74 Films & TV Shows Set In Peru
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
New York 🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sThe origin story for Optimus Prime and how he became the leader of the Autobots, and introduces the Maximals, the Predacons, and the Terrorcons.
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Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon
🇵🇪 PeruAn epic journey of a young hero and her Spirit Guides, 'Dillo' a cute and humorous armadillo and "Vaca" a goofy oversized tapir, who embark on a quest to save their home in the spectacular Amazon Rainforest.
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Crónicas de un exilio
🇵🇪 PeruDirector Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine history.
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Song Without a Name
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sPeru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
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De patitas a la calle
🇵🇪 PeruA group of a dog patrol fights with traffickers to free their friends. — A dog named Lasmi lost herself in the city of Lima. A group of dog patrol help her to find her family. But a group of traffickers are kidnaping dogs, so they have to found out them and cought them.
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Coreografías de la transgresión
🇵🇪 PeruFrom Lima to Cusco (Peru), the protagonists of this documentary bring us closer to the space of the transfeminine. The life experiences of each of them weave together a story of struggle and vindication, in which the religious-traditional, dance or activism become spaces of resistance, of individual and collective empowerment.
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Triple Frontier
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇪 PeruYou can’t go this far without crossing every line — Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold
California 🇵🇪 Peru The 2000s The 2010sExplorer is her middle name. — Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.
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Norte
🇵🇪 PeruAlejo, an archaeologist from Lima, Peru, travels to Newmarket, Canada, where his Peruvian family migrated years ago. It is his first time back in two decades and since the death of his mother.
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The Journey of Javier Heraud
🇵🇪 PeruThe life of the Peruvian poet Javier Heraud, who sadly passed at the young age of 21, told by his great-niece Tania through letters, poems and tales of shared times.
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Sebastina: The Curse
🇵🇪 PeruA trip with your friends could become your worst nightmare. — Based on a story titled "The Woman and the Tiger" featured in Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma about a trip of a group of friends that ends up haunted by a mysterious spirit.
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Revolution and Land
🇵🇪 Peru The 1960s The 2010sThe long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
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In the Middle of the Labyrinth
🇵🇪 PeruFor Renzo, a teenager from Trujillo, Peru, the days pass by on the streets and skateboard runways where he tries to master new tricks on his board. Until fate leads him to meeting Zoe, a girl who spends her afternoons drawing the dozens of telephone antennaes that cut across the city sky, and his life transforms almost imperceptibly.
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La pasión de Javier
🇵🇪 Peru The 1950s The 1960sA poet and guerrilla fighter — The life and times of Peruvian poet Javier Heraud in the 1950s and 1960s, including his university years and his involvement with Latin American guerrilla movements.
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The Lost City of Machu Picchu
🇵🇪 PeruHigh in the Peruvian Andes lies the ancient city of Machu Picchu, a lost city of doorways and passages that hint at the ghosts of its past. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why? The answers lie below the surface, and mummy kings wait to share their stories. But will these revelations finally lay the ghosts of Machu Picchu to rest.
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Paradise Hotel
🇵🇪 PeruIn the Peruvian desert lies an extravagant hotel filled with endless entertainment where one of the guests, introverted Guillermo, battles to overcome his lack of confidence and his school bully to win the heart of his dream girl.
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Cines de Video
🇵🇪 PeruA group of ex-projectionists from different parts of Peru prepared to show a film in which they themselves are the protagonists; alongside former patrons and managers, they reveal their most intimate and unforgettable experiences in the cinemas that have aged along with them.
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Identidad
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980s“Identidad” is an introspective journey about what it means to be born in Peru in the early 1980s, when the worst economic, social and political crisis in its history began. This trip results in a look, perhaps hopeful, about a recent moment of social change and transformation whose essence was reflected in what happened around the return of the Peruvian Selection to the World Cup after 36 years of failures.
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Retablo
🇵🇪 PeruSegundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains of Peru. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he artfully crafts altarpieces for church and homes, and is preparing his son to follow in his footsteps. But cracks form in their tight bond.
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La Casa Rosada
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sAdrian Mendoza (52) has become a widow due to the effects of the war and together with his children, Juan de Dios (12) and Maria del Carmen (10), confronts the fatal situation that prevails in the convulsed city of Ayacucho. Adrian is returning to his home with Juan de Dios when a police patrol stops him for a routine search. Tthe police take him into custody as a presumed terrorist on the basis of subversive messages coming from the radio. He is branded as a terrorist and a fugitive from the law. In the days that follow more than a dozen soldiers raid his home and he is taken to the dreaded Pink House where he will be cruelly tortured.
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Caiga quien caiga
🇵🇪 PeruFilm about the fall and capture of the former head of the peruvian intelligent service Vladimiro Montesinos.
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We're All Sailors
🇵🇪 PeruTolya, his brother and the captain live on a fishing ship, stranded in a port of Chimbote. The company is bankrupted, the ship hasn’t fished in eight weeks and the rest of the crew has returned to their countries. With no money and with practically no possibility of change in sight, Tolya tries to adapt to a new way of life on solid ground.
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El río
🇵🇪 Peru The 2010sA doc-travel log that goes through past and present of the vast Amazon region, the largest hydrographic territory on the planet, in which humid forests and ancestral cultures coexist resisting the advance of the transnational domain,
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The Bridge Master's Daughter
🇵🇪 PeruIn the Peruvian highlands, a father and master of a 300-year-old bridge weaving tradition struggles to maintain his culture as his daughter tries to escape it.
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Javier con i, Íntag
🇵🇪 Peru The 2010sOn April 10, 2014, the environmental activist and president of the Junín community, Javier Ramírez, was arrested and sentenced to ten months in prison for the crimes of “rebellion, sabotage and terrorism”. A few days later, the National Mining Company entered the area accompanied by a squad of at least 200 policemen to carry out studies related to the Llurimagua mining project, in the Íntag cloud forest. Javier with I, Íntag collects Javier Ramírez's reflections after his release, his feeling of condemned innocence, the pain of living in a divided, busy and frightened community, with its social fabric destroyed.
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