Luis Gnecco
Also Known As: Luis Gnecco Dessy , Lucas Gnecco
Biography: Luis Gnecco Dessy was born in Santiago, Chile. He is one of Chile's most popular comedic actors, tackling the Ricky Gervais part in his country's 2008 version of "The Office". Pablo Larraín cast him in a decidedly non-comedic role as an unscrupulous villain in HBO Latin America's hit mini-series "Prófugos". Gnecco appeared in Fabula's provocative "Young and Wild" before assuming the role of the man who recruits Saavedra to join the NO campaign; it was a natural fit for the actor, as he was deeply involved in the 1988 movement to overthrow Pinochet.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Santiago, Chile
Adult: No
Birthday: December 12, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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The Dancer and the Thief
Overview: Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve is tested when he meets 19 year old Angel a young thief who insists the two join up to score the biggest heist of all time. Though tempted, he resists until he finds out that his beloved wife has gone off with a millionaire and his son wants to change his last name. Then Victoria, a graceful and mysteriously mute dancer living in a conservatory, steps into the picture. She captivates Vergara and Angel, as well as all others that cross her path, drastically changing their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Confessions
Overview: When a young girl from a wealthy Mexico City family disappears, a man arrives to discuss the girl's return, asking for the confession of a family member that has committed a terrible act. One by one, confession by confession, the intruder exposes each member of the family, revealing their deepest and most shocking secrets.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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The Black Pimpernel
Overview: The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Young and Wild
Overview: Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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No
Overview: In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the ‘No’ vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and while under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-08-09
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The Office Trip
Overview: An international company has acquired “Supermarkets Océano”. The long-awaited end-of-the-year tour has been replaced by a day of integration according to "international standards". A group of workers willing to demand their rights will make this Office Trip an unforgettable day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Our Father
Overview: Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-05
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The Stranger
Overview: A supernatural thriller, laced by flashbacks, and set in Canada’s North-West, “The Stranger” turns on the mysterious titular figure of Martin, who comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous decease that makes her addicted to human blood - just like himself-. However, when he arrives to the town, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous decease, but, before he can do it, Martin's brutally attacked by three local thugs led by Caleb, the son of a corrupt police lieutenant, and the incident suddenly starts a snowball that will plunge the community into a bloodbath.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-12
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Aurora
Overview: After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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El Derechazo
Overview: When Bruno, a filmmaker overwhelmed by alimony, receives an ultimatum from his editor to find a subject that help them with ratings, a political candidate appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-10-31
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Karadima Forest
Overview: Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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First Light
Overview: Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs to go back to her country with Mateo, but Marco, the loving father left out of the equation, is adamantly against the idea. The couple clash for weeks on end, until Martina abruptly leaves the country with their son, goes back to Chile and virtually vanishes. With no news of Mateo, time seems to stand still for Marco. Anguished and unable to cope, he finally rallies and sets off in search of his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Overview: A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Pérez
Overview: The encounter between an in mature and irresponsible forty-year-old and his 22 year old daughter, Roma, whom he hasn't seen more than a few times in his whole life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Much Ado About Nothing
Overview: After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son of a powerful politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Neruda
Overview: It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-08-11
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Savages
Overview: Sonia and Arturo live in a house that appears safe but is too large and silent. One night, three armed men violently break into the couple's property. Arturo manages to escape and capture the youngest and most inexperienced of the thieves, deciding to kidnap him and discipline him in the basement of the house. Gradually, the anger dissipates, and strange familial ties emerge that Arturo and Sonia believed were long gone. "Salvajes" is a violent portrayal of a divided society, in an unequal social fabric where the boundaries between victim and perpetrator become blurred.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-08-01
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A Fantastic Woman
Overview: Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Time Off
Overview: When Camilo and his girlfriend, Pola, start to struggle in their relationship, she asks for a week away from him to assess the situation. Although Camilo agrees, he feels confused, as his undemanding life is made uncomfortable for the first time. Soon he meets Mikela, a disaffected teenage girl whom he befriends. However, when Camilo discovers Mikela's past diagnosis as a schizophrenic, he begins to worry about her safety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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El Angel
Overview: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Something Is Out There
Overview: While wandering solitary in the city, Bruno discovers that his personality alternates with another. Such scrutiny will disturb him and make him to face himself in a quest that will even bring him face to face with death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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Sex with Love
Overview: In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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The Night Visitor
Overview: Elisa, a lonely and shy librarian, moves to live in a downtown building, without knowing the killing of a young student took place there some time ago. A strange feeling taking over her will cause a drastic personality change while also leading her to unveil the secret behind the murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-20
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Artax
Overview: Mariana is a woman who has dedicated her entire life to equine therapy that goes over the history of how she came to that. In her youth she lived a happy and prosperous life until a particular episode leads her to have to face millionaires debts. This situation can lead to being left homeless and especially without their horses, among which stands out Artax, the only being with which his son Bruno with Asperger's syndrome manages to have a special bond that helps him to cope with his life with harmony. Mariana must fight against wind and tide in this story of struggle and resilience sustained by the love of a mother and her son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Blood Will Tell
Overview: Thriller about a family whose ties are put to the test when the patriarch’s wife dies.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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My Tender Matador
Overview: Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-15
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Into the Labyrinth
Overview: When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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La regola d'oro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-02-26
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The Two Popes
Overview: Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Alberto: ¿Quién sabe cuánto cuesta hacer un ojal?
Overview: Alberto, a young law student struggles to realize his ultimate dream: to follow the call of his priestly vocation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Nobody Knows I'm Here
Overview: Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-04-15
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Casa de remolienda
Overview: Concerned about the future of her three children, a widow takes them to the city with the purpose of getting them married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-08-30
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Kill Pinochet
Overview: Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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Johnny One Hundred Pesos
Overview: Based on real events, 17-year-old Johnny García becomes involved with four older thugs who are planning to rob a money-laundering business masquerading as a video store. As they try to escape, a swarm of exploitative media attention awaits.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Post Mortem
Overview: In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-07-02
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Chile Can Do It
Overview: The businessman who sends the first Chilean astronaut into outer space can't quite come up with the money to bring the adventurer back.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-01-08
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La peste del insomnio
Overview: 30 actresses and actors from Latin America, seek to evoke hope in the midst of the health and economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19, through the reading of fragments from the work of Gabriel García Márquez alluding to the plague of oblivion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-06-11
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Un loco matrimonio en cuarentena
Overview: A couple must overcome different pandemic-related altercations during their virtual wedding in order to maintain an ordinary and stable marriage ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2021-08-21
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Borges and Me
Overview: Jay Parini finds himself stuck in a Morris Minor, chauffeuring the brilliant, blind Jorge Luis Borges through Scotland. Quiet and conservative, 23-year-old student Parini dreams of becoming a writer but is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible 70-year-old Borges. As the journey takes a surreal turn, their differences magnify until, in the tradition of a classic road trip, the two ultimately find common ground.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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El Puma
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
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