In the last few decades, Peruvian movies has been slowly but steadily growing in the seventh art (film) industry.
Here you have a list of the most awarded movies you have to watch ant least one in your life.
1.The Green Wall
Directed by Armando Robles Godoy 1970.
A man leaves Lima and goes to the jungle to fulfill his dreams, not everything will go as he plans, unforeseen events arise from his arrival to the jungle, conflicts with the authorities and various moments in the life of the settlers, until the tragic end. The film won the Golden Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1970 and was nominated for the 1969 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. After its release in the U.S.A., Roger Ebert named it the 5th best film of 1972.
2.Bajo la Piel
Directed by Francisco Lombardi-1996 starring José Luis Ruiz Barahona, Diego Berthie, Gianfranco Brero and Ana Risueño.
A shy policeman falls in love with the wrong woman in the context of a series of crimes that take place in the city where they both work. The film was to be an adaptation of a crime novel by Jim Thompson.
3.Juliana
Directed by Fernando Espinoza- Alejandro legaspi- 1,988) starring Rosa Isabel Morfino. The film was seen by 600,000 spectators in its premiere in theaters. It was financed by the German television channel Zweites Dentesch.
A very humble girl runs away from home, due to the mistreatment received by her stepfather.
Once on the street, she faces the hard struggle to survive, discovers the marginalization suffered by girls when they try to find street work, because she decides to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy.
4.La Boca del Lobo
Directed by Francisco Lombardi – 1988 starring: Gustavo Bueno, Toño Vega , Aristoteles PICHO. Based on the massacre of Socos, real events that took place between 1980 and 1983, during the period of terrorism in Peru. It was shortlisted for the OSCAR awards in the category of best foreign film (non-English speaking), although it did not compete.
5.Tinta Roja
Directed by Francisco Lombardi – 2,000 actors: Gianfranco Brero, Giovanni Ciccia, Carlos Gassols. Based on the homonymous novel by Chilean Alberto Fuguiet, with screenplay by Giovanna Pollarolo Giglio. The film is a tribute to Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. A young woman starts her pre-professional internship in the police area of a tabloid newspaper, where the boss is a guy who does not admit faint-hearted people.
6.Alias la Gringa
Directed by Alberto Durand – 1991
La gringa is a delinquent who escapes from the prison “El Fronton”, but decides to return to help a university professor who had saved her life.
While planning the escape, a riot breaks out among the Shining Path prisoners.
Starring German Gonzales, the film was selected as a Peruvian candidate for Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
7.Dias de Santiago
Directed by Josué Méndez 2004 Santiago Román is a former combatant of the Peruvian Navy, who fought against drug trafficking and terrorism. He spent so much time in military cloisters that he does not know how to function in civilian life and even less in a city of so many contrasts like Lima. At the end of the play, his inability to integrate will cause him upheavals and he will let himself be carried away by his impulses.
In the leading role of Pietro Sibile, the film won the Critics Award at the Lima Film Festival.
8.MadeInUsa
Directed by Claudia Llosa – 2006 time of holy week and the people of Manayaicuna have the custom that “as God is dead, there is no sin”. This causes people to do whatever they want. A stranger who has the “bad luck” to pass through the area, meets a girl named Madeinusa” and is shocked by her “expressive beauty”, he does not know what is coming to him starring Magaly Solier, the film was filmed in a highland town called Camrey chico, in the district and province of Rucuay, department of Ancash. The name of the protagonist, when separated in syllables, forms the phrase “made in usa”.
9.La Teta Asustada
Directed by Claudia Llosa 2009 Starring Magaly Solier, it focuses on the fears of women who were raped during the terrorist era that Peru lived in the last two decades of the twentieth century. In 2010 it was nominated for an Oscar (U.S.A.) in the category of best foreign language film, becoming the only Peruvian film to be nominated for an Oscar.
10.Asu Mare
Directed by Miguel Valladares 2,015 film adaptation of the homonymous comic monologue by Carlos Alcántara. The title is a variation of the pun “a su madre”, considered a localism, dedicated to the close experiences with his mother.
Produced by Miguel Valladares of Tondero and Alcántara. The film brings together in brief appearances the actors and comedians of pataclaun.