13 Best Peruvian Movies to Watch

A cloistered woman's rigid routine in a small Andean town is disrupted by an unexpected visitor.

Directed by Florian Froschmayer · 1h 27m

A forensic pathologist tries to identify anonymous bodies from Peru's internal conflict, at increasing personal cost.

Directed by Héctor Gálvez · 1h 39m

A rich Lima teenager's aimless privilege curdles as his family's hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.

Directed by Josué Méndez · 1h 35m

A boy forcibly recruited by Shining Path guerrillas is haunted by what he was made to do.

Directed by Fabrizio Aguilar · 1h 30m

A traumatised former soldier struggles to adjust to ordinary civilian life in Lima.

Directed by Josué Méndez · 1h 23m

A former army driver's attempt to help a woman he wronged decades earlier reopens an old wound.

Directed by Salvador del Solar · 1h 49m

A married fisherman's secret affair with another man continues even after his lover's death.

Directed by Javier Fuentes-León · 1h 40m

An isolated Andean village's festival, where sin briefly becomes legal, turns dangerous for an outside visitor.

Directed by Claudia Llosa · 1h 40m

A young woman inherits her mother's trauma from decades of wartime sexual violence, passed down through her milk.

Directed by Claudia Llosa · 1h 34m

A teenager's leaked private video spirals into a surreal, fragmented digital nightmare.

Directed by J.D. Fernández Molero · 1h 52m

A teenage boy apprenticing under his father, a traditional retablo craftsman, discovers a secret that shatters his world.

Directed by Alvaro Delgado Aparicio · 1h 35m

A middle-aged, sexually frustrated schoolteacher travels to a small coastal town seeking an affair.

Directed by Omar Forero · 1h 15m

A young seminarian's crisis of faith deepens after he falls in love and is expelled from the church.

Directed by Eduardo Mendoza de Echave · 1h 50m