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1) Fitzcarraldo
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Fausta suffers from 'The Milk of Sorrow, ' an illness transmitted through mother's milk by women who've been raped during Peru's civil wars. Stricken with the fear that she's contracted the illness from her mother's breast milk, Fausta goes to extreme lengths to protect her own sexuality and safety. After her mother's sudden death, she finds herself compelled to embark on a frightening journey for re-awakening, freedom, and wholeness.
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, two young British friends travelled to a remote corner of Peru. Ambitious mountaineers, their aim was to conquer the unclimbed west face of a notorious 21,000 ft. peak "Siula Grande". Their story has become part of mountaineering legend.
4) Retablo
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
In the remote mountains of Peru, Segundo is being groomed to follow his father's footsteps in the traditional folk art of crafting intricate, artisan story-boxes. Segundo reveres his father, but realizes that the weight of carrying the family legacy will keep him on the mountain forever. When he stumbles across a secret his father is harboring, Segundo will come to face the reality of his religious and conservative landscape.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
John Woodson is disillusioned and temporarily without direction. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that will redefine human life and provide a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth. Resistant at first, John finds that with each step he takes and person he meets...
6) Altiplano
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
"High in the breathtaking, majestic Andes of Peru, silent but deadly traces of mercury -- remnants of long-ago silver mining -- bring illness and death to a local village. Seeking retribution, the villagers mistakenly attribute the outbreak to Western doctors who work in the mountains. Two women -- the fiance of a villager killed in the accident and the wife of a doctor murdered in the riot -- are brought together in this haunting yet ravishingly...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Miguel, a respected Peruvian fisherman, is expecting his first child with his beautiful wife, Mariela. However, their peaceful existence is threatened by Miguel's love for Santiago, a visiting artist whose presence is viewed as a threat by the villagers. When a fatal accident befalls the community, Miguel is faced with hiding his true feelings or coming to terms with who he is and risk losing everything, including those he loves.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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Description
Based on harrowing true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political...
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A Hollywood movie crew is in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, the baleful stuntman Kansas remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb.
10) Máncora
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Santiago is a 21-year-old from Lima who is haunted by his father's recent and unexpected suicide. Santiago decides to take refuge in Máncora, a beach resort town in the north of the country. He is accompanied by his stepsister Ximena and her husband Inigo, a brash art collector from New York. The tranquility of their getaway is quickly shattered by a powerful act of boundary-crossing and betrayal, which threatens to turn Máncora into a paradise...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Zonia's home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer? Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal-winning author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal explores the wonders...
12) Fitzcarraldo
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
13) Madeinusa
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse....
Publisher
Laguna Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Alex is having an affair with his cousin Lisbet, a young woman married to a taxi driver involved in fraudulent dealings. When Alex and Lisbet are fired from the shop where they work, Alex turns to selling porn films in Lima's Polvos Azules market. Meanwhile, a rural teacher named Antonio, who is Alex father, wins the lottery and travels to Lima to collect the money and visit the son he has not seen in years, only to find his luck will take him down...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When the Bridge of San Luis Rey collapses, five travelers fall into the gorge below. Was it an act of God? In a faithful adaptation of Thorton Wilder's classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel, a friar unravels the lives those who died for an answer, upsetting the Inquisition of Peru's articles of faith. Digitally remastered, this star-studded film is restored with 40 minutes of unseen footage.
Publisher
Cinevista
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
Español
Description
Four angry cadets, who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement in a Peruvian military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder and suicide.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.
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