08.1 Peruvian Cinema

Unable to get intimate with her husband of 10 years, a woman embarks on a steamy affair with his brother.

A family longs to be on a TV show which does an in-depth expose of a different real-life family 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.

Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.

Jorge will not have a good day. He will have to fight with his mother and his domineering wife Jimena. And everything during his first anniversary of marriage. Besides, Jimena will receive the surprising visit of her friend Cecilia, a young and mysterious widow. While in the office of Jorge, Pablo, one of his workers, it will help the shy Tereso to conquer Carla's love, the sensual secretary of the office.

On Halloween night in Lima, four rich kids spend a night on the town, goofing, getting into trouble, and deciding to help Manuel lose his virginity. From Juan Diego's house they hire three call girls, not much older than they, and they pair up (El Gordo declines - he wants to be true to his girlfriend). The young women are sweet and street smart, the boys are naïve and full of bravado, Romance and violence are possibilities during this night of surprises and self discovery.

Four years after their crazy night of escapades, Manuel, Efrain, and El Gordo's friendship has survived well into their college years. Now, living together they decide to throw an end of summer party to rival all parties. What they don't know is that Viviana, an escort from Manuel's past comes back to stir things up, forcing them to make decisions that they may not be prepared to make.

Lighthearted Comedy/drama, based on a day for 4 middle class couples ranging from late teens to middle aged, all of course have sex in their minds but their day brings unexpected and sometimes hilarious consequences. Great Soundtrack by Mar De Copas, Dolores Delirio, Cementerio Club,Los Fuckin Sombreros,Chabelo, Hermanos Brothers,El Ghetto,El Hombre Misterioso,Indigo,Pua Silencio, all excellent local bands.

A gathering of friends celebrating the 25th anniversary of high school

Before becoming one of the most recognised public figures of Peru, Carlos Alcántara tells his origins beginning from just a normal guy to the great "Pataclaun" and more characters.

Follows Machin's conflicted relationships with his girlfriend Emilia and with his best friend Culicich.

In a trendy Peruvian nightclub's ladies' room, female partygoers bond over personal confessions and romantic adventures, turning the bathroom into an unexpected sanctuary for exploring relationships and desire.

Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.

Passion, criminal instincts an traditions melt together in this film, that shakes our conception of crime.

Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted government during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

The last hours of a famous criminal named the Monster, who raped and killed a young kid. But somehow, despite all the facts and the proof against him, he seems to be innocent.

Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter's marriage. Not only must he brave the dangers of the Amazonian jungles, but also the bounty hunter hot on his trail.

Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing indigenous Indians away, so few men can profit from cattle. Opposition gets killed. A US photojournalist tries to investigate. Activist Alyssa helps him.

A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

A veteran US Marine sniper is partnered with a rookie sniper as his spotter to take out a politician and a rebel leader in the jungles of Panama.

A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the mafia that killed her family.