Movies: Peru

  • 1985
    Paths of liberation

    Paths of liberation (1985)

    Paths of liberation

    01985HD

    Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues....

    Paths of liberation
  • 1982
    Miss Universe in Peru

    Miss Universe in Peru (1982)

    Miss Universe in Peru

    01982HD

    A documentary which shows the struggle of many women surrounding the Miss Universe 1982 pageant hosted by Peru. The government invested a large sum of money in this event, during a time the country suffered an acute political, economic and social cri...

    Miss Universe in Peru
  • 2006
    Die Letzte Droge

    Die Letzte Droge (2006)

    Die Letzte Droge

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    Die Letzte Droge
  • 2009
    Ayahuasca Diary

    Ayahuasca Diary (2009)

    Ayahuasca Diary

    02009HD

    Four Westerners with various ailments travel to Peruvian Amazonia to drink ayahuasca, a traditional medicine renowned for its healing powers....

    Ayahuasca Diary
  • 2008
    Heaven Earth

    Heaven Earth (2008)

    Heaven Earth

    02008HD

    This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), and the tourism it has attracted. The filmmakers talk with two ayahuasqueros, Percy Garcia and Ron Wheelock, as well as ayuahuasca tourists and local pe...

    Heaven Earth
  • 2005
    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage (2005)

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage

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    In Peruvian Amazonia, for the first time in many years, a Shipibo–Konibo community prepare to perform the Aneshiati ceremony: a time of dance, song, festive clothing, and drink—including the sacred tea ayahuasca....

    Shipibo Konibo: A Rite of Passage
  • 1992
    Dancing with the Incas

    Dancing with the Incas (1992)

    Dancing with the Incas

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    Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of three Huayno musicians in a contemporary Peru torn between the military and the Shining Path guerrillas....

    Dancing with the Incas
  • 2000
    Peru's City of Ghosts

    Peru's City of Ghosts (2000)

    Peru's City of Ghosts

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    Join a team of archaeologists and the Discovery Channel in an investigation into the mysterious lines of the Nazca region in Peru. Created by the Nazcas, these huge sculptures are only visible from the sky and depict people, animal, geometric forms, ...

    Peru's City of Ghosts
  • 1976
    Grüße von Rosita aus Peru

    Grüße von Rosita aus Peru (1976)

    Grüße von Rosita aus Peru

    01976HD

    Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of cop...

    Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
  • 1989
    Am steinigen Berg

    Am steinigen Berg (1989)

    Am steinigen Berg

    01989HD

    Documentary directed by Kurt Rosenthal...

    Am steinigen Berg
  • 1969
    CUANDO TENÍA DIEZ AÑOS

    CUANDO TENÍA DIEZ AÑOS (1969)

    CUANDO TENÍA DIEZ AÑOS

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    CUANDO TENÍA DIEZ AÑOS
  • 2003
    A Martian Named Desire

    A Martian Named Desire (2003)

    A Martian Named Desire

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    It tells the story of Jorge who dreams of going to live in the United States. He loves the American way of life and above all, the gringas, but at the North American embassy they deny him a visa. That afternoon she meets Ganzo López, who has just bee...

    A Martian Named Desire
  • 1969
    Voices That Heal

    Voices That Heal (1969)

    Voices That Heal

    01969HD

    Herlinda Augustin is a Shipibo healer who lives with her family in Peruvian Amazonia. Will she and other healers be able to maintain their ancient tradition despite Western encroachment?...

    Voices That Heal
  • 1969
    Me dicen Yovo

    Me dicen Yovo (1969)

    Me dicen Yovo

    01969HD

    While working as a photographer in Benin, West Africa, a two-week trip will turn into a two months personal journey. Me dicen Yovo (I'm a Yovo) is a visual diary of that experience. A Peruvian traveller is an odd presence in Benin whose ethnic a cult...

    Me dicen Yovo
  • 1999
    Machu Picchu: Secrets of the Incan Empire

    Machu Picchu: Secrets of the Incan Empire (1999)

    Machu Picchu: Secrets of the Incan Empire

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    Machu Picchu: Secrets of the Incan Empire
  • 1980
    Abisa a los compañeros

    Abisa a los compañeros (1980)

    Abisa a los compañeros

    01980HD

    Based on real events in Peru, 1963. A team of revolutionary foreigners planned and pulled a heist on the biggest bank in Peru. The loot helped fund the rural revolution in Concepción, Cusco....

    Abisa a los compañeros
  • 2005
    Camino, barbarie

    Camino, barbarie (2005)

    Camino, barbarie

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    An experimental documentary short about the terrorism in Peru in 1986. Using archive footage, the director deconstructs the massacre in a successive historical actions choreography and an atmospheric sound mix alternating the imminence of both the m...

    Camino, barbarie
  • 1974
    El cargador

    El cargador (1974)

    El cargador

    01974HD

    Dramatic testimony of Gregorio Condori Mamani, who works as a porter in Cusco, Peru. Despite the huge effort they make everyday for a few coins, porters fall and find death in the streets....

    El cargador
  • 1937
    Glimpses of Peru

    Glimpses of Peru (1937)

    Glimpses of Peru

    01937HD

    This Traveltalk series short brings us to Lima, Peru where we see a modern city....

    Glimpses of Peru