01 A cloistered woman's rigid routine in a small Andean town is disrupted by an unexpected visitor.
13 Best Peruvian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 5, 2026
Peru Drama thought provokingslow and atmospheric
Peruvian cinema’s strongest recent work, led by Claudia Llosa, keeps returning to the country’s Andean communities and the trauma of its internal conflict, told with a patience that rarely tips into melodrama.
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02 A forensic pathologist tries to identify anonymous bodies from Peru's internal conflict, at increasing personal cost.
03 A wealthy Lima teenager's aimless privilege curdles as his family's hypocrisy becomes impossible to ignore.
04 A boy forcibly recruited by Shining Path guerrillas is haunted by what he was made to do.
05 A traumatized former soldier struggles to adjust to ordinary civilian life in Lima.
06 A former army driver's attempt to help a woman he wronged decades earlier reopens an old wound.
07 A married fisherman's secret affair with another man continues even after his lover's death.
08 An isolated Andean village's festival, where sin briefly becomes legal, turns dangerous for an outside visitor.
09 A young woman inherits her mother's trauma from decades of wartime sexual violence, passed down almost literally.
10 A teenager's leaked private video spirals into a surreal, fragmented digital-age nightmare.
11 A teenage boy apprenticing under his father, a traditional retablo craftsman, discovers a secret that shatters his image of him.
12 A middle-aged, sexually frustrated schoolteacher travels to a small coastal town seeking an affair.
13 A young seminarian's crisis of faith deepens after he falls in love and is expelled from the priesthood.
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