16 Films & TV Shows Set In Peru During The 20th Century
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Larco Ave.: The Movie
🇵🇪 Peru The 1980sThe best of Peruvian rock. — Based on a theater musical, this movie is set in the city of Lima, Peru during the end of the 80's. The plot is about a group of youngsters from Lima who are participating in a contest for the best new Peruvian rock band. All these while they have to deal with the worst economic situation in Peru, corrupt leaders and terrorism that is rampant throughout the country. Features very popular Peruvian rock songs from the 80's and 90's.
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The Last Hour
🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sTwo Peruvian detectives must capture Abimael Guzman, the leader of terrorist organization Shining Path, but their intense and complex relationship will endanger their mission and their lives, in the midst of violent Lima of 1992.
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Hostages
🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sWitnesses recount the shocking 1996 hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, where rebels held scores of high-level figures captive at an ambassador's residence.
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Kon-Tiki
New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇪 Peru South Pacific - General Pacific Ocean The 1940sThe true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Connecticut Nevada 🇵🇪 Peru The 1950sThe adventure continues . . . — Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
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Piratas en el Callao
🇵🇪 Peru The 1960s The 17th CenturyA young boy travels back to the 17th century to battle pirates off the coast of Peru.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile 🇵🇪 Peru 🇻🇪 Venezuela The 1950sBased on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
🇪🇬 Egypt 🇳🇵 Nepal District of Columbia 🇬🇷 Greece 🇵🇪 Peru The 1930sIndiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. — When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Cabo Blanco
🇵🇪 Peru The 1940sCaboblanco. Where legends are born. — Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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Green Hell
🇧🇷 Brazil 🇵🇪 Peru The 1930sA group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
