Guillermo Francella

Acting

Guillermo Francella

Born

1955-02-14 (71)

Place of birth

Villa del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Guillermo Francella (born February 14, 1955) is an Argentine actor and comedian. Apart from being a television performer, he also has had a long theatrical and film career. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and popular actors in his country.

Known for

Casados con Hijos poster
8.1

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.

Casados con Hijos

2005

The Secret in Their Eyes poster
8.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

The Secret in Their Eyes

2009

The Boss poster
8.2

Eliseo is the superintendent of an upscale building. On the surface, is cordial and docile in his role, but underneath Eliseo believes himself the omnipotent figure of the community — meddling in the affairs of residents and pulling strings as he sees fit. Eliseo's only concern is protecting his job, which comes under threat by a proposed pool project.

The Boss

2022

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera! poster
8.0

It tells, in a comedic tone, the story of the Scarpelli triplets (Guillermo Francella), Marcelo, Enzo, and Luis. Marcelo is a charming, womanizing hustler who aspires to succeed as an actor. Enzo is an unscrupulous office worker capable of anything to get money, and Luis, divorced with four children, is a serious and obsessive man responsible for running the family restaurant. Three brothers, very similar on the outside but very different on the inside, will find themselves united by various twists and turns in which they will share hilarious situations of entanglement.

Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera!

1999

The Clan poster
6.8

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

The Clan

2015

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

The Heist of the Century poster
7.7

In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as what happened afterwards. This is their story.

The Heist of the Century

2020

Homo Argentum poster
6.1

The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.

Homo Argentum

2025

The Extortion poster
7.2

An experienced commercial pilot is forced to collaborate with his country's intelligence services to avoid being punished for a serious fault he committed on the job. He is quickly plunged into an underworld of intrigue and extortion that will put his life at risk and he will pay a very high price to escape from it.

The Extortion

2023

Wolf Beach poster
5.8

Manu works at a beach bar. Klaus won't leave the last beach chair. What seems like a clash between opposites turns suspicious when Manu doubts Klaus's presence is coincidental. Tension builds until Klaus makes a disturbing offer.

Wolf Beach

2025

All Hail poster
6.4

A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.

All Hail

2022

Muchachos poster
8.3

Using home videos from fans from across the globe and never-before-seen drone footage obtained during the victory parade in Buenos Aires, on streets dyed white and sky blue. The film invites viewers to immerse themselves in the world's most football obsessed nation, Argentina, to relive the emotional rollercoaster that was the country’s 2022 World Cup victory in Qatar and the record breaking celebrations that followed.

Muchachos

2023

BIZAPOP poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

BIZAPOP

2023

Hermanos, una historia de sangre poster
10.0

Documentary that follows filmmaker Mariano Cohn's struggle to find the truth behind the mysterious death of his brother in 2015.

Hermanos, una historia de sangre

2024

2010s · 10 titles

The Clan poster
6.8

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

The Clan

2015

Lion's Heart poster
6.9

Ivana Cornejo is just getting used to being single again after her divorce three years ago. After an exasperating call from her ex-husband, she throws her cell phone away. Fortunately, the man who finds it calls her to return it, and to her amusement they have an instant rapport. The man on the other end of the phone is León Godoy, a renowned architect with a charming voice and a charismatic personality. They schedule a date so that he can return the cell phone. When León arrives, Ivana is surprised: he is everything she had imagined, except for one unexpected and startling detail... he’s only 4'5" tall.

Lion's Heart

2013

My Masterpiece poster
7.3

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day, Arturo comes up with a solution to all their problems, but the plan they concoct turns out to be crazier and riskier than they originally expected.

My Masterpiece

2018

The Mystery of Happiness poster
6.2

Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio suddenly vanishes, Santiago and Eugenio’s wife, join forces to look for him. What they discover is not what they set out to find, and their shared journey becomes a surprising and lighthearted meditation on friendship, love, and loyalty.

The Mystery of Happiness

2014

Those Who Love, Hate poster
6.4

Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.

Those Who Love, Hate

2017

Animal poster
6.6

Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.

Animal

2018

Los Marziano poster
5.5

Los Marziano reconstruye la oportunidad de un reencuentro entre dos hermanos tras un largo período de distanciamiento. Se trata de un relato que trabaja con profunda inteligencia -y con rasgos de comedia- el universo de las relaciones familiares.

Los Marziano

2011

Conexión Real poster
NR

A short film about cellphone use

Conexión Real

2016

El vagoneta en el mundo del cine poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

El vagoneta en el mundo del cine

2012

¡Atraco! poster
5.9

In 1956, after the assault on a jewelry by two Argentines thieves, starts a police operation that ends with the arrest and imprisonment of offenders. However, the loot doesn´t appear, and his search will unleash a complex plot of complicity.

¡Atraco!

2012

2000s · 10 titles

The Secret in Their Eyes poster
8.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

The Secret in Their Eyes

2009

Rudo & Cursi poster
7.2

Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.

Rudo & Cursi

2008

Incorregibles poster
6.0

Pedro, an inexperienced conman, decides to rob a bank. When he tries to escape, the branch is surrounded by police. His hostage turns out to be Pablo, the husband of the daughter of the bank's owner. After Pedro and Pablo leave the crime scene, Pedro demands ransom. But the money never arrives, since Pablo's father-in-law decides not to pay and, to make matters worse, instead sends an assassin to kill off Pedro.

Incorregibles

2007

A Boyfriend for My Wife poster
6.3

El Tenso does not know how to face his ill-tempered wife, Tana, to tell her that he wants to separate. Carlos, a friend of Tenso, suggests him to invert the situation and cause Tana to leave him by hiring Cuervo Flores, an irresistible seducer, to try and charm his wife until she falls in love with him.

A Boyfriend for My Wife

2008

Dad must be crazy! poster
6.8

On their scond honeymoon, a couple travels to the beaches of the Dominican Republic to reignite their marriage

Dad must be crazy!

2005

Zombie Nation poster
2.9

A psycho cop has a habit for pulling over random women and taking them to an abandoned warehouse, where he tortures and kills them. He gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.

Zombie Nation

2004

A Day in Paradise poster
5.4

A cartoonist and painter who can not stand out and make a living, among other things, as a photographer of news magazines and a beautiful young woman who comes to Buenos Aires from inside the country to try to make it as a model and actress, living a love as passionate as fraught with disagreements.

A Day in Paradise

2003

Daddy Is My Idol poster
5.7

Pablo is a former professional skier retired due to a health problem, who lives with Martín, his son. To celebrate his son's birthday, Pablo takes him to Sierra Nevada, Spain where they will meet Ángela and Vicky, mother and daughter respectively, where a friendship and something more will emerge.

Daddy Is My Idol

2000

Part-Time Lifeguards III poster
3.8

Three friends at a beach resort work together to stop a gang from making a potion that can manipulate people's desires.

Part-Time Lifeguards III

2006

Revelaciones poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Revelaciones

2009

1990s · 7 titles

El Travieso poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

El Travieso

1991

Yo tenía un plazo fijo poster
8.3

Two friends are looking to earn easy money by gathering people to help them deposit a large sum of money in a fixed term of seven days, to live on the interests, which are higher the greater the amount deposited. This has immediate consequences on the lifestyle of the characters, who are increasingly ambitious. Portrait of the Argentine middle class in full hyperinflation, when financial speculation was the order of the day by the man in the street.

Yo tenía un plazo fijo

1990

The Extermineitors 2: The Dragon Vengance poster
6.5

The Dragon is in prison ready to escape and take revenge on those who stopped. This will help a mafia organization that moves in the world of illegal betting related to martial arts fights worldwide and also linked to drug trafficking. In prison, the Dragon is a sinister character, McClain (Randolph McClain), an American imprisoned for killing their opponents. But once released sent to compete in the World Martial Arts Championship with Hector Echavarria, Argentine and world champion wrestler.

The Extermineitors 2: The Dragon Vengance

1990

The Damned Rib poster
6.0

Four women decide to go together to have fun at a men's strip show. On the trip, the taxi driver pays attention to their conversation where each one tells the others her ideal of a man. Since then, he decides to pass himself off as the ideal man.

The Damned Rib

1999

An Argentinian in New York poster
5.2

An Argentinian girl, about to turn 18, leaves on a study trip to New York, and then decides to stay there. Her caring father goes after her to get her back before her mother can get too worried.

An Argentinian in New York

1998

Extermineitors IV: As Twin Brothers poster
5.5

The Colonel of the Extermineitors has discovered that McClain (McClain Randolph), old enemy of the organization, crime has left to live quietly in Iguazu Falls and wants working for him. That's how you develop a plan for Guillermo (Francella) perform McClain recruiting mission. The Colonel knows that William has a twin brother who never met and convinces him that the former offender is his lost brother ... Installed in Niagara, evading the thief who wants to kill Nico, an orphan who is in charge of William, MacClain convince that he is his twin brother, getting together to Buenos Aires to join the group of the Extermineitors.

Extermineitors IV: As Twin Brothers

1992

Extermineitors III: The Final Fight poster
5.8

This time, the "exterminators" must confront a secret organization conducting a diabolical experiment: transforming a fighter into an indestructible man through a series of bionic implants. To investigate their scheme, Colonel Morris assigns Guillermo and Héctor Echavarria, but they are joined by Nico, an orphaned boy eager to become part of the Eagle Command.

Extermineitors III: The Final Fight

1991

1980s · 9 titles

Part-Time Lifeguards II: The Crazy Beach poster
6.6

Emilio and Guillermo are two sports club employees, that are fired due to their incompetence at work. They overhead that their favourite girls are going on vacation to Mar del Plata, and they decide to go. Once there they go to the casino and lose all their money, they find jobs as lifeguards.

Part-Time Lifeguards II: The Crazy Beach

1989

Paraíso Relax (Casa de Masajes) poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Paraíso Relax (Casa de Masajes)

1988

Happy High School poster
4.9

The plot involves the school director bringing in a female inspector to clean up the school. The students decide to kidnap her and replace her with the sexy stripper "aunt" of one of the girls (who is naturally sleeping with several of the guys). The real director meanwhile falls madly in lust with one of her male captors. Meanwhile a goody-good student and her hypocrite father begin to suspect the ruse . . . So will there be a lot of crazy hijinks? Will everything work out happily in the end? Will the entire female cast (and an unfortunate amount of the male cast) find some excuse to get naked?

Happy High School

1986

Explosive Brigade poster
6.3

Emilio, Benito Alberto and Gino are four childhood friends who today belong to the same police group "Z Brigade". Your first mission is to address the assault to a bank, but the lack of vitality that characterizes them they help the assailants flee the scene! The sergeant in charge decides to send them back to the Police Academy. The instructor will Moria Casan, who will train them to face and try to capture "Scar", the most feared and elusive offender.

Explosive Brigade

1986

El telo y la tele poster
4.7

A sex congress takes place in a hotel, and couples are secretely filmed in a Slivers way by the "scientists".

El telo y la tele

1985

Johny Tolengo, el majestuoso poster
5.5

After returning from the United States, Johnny Tolengo is extorted by the mob into signing with a shady record company, thus setting off a series of unexpected adventures.

Johny Tolengo, el majestuoso

1987

The Extermineitors poster
7.3

Two Vietnam War veterans are sedated and thrown into the sea on the orders of a crime boss. Two sailors put on the veterans' clothes and Colonel Morris confuses them and thinks they are the veterans.

The Extermineitors

1989

Los pilotos más locos del mundo poster
7.1

A new and very risky mission to the crazy Brigadier Z. This time Emilio (Disi), Gino (Renni) and Alberto (Fernandez de Rosa) have the difficult task of piloting a Boeing 747 which, among other passengers as eccentric, dangerous moves to a gang of criminals. The members of the country's most famous brigade must go through endless setbacks and moments of extreme madness and fun, with the difficult but firmly aim to expose the evildoers fearful. The world's craziest drivers is a brilliant comedy, full of hilarious situations that will "take off" of laughter to children and adults.

Los pilotos más locos del mundo

1988

Camarero nocturno en Mar del Plata poster
6.4

Tristan and Salvador, two best friends, go on vacation to Mar del Plata. Salvador decides to go his own way, and Tristan has to work as a waiter in a hotel to make ends meet.

Camarero nocturno en Mar del Plata

1986

Series credits

Casados con Hijos poster
8.1

Argentine re-make of American television series Married... with Children. It follows the Argento family and their lives.

Casados con Hijos

2005

The Boss poster
8.2

Eliseo is the superintendent of an upscale building. On the surface, is cordial and docile in his role, but underneath Eliseo believes himself the omnipotent figure of the community — meddling in the affairs of residents and pulling strings as he sees fit. Eliseo's only concern is protecting his job, which comes under threat by a proposed pool project.

The Boss

2022

Tiempo final poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tiempo final

2000

Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera! poster
8.0

It tells, in a comedic tone, the story of the Scarpelli triplets (Guillermo Francella), Marcelo, Enzo, and Luis. Marcelo is a charming, womanizing hustler who aspires to succeed as an actor. Enzo is an unscrupulous office worker capable of anything to get money, and Luis, divorced with four children, is a serious and obsessive man responsible for running the family restaurant. Three brothers, very similar on the outside but very different on the inside, will find themselves united by various twists and turns in which they will share hilarious situations of entanglement.

Trillizos, ¡dijo la partera!

1999

The Man of Your Dreams poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

The Man of Your Dreams

2011

Nothing poster
7.8

An iconic bon vivant, who barely has enough resources to maintain his affluent lifestyle, hires a young woman from Paraguay to replace the recently deceased maid who took care of him for more than 40 years.

Nothing

2023

Comedia poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comedia

2019

Brigada Cola poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Brigada Cola

1992

El infiel poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

El infiel

1985

Durmiendo con mi jefe poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Durmiendo con mi jefe

2003

Pone a Francella poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Pone a Francella

2001

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alma de artista

—

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Juegos prohibidos

1986

Orange and a half poster
7.0

Juan Guerrero has problems with his partner so they distance themselves, at that time he meets Ángeles 'Lali' Zabala and falls in love with her. Nothing is ever simple with Juan, so when he and his wife make up, he can't decide between her and Lali.

Orange and a half

1997

Otro día perdido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otro día perdido

2025

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