Luis Llosa

Director

January 1, 1951 (75 years)

Lima, Peru

Biography

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).

Filmography

5.3

Anaconda

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.

5.9

The Specialist

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.

6.2

Sniper

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.

4.3

Crime Zone

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.

7.5

The Avenging Angel: Caligula

Based on the real life incidents of young Peruvian criminal Fernando de Romaña "Caligula", who ran a ring of blackmail, rape, and drugs in Lima during the early 1990s, before being shot to death.

3.5

Fire on the Amazon

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.

5.3

The Feast of the Goat

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.

4.1

Hour of the Assassin

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.

4.4

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon

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.

N/A

Gamboa

Gamboa is a Peruvian television series broadcast by Panamericana Televisión between 1983 and 1987. The series takes place in the city of Lima in the Cercado de Lima district. It revolves around the experienced Major Gamboa, a policeman who is in charge of solving the most violent police cases, but very effective in resolving the events that arise.

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Tattoos in Memory

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.

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Aventuras Prohibidas

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.

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Owners of Time

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

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