Aristóteles Picho

Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.

Antonio trabalha como professor em uma vila nos Andes peruanos. Sua sorte parece mudar quando ganhar o maior prêmio da loteria. Ele oferece o dinheiro aos habitantes do povoado para reconstruir o canal de irrigação comunitária. O protagonista viaja para Lima, capital do país, para recolher o prêmio. Lá, ele se encontra com seu filho Alex que não via há 10 anos. De repente, o dinheiro arrecadado por Antonio desaparece da casa.

It tells the story of Jorge who dreams of going to live in the United States. He loves the American way of life and above all, the gringas, but at the North American embassy they deny him a visa. That afternoon she meets Ganzo López, who has just been given the "Greencard" because he married a gringa. Jorge then decides that the solution to his problems is to also marry a gringa and travels to Cuzco to look for her ...

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Alice Bowman é viajada e experiente, mas nada a podia preparar para isto. Rebeldes de um país latino-americano em convulsão raptaram o seu marido e estão a pedir um resgate. O valor: 3 milhões de dólares. Meg Ryan interpreta o papel de Alice e Russell Crowe é Terry Thorne, o especialista em libertação de reféns que se torna a única esperança de Alice para manobrar um jogo perigoso com terroristas que dão mais valor ao dinheiro que à vida, num filme recheado de suspense, considerado pela Time como um dos 10 melhores do ano. Tayler Hackford dirige, dominando com firmeza a tensão emocional, à medida que Terry e Alice tentam descobrir os criminosos e salvar o refém (David Morse)... ao mesmo tempo que ambos se defrontam com a preocupante descoberta de que estão atraídos um pelo outro.

The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso.

O capitão do exército peruano Pantaleon Pantoja, um oficial muito sério e eficiente, é escolhido para organizar um serviço especial de 'visitantes' para satisfazer as necessidades sexuais dos soldados colocados em postos avançados da selva.

Peru in the early 1980s… a time of difficulties.

A family longs to be on a TV show which does in-depth exposés of different real families every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are.

Peru's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1993

A drunkard carrying a mysterious suitcase ends up on an abandoned boat. There he encounters a strange character with a scar on his face who submits him to a terrible moral interrogation and discovers his true identity and the sin he kept so carefully.

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century war lost to Chile.

This powerful political drama follows the adventures and escapades of "La Gringa", a likeable criminal capable of escaping from any jail. When he escapes from one with the help of an imprisoned intellectual, "La Gringa", returns in disguise to help pay back the favor but finds himself caught in a prison riot.

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder.