Diego LunaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer
Biography:: By the time director Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También took stateside arthouse theaters by storm in the early months of 2002, actor Diego Luna had been a fixture of Mexican film and television for nearly a decade. Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel...Read More

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Voy a Explotar

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maria Deschamps, Juan Pablo De Santiago, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Rebecca Jones, Martha Claudia Moreno

Synopsis: Director Gerardo Naranjo transplants the myth of the last romantic couple to upper middle-class Mexico City with this vital and hectic tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Read More

8/14/09
Rudo y Cursi

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Guillermo Francella

Synopsis: Carlos Cuarón, who co-wrote the script for his brother Alfonso Cuarón's breakthrough hit, Y Tu Mamá También, makes his feature directorial debut with Rudo y Cursi. The film also reunites the stars of the earlier film, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, and is the first release from the production Read More

5/8/09
Sin Nombre

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Diana Garcia

Synopsis: Student Academy Award winner Cary Joji Fukunaga makes his feature directorial debut with this epic dramatic thriller following a Honduran teenager who reunites with her long-estranged father and attempts to emigrate to America with him in order to start a new life. Inspired by the director's Read More

3/20/09
Milk

Actors: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco

Synopsis: Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant's biopic tracing the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the ill-fated politician and gay activist whose life changed history, and whose courage still inspires people. When Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Read More

11/26/08
Mister Lonely

Actors: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Melita Morgan

Synopsis: When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Read More

3/14/08
Solo Quiero Caminar

Actors: Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Elena Anaya, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Jose Maria Yazpik, Diego Luna

Synopsis: This tense and brutal, Spanish-language crime thriller from Mexico concerns four female bank robbers (Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril and Elena Anaya) whose latest heist puts them in a head-to-head clash with the local mob in Mexico City. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Drama/Mex

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Fernando Becerril, Diana Garcia, Miriana Moro, Juan Pablo Castaneda, Emilio Valdes

Synopsis: For his sophomore effort, Drama/Mex, writer-director Gerardo Naranjo (Malachance) juxtaposes three back-to-back stories, set in the once lush and exclusive - now over-commercialized and garish - resort town of Acapulco, over the course of the same long, hot night. Naranjo mounts an experimental Read More

7/11/07
J.C. Chavez

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mike Tyson, Diego Luna, Julio César Chávez, Steve Wynn, Carlos Salinas de Gortani

Synopsis: Y Tu Mamá También star Diego Luna makes his directorial debut with this documentary tracing the life and career of Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez. From his very first bouts to his unforgettable matches against such formidable opponents as Oscar De La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu, Luna's film merges Read More

2007
Déficit

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Camila Sodi, Luz Cipriota, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Alvaro Verduzco

Synopsis: Y Tu Mama Tambien star Gael García Bernal makes his feature directorial debut with this study of the class system in Mexico centered on a rowdy house party. Cristobal (García Bernal) is a privileged rich boy who loves a good party almost as much as he loves hip-hip. Cristobal has made plans for a Read More

2007
Fade to Black

Actors: Danny Huston, Diego Luna, Christopher Walken, Paz Vega

Synopsis: A screen legend is drawn into a murder mystery that reaches to the highest ranks of the entertainment industry in director Oliver Parker's 1940s-era thriller featuring a sleuthing Orson Welles (played by Danny Huston). The year is 1948 and, having just suffered a breakup with Rita Hayworth and a Read More

2006
The Night Buffalo

Actors: Diego Luna, Liz Gallardo, Gabriel González, Irene Azuela, Emilio Echeverria

Synopsis: Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for years. During Gregario's time away, his girlfriend Read More

2006
A Wonderful World

Actors: Damián Alcázar, Cecilia Suarez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Martin Altomaro, Jésus Ochoa, Noe Alvarado, Silverio Palacios

Synopsis: A simple homeless man in search of a warm place to sleep is exploited by politicians eager to prove that poverty in Mexico has been eradicated in Herod's Law director Luis Estrada's caustic satire concerning the effect of globalization on Mexican citizens. A press conference has been held to Read More

2006
Cochochi

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luis Antonio Lerma Batista, Evaristo Lema Batista

Synopsis: Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost Read More

2006
Carambola

Actors: Daniel Martinez, Jésus Ochoa, Diego Luna, Laura Hidalgo

Synopsis: Diego Luna Daniel Martinez, and Laura Hidalgo headline writer director Kurt Hollander's hyper-stylized tale of an ageing pool hustler whose life seems to fall apart just as he hits his late career stride. El Vago (Martinez) has recently won an old-fashioned billiards hall in a heated contest with Read More

2005
Sólo Dios Sabe

Actors: Diego Luna, Alice Braga, Cecilia Suarez, Jose Maria Yazpik, Renata Zhaneta

Synopsis: A man in love uses a woman's misfortune to get to know her better in this romantic drama. Dolores (Alice Braga) is a student from Brazil who comes to California to study at San Diego State University. Damian (Diego Luna) is a Mexican journalist who has become infatuated with the lovely Dolores. Read More

2005
Criminal

Actors: John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Mullan, Jonathan Tucker

Synopsis: A con artist finds family squabbles are getting in the way of a major payday in this sharp blend of comedy and suspense, based on the Argentinean hit Nueve Reinas (aka Nine Queens). Richard Gaddis (John C. Reilly) is a smart-suited confidence man who knows how to run a big con but prefers to pull Read More

9/10/04
Nicotina

Synopsis: The perfect crime goes horribly, absurdly awry in this Spanish-language tale of avarice starring Y Tu Mamá También's Diego Luna. Told in real time, Nicotina charts the different paths taken by eight characters over the course of a botched diamond heist masterminded by tech geek Lolo (Luna), Tomson Read More

8/20/04
The Terminal

Actors: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielberg revolves around an Eastern European man by the name of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), whose plans of immigrating to New York were hastened by a Read More

6/18/04
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

Actors: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan Jackson

Synopsis: Not a sequel, not really a prequel, sort of a remake, more of a re-imagining, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights follows the blossoming love affair of young couple Katey (Romola Garai) and Javier (Diego Luna) against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution in 1958. Katey is an American girl living in Cuba Read More

2/27/04
Open Range

Actors: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Kevin Costner stars in and directs the Western Open Range. Robert Duvall stars as Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer who free-grazes cattle. He and Charley Waite (Costner) have been partners for ten years. As the film opens in the 1880s, the pair and their employees -- the beefy, rugged, likable Read More

8/15/03
Soldados de Salamina

Actors: Ariadna Gil, Ramon Fontsere, Joan Dalmau, María Botto, Diego Luna

Synopsis: A woman uncovers some unsettling truths about her country and its history in this drama from Spain. Lola (Ariadna Gil) is a writer who feels creatively stifled and hasn't been able to work out a new idea in months. Looking for something to clear her creative block, She takes an assignment to write Read More

2003
Frida

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More

10/25/02
Y Tu Mamá También

Actors: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echeverria

Synopsis: Mexican-born, New York-based filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón directed this Mexican box-office smash hit about a pair of randy upper-class buddies that sparked some controversy for its frank depiction of drug use and sexual exploration. With their respective girlfriends away in Europe, Julio (Gael García Bernal Read More

3/15/02
Vampires: Los Muertos

Actors: Jon Bon Jovi, Tim Guinee, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Summoned to Mexico to slay a clan of malevolent bloodsuckers, vampire hunter Derek Bliss (Jon Bon Jovi) finds himself in need of a new team when his former group of slayers falls prey to the fanged menace. Once again desperately striving to activate the black cross that will render vampires immune Read More

2002
Ciudades Oscuras

Actors: Alejandro Tommasi, Alonso Echanove, Bruno Bichir, Demián Bichir, Diego Luna

Synopsis: Adapted by writer/director Fernando Sariñana from the stories by Juan Madrid, Ciudades Oscuras (Dark Cities) tells a story of interwoven lives in the seedy underbelly of Mexico City. The several different story lines concern hooker Lola (Dolores Heredia); her drug addict son Fede (Diego Luna); her Read More

2002
El Cometa

Actors: Diego Luna, Ana Claudia Talancón, Carmen Maura, Gabriel Retes, Patrick Le Mauff

Synopsis: A period piece that blends first love, the power of the cinema and the Mexican Revolution, El Cometa is set in 1910, as Medero's factions were organizing against the Profirio Diaz regime. Romualdo (Gabriel Retes) owns a traveling vaudeville show and has just lost his star attraction when his son Read More

1999
Un Dulce Olor a Muerte

Actors: Karra Elejalde, Ana Alvarez, Diego Luna, Héctor Alterio, Laila Saab

Synopsis: Murder, mob justice and a young man's coming of age are brought together in this thriller filmed in Mexico. Ramon (Diego Luna), a young man who lives in a small Mexican farming community, one day finds the body of Adela (Laila Saab) in a field, stabbed to death. The incident is doubly upsetting Read More

1999
Todo el poder

Synopsis: Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than he cares to remember, the film itself was Read More

1999
Un Hilito de Sangre

Actors: Diego Luna

Synopsis: Diego Luna, star of Y tu mama tambien and Frieda, headlines this coming of age story based on author Eusebio Ruvalcaba's novel about an awkward teen who throws caution to the wind in order to pursue the girl of his dreams. Leon (Luna) is so shy that he can't even talk to his beautiful classmate Read More

1995
Ambar

Actors: Hector Bonilla, Jorge Russeck, Martin Altomaro, Muni Lubezki, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: This Mexican fantasy-adventure uses a combination of live-action and miniatures to tell the tale of a young man who finds himself in possession of a rare piece of amber. This stone leads him into many adventures including bouts with sea captains, commissioners, prostitutes, and exotic dancers. Read More

1994