Directing
Francisco J. Lombardi
Born August 3, 1947 · Tacna, Peru (age 79)
Francisco J. Lombardi is one of the most renowned filmmakers in Latin America. Throughout his career, he has directed 17 feature films, and his work has been the subject of retrospectives and tributes at major festivals such as Fribourg, Mar del Plata, Guadalajara, Havana, Huesca, Viña del Mar, and Trieste. Lombardi has received numerous international awards, including two Silver Shells for Best D…
Known For
Don't Tell Anyone · 1998Don't Tell Anyone
★ 6.01998
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Black Butterfly · 2006Black Butterfly
★ 5.42006
MovieDrama
A Peruvian schoolteacher conspires with a journalist to assassinate the official responsible for her fiancé's murder.
Callejón Oscuro · 1983Callejón Oscuro
1983
MovieDramaCrime
A violent blind man wanders through the center of Lima, upon entering a restaurant he causes an incident with the public and the employees.
Cuentos inmorales · 1978Cuentos inmorales
★ 3.71978
MovieComedyDrama
Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services · 1999Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
★ 7.21999
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Ella · 2010Ella
★ 3.52010
Movie
Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through a creative crisis and is under pressure to complete a series of paintings for a forthcoming show. It is nevertheless also plain to see that he’d been treating Luna, who’s also his model, largely as an object of desire and obsession – capturing with camera her every movement in the house when she’s not posing for him, and memorising her every physical feature, moles and warts included – he’d apparently counted twenty seven moles on her body. When Alfredo tracks down and entraps the lover she’d wanted to elope with (Rómulo Assereto), he’ll discover that they both have more in common than merely desiring the same woman…
Fallen from Heaven · 1990Fallen from Heaven
★ 6.01990
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Heart of the Wolf · 2025Heart of the Wolf
2025
MovieDrama
Inspired by actual events, the film follows Aquiles, an Amazonian boy abducted by the terrorist group Shining Path. Through his testimony, we witness his journey from victim to fighter and his desperate attempt to escape. A raw and intimate look at indoctrination, violence, and survival, the film reconstructs his struggle for identity and freedom.
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