Francisco José LombardiFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
  • 2008
  • Black Butterfly

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Melania Urbina, Magdyel Ugaz, Yvonne Frayssinet, Gustavo Bueno, Montserrat Carulla

    Synopsis: Her boyfriend slain while sleeping as Alberto Fujimori's "civil dictatorship" falters on its last legs, a privileged schoolteacher and a world-weary tabloid journalist attempt to avenge the politically motivated murder in director Francisco José Lombardi's searing political thriller. Guido Pazos Read More

    2006
  • Ojo que no ven

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Gianfranco Brero, Gustavo Bueno, Patricia Pereyra, Paul Vega, Melania Urbina

    Synopsis: Directed by Francisco J. Lombardi, Ojo que no ven (What the Eye Doesn't See) follows several fictional story lines set against a backdrop of the real-life collapse of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's regime. There's Colonel Revoredo (Gianfranco Brero), who knows he'll be lucky to escape the Read More

    2003
  • Ojos que no ven

    Crew: Director

    2003
  • Pantaleon y las Visitadoras

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Pilar Bardem, Gianfranco Brero, Gustavo Bueno

    Synopsis: Billed as a Peruvian version of Catch-22 crossed with Dr. Strangelove, this army satire, directed by Francisco J. Lombardi, is about Captain Pantaleon Pantoja (Salvador Del Solar), who heads a hooker squad designed to keep the troops from manhandling the locals. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

    2000
  • Tinta Roja

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer

    Actors: Gianfranco Brero, Giovanni Ciccia, Fele Martínez, Lucia Jimenez, Carlos Gassols

    Synopsis: A man studying to be a writer learns some unpleasant lessons about himself in this drama. Alfonso (Giovanni Ciccia) is an aspiring novelist who, as part of his scholarship to a writing program, must take an internship at a tabloid newspaper alongside his girlfriend Nadia (Lucia Jimenez). While Read More

    2000
  • No Se Lo Digas A Nadie

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Santiago Magill, Lucia Jimenez, Christian Meier, Carmen Elias, Hernan Romero

    Synopsis: Peruvian director Francisco J. Lomvbardi made this Spanish-Peruvian drama adapted from Jaime Bayly's novel about life in Lima as seen by an upper-class homosexual youth. Sensitive Joaquin, caught between his overprotective, religious mother (Carmen Elias) and his macho father (Hernan RomeroRead More

    1998
  • Bajo La Piel

    Crew: Associate Producer, Director

    Synopsis: Set in a dusty, remote Peruvian village, a police captain finds himself flirting with, and eventually seduced by, his darker nature after he begins investigating a bizarre, gruesome series of ritual killings that may be linked to the sacrificial rites of an ancient Indian civilization. After Read More

    1996
  • Sin Compasion

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Diego Bertie, Hernan Romero

    Synopsis: This film represents the Peruvian adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment with a special focus upon the religious aspects of the story. This version is set in modern Lima and closely follows the original plot. It centers around Ramon a poor student who makes a startling confession to a Read More

    1994
  • Caidos Del Cielo

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Gustavo Bueno

    Synopsis: In each of the three tragic stories in this film, set in Lima, Peru, the people in them are as haphazardly related to their lives and the world around them as if they had Fallen From The Sky. In the first, an elderly couple is so determined to have a magnificent burial that they sell or hock Read More

    1990
  • In the Mouth of the Wolf

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: In this war drama, based on a true story and set in an Indian village in the Peruvian Andes, a small squadron of soldiers on patrol are assigned to find and destroy communist guerrilla terrorists. One of the soldiers, dreams of becoming a hero. When the groups good commander is killed, a stricter Read More

    1989
  • La Boca Del Lobo

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Gustavo Bueno, Tono Vega, Gilberto Torres, Berta Pagaza

    Synopsis: This South American melodrama was released in English-speaking countries as The Lion's Den. The film's backdrop is the long (and to some, never-ending) period of civil unrest in Peru. Government troops are pinned down by enemy fire in a remote Peruvian village. The tension is unbearable as the Read More

    1988
  • La Ciudad y los Perros

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Pablo Serra, Gustavo Bueno, Juan Manuel Ochoa, Luis Alvarez

    Synopsis: Originally released in its native Peru as Ciudad y los Perros, City and the Dogs is set in a brutal boy's military academy. Juan Manuel Ochoa plays a tough young cadet who rules a student clique called The Circle, which supplies the other boys with forbidden cigarettes, booze and pornography, and Read More

    1985
  • Maruja en el Infierno

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Pablo Serra, Julio Vega, Jorge Rodriguez Paz

    Synopsis: A strange woman named Doña Carmen puts mentally perturbed men and women to work making glasses out of bottles -- as discarded and devalued by society as the workers themselves. While the greedy doña does not pay her workers any money, she rakes in a profit from the sale of the glasses -- a fact Read More

    1984
  • Muerte de un Magnate

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Orlando Sacha

    Synopsis: A wealthy corporate executive is faced with the possibility that his company may be nationalized, yet this does not seem to affect his need for amorous companionship with a variety of women. When he does take a woman home to his secluded mansion in the countryside, his caretaker's son spies on Read More

    1981
  • Muerte Al Amanecer

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Gustavo Rodriguez, Sylvia, Jorge Rodriguez Paz

    Synopsis: A wandering vagabond is seized, for no good reason, and prosecuted for a series of child murders on the flimsiest of evidence. The authorities need to pacify the public and make an example of someone, and as a man without allies, the vagabond is chosen. This film details the vagabond's arrest and Read More

    1977

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