Luis Alberto Restrepo

Luis Alberto Restrepo (Medellín, May 9, 1956) is a Colombian film and television producer and director, recognized for his work in La pasión de Gabriel and La primera noche. He is a producer and director of series and telenovelas for Caracol Televisión. In 2019 he directed his most recent feature film, Amigo de nadie.

Works

Football Dreams

The Selection is a review of the exciting world of football and the eventful lives of four emblematic players of the Colombian National Team: Carlos Valderrama, Freddy Rincón, René Higuita and Faustino Asprilla.

Release Date2013-07-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count77

Vote Count153

Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ

As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.

Release Date2017-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count69

Vote Count1186

La isla de los famosos

A group of celebrities from show business, art and sports in Colombia are abandoned on a desert island completely isolated from civilization. Without access to food, technology, or the comforts of their daily lives, participants must organize themselves into tribes to survive extreme weather conditions and get their own food.

Release Date2004-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count83

Vote Count1

Les filles de la mafia

This dramatic telenovela follows the lives of women who fall in love (and fall out of love) with Colombia's biggest drug traffickers

Release Date2018-11-18

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

La costeña y el cachaco

Release Date2003-02-15

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count144

Without Breast There Is No Paradise

A woman decides to become a "pre-paid" prostitute to raise the required money for a surgery to increase her breast size, and that way, change her poor-life-style, her present and her future.

Release Date2006-08-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count23

Vote Count263

Dynasty

The story of Miguel Morales and Kaleth Morales, framed in the wonderful atmosphere of Valledupar and the Colombian vallenato.

Release Date2017-05-17

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count14

Las Hermanitas Calle

Release Date2015-09-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count94

Vote Count10

Manual Para Galanes

After suffering from a broken heart as a young adult, Yair invents a successful seduction method and is able to get any girl, money and fame. But he is not able to get Angie's love, the woman that broke his heart.

Release Date2019-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count26

Vote Count5

Amar y Vivir

Irene, a young singer who works at the fruit market, and Joaquín, a poor and hungry mechanic new in town, fell in love and struggle against violence in cold Bogotá.

Release Date1990-12-21

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count2

The Passenger of the Night

Where is narrated the unpleasant trip of Mr. Isaac Ink and the vicissitudes that happened to him with his dead.

Release Date1989-06-01

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Nobody's Friend

Julian has always admired his grandfather's power. He grows up with his best friend, Felipe Molina, and a group of boys destined to live with all the advantages of a privileged class. But violence and a mafia mentality transform society, including the habits of Julian and his friends. His games with weapons, seemingly harmless amusements, become a collective nightmare.

Release Date2019-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

The First Night

A couple of farmers have been displaced from their land, a jungle area, isolated from the world, where lived his childhood and youth, and was brutally thrown to face the streets of an unfamiliar city, huge and ruthless.

Release Date2003-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Rodrigo D. No Future

Rodrigo and his friends, restless teenagers from the marginalized neighborhoods on the hillsides of Medellín, spend their time causing trouble. But Rodrigo dreams of playing rock music and brings his friends together to form a punk band that becomes a lifeline amid a web of disorientation, violence, drugs, and fear.

Release Date1990-07-23

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count23

María Cano

Colombia receives the indemnity for Panama and accepts foreign credit to undertake development works, which increases the number of workers, although with poor wages and terrible working conditions. María Cano, a political activist, began her fight for the conditions of salaried workers and for the fundamental rights of the population.

Release Date1990-04-20

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count3

The Passion of Gabriel

In a small hamlet in the Colombian mountains, a newly appointed padre Father Gabriel finds himself torn between his spiritual calling and his desires for a young woman named Silvia, while also trying to protect his congregation from being drawn into the increasingly violent battles between the government military and rebel forces that surround the town.

Release Date2009-08-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

De amores y delitos: Bituima 1780

Release Date1995-05-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector