their lives in peace.

Crime Zone

1988

Watchers III poster
4.1

A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.

Watchers III

1994

Behind the camera

Anaconda poster
5.3

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

Anaconda

1997

The Specialist poster
6.0

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

The Specialist

1994

Sniper poster
6.2

Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller.

Sniper

1993

Fire on the Amazon poster
3.5

When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men responsible for the killing would be more than willing to murder again if it will keep them quiet.

Fire on the Amazon

1993

Fire on the Amazon poster
3.5

When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men responsible for the killing would be more than willing to murder again if it will keep them quiet.

Fire on the Amazon

1993

Crime Zone poster
4.2

In a post-nuclear future, crime has been eliminated in the city of Soleil through a strict class structure imposed upon the population. Two illegal young lovers are enticed into becoming criminals by a shady guy who promises them a way out of the city so they can continue their lives in peace.

Crime Zone

1988

Crime Zone poster
4.2

In a post-nuclear future, crime has been eliminated in the city of Soleil through a strict class structure imposed upon the population. Two illegal young lovers are enticed into becoming criminals by a shady guy who promises them a way out of the city so they can continue their lives in peace.

Crime Zone

1988

Watchers III poster
4.1

A top-secret experiment spawns two highly intelligent life-forms: Einstein, a golden retriever with an IQ of 175; and The Outsider, a deformed monstrosity that exists to kill... and avenge its creators. When the Outsider escapes into the jungles of South America, the government sends in some ex-military convicts to catch the beast. But what starts out as a high-speed chase ends up in bloody carnage. Only Einstein knows the Outsider's motives, and only the canine can outsmart the creature. Now, it's a battle of beasts as man's best friend confronts man's worst nightmare.

Watchers III

1994

Hour of the Assassin poster
4.1

Fiero is hired to assassinate the newly-elected civilian president of San Pedro. His employers are a group of generals, threatened by the liberal sympathies of the new president-elect. The generals, having killed Fiero's father years ago, trick Fiero into thinking he is working for the leftist People's Party. Meanwhile, a CIA agent is sent stop to the assassination. It's a race against time as the agent must stop the HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN.

Hour of the Assassin

1987

Hour of the Assassin poster
4.1

Fiero is hired to assassinate the newly-elected civilian president of San Pedro. His employers are a group of generals, threatened by the liberal sympathies of the new president-elect. The generals, having killed Fiero's father years ago, trick Fiero into thinking he is working for the leftist People's Party. Meanwhile, a CIA agent is sent stop to the assassination. It's a race against time as the agent must stop the HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN.

Hour of the Assassin

1987

Aventuras Prohibidas poster
NR

The film revolves around the transgressive behaviors of young people from Lima who suffer the contamination of the social environment in the hope of seeing the achievement of their small ambitions. Three episodes.

Aventuras Prohibidas

1980

The Feast of the Goat poster
5.4

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

The Feast of the Goat

2006

The Feast of the Goat poster
5.4

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

The Feast of the Goat

2006

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon poster
4.4

Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter's marriage. Not only must he brave the dangers of the Amazonian jungles, but also the bounty hunter hot on his trail.

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon

1993

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon poster
4.4

Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter's marriage. Not only must he brave the dangers of the Amazonian jungles, but also the bounty hunter hot on his trail.

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon

1993

New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 poster
3.7

In the 21st Century, Tony Ricks was a criminal who was executed for his crimes. In the distant year 2020, he is revived in a freak accident, and must infiltrate a futuristic prison and retrieve a powerful bioweapon in exchange for his freedom... and his life.

New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020

1994

Welcome to Oblivion poster
NR

The year is 2058, in Kansas City. The world has suffered a nuclear disaster. Mutants live in the cities, confined to reservations. Everyone covets a mineral called zirconium. Fragments of this film were used in "Ultra Warrior," along with fragments from other films, forming a very peculiar conglomeration, edited by Kevin Tent, who would later win an Oscar for editing.

Welcome to Oblivion

1989

No artwork available
NR

A nearly forgotten Peruvian film, "La Chicha está Fermentando" (1983), produced by Lucho Llosa. Haydée Cáceres, Ramón García, Jesús Morales, "Eleuterio," "La Juanacha," Hugo Loza, young actors, and the indigenous man Mayta singing, all starred together in this Peruvian film that, for some reason, doesn't appear in the historical records of Peruvian cinema. It never reached theaters. It was only broadcast on television... and then disappeared. As if it had never existed. It's a forgotten, overlooked film, remembered by few. But today it has been rescued.

La chicha está fermentando

1983

Ultra Warrior poster
3.6

After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must fight a battle for the ages against the evil minions of The Bishop.

Ultra Warrior

1990

To Die Standing poster
8.0

Willis, a hardened DEA agent from the streets of New York, is given his toughest assignment -- to team up with a Colombian cop, Delgado, and find the connection of a drug shipments and the U.S. government.

To Die Standing

1991

Tattoos in Memory poster
NR

A boy from Ayacucho becomes an orphan and, following his older brother joins the Shining Path, where he is trained in violence. Captured by the Army, he finds a second chance as a soldier.

Tattoos in Memory

2024

Owners of Time poster
NR

A scientist and a group of kids travel with a time machine through the beginning moments of Dominican history.

Owners of Time

2024

Owners of Time poster
NR

A scientist and a group of kids travel with a time machine through the beginning moments of Dominican history.

Owners of Time

2024

No artwork available
NR

Due to a love conflict, two friends challenge each other to swim in a rough sea.

Día Domingo 1956

1979

No artwork available
NR

Conversation with the painter Fernando de Szyszlo about his pictorial work.

Visita a Szyslo

1974