Gianfranco Annichini

Para (2024)

Para is a Quechua girl who suffers constant abuse from her mother. Her only consolation is her reflection in the water, with whom she shares her sorrows. One day, overwhelmed by her abuse, she decides to run away from home and dives into a lake to meet the ...

La curiosa vida de Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana (2014)

The random life and tragic death of Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana, reconstructed as a puzzle that gathers the acts, loves, crimes and sins of a man without more merit than that of bearing a name whose acrostic composes the word PERU. ...

El mudo (2013)

Constantino Zegarra is a principled Peruvian government official who stands apart from his corrupt colleagues. Throughout his two-decade career, he has steadfastly resisted corruption, driven by the memory of his father's impoverished end due to corruption ...

October (2010)

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere ...

El diente de oro (2005)

Life is a gift, life grants you gifts, but everyone has, within him, the seed of his own downfall: his gold tooth. In the end comes tragedy: an everlasting toothache. ...

Paper Dove (2003)

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, sec ...

Triunfador (1999)

Marvin, an actor in cheap television commercials, is secretly in love with the beautiful Jenny and attributes his rejection to his very short stature. Depressed, he wanders through a park where a Harlequin encourages him to take control of his destiny with ...

El colchón (1998)

A young artist is abandoned by his lover, who leaves her mattress as the only trace of her life with him. The mattress becomes an obsession. ...

¡Nunca más, lo juro! (1992)

Maritza, a young policewoman, falls in love with Marco, who trades in clandestinely extracted archeological pieces. But Lieutenant Eduardo, Maritza's boss, is attracted to her. ...

El pecador de los 7 mares (1992)

A drunkard carrying a mysterious suitcase ends up on an abandoned boat. There he encounters a strange character with a scar on his face who submits him to a terrible moral interrogation and discovers his true identity and the sin he kept so carefully. ...

Alias 'La Gringa' (1991)

This powerful political drama follows the adventures and escapades of "La Gringa", a likeable criminal capable of escaping from any jail. When he escapes from one with the help of an imprisoned intellectual, "La Gringa", returns in disguise to help pay bac ...

Domingo de Ramos en Porcón (1989)

La Casa del Recuerdo (1988)

Delfor Vargas, son of one of the photographers, protagonists of this film, introduces us to the artistic world of the famous Arequipa photographers of the 20th century: the Vargas brothers. ...

Una novia en Nueva York (1988)

In the autumn of a life that has treated him very badly, Rogerio Rázuri, an old Lima boxer, merchant marine, film actor, and debt collector for a film production company, writes to a New York marriage agency in order to ask for a millionaire wife who can ...

Perú: Cuando el Mundo Oscureció (1987)

Feature film that shows us the festivities of the Virgen del Carmen in the Colca Valley, through the oral traditions narrated by the inhabitants of the Colca Valley, it shows religious syncretism and how the Spanish implanted their culture and in particula ...

Profession: Detective (1986)

Alex Caballero is a private detective by correspondence. An interesting case of adultery and blackmail appears, which could make the business quick off. The investigation starts and it gets complicated until it lands in a shady presidential campaign, disco ...

El hombre solo (1985)

Juan Torres lives in an isolated house in the shore of an Amazonian river. With a wisdom learnt from life itself, from nature itself he tells us his story. ...

The City and the Dogs (1985)

Four angry cadets have formed an inner circle in an attempt to beat the system and ward off the boredom and stifling confinement of the military academy, set off a chain of events that starts with a theft and leads to murder. ...

Radio Belén (1983)

A documentary short about a town floating on a river in Iquitos, Peru. ...

Callejón Oscuro (1983)

A violent blind man wanders through the center of Lima, upon entering a restaurant he causes an incident with the public and the employees. ...

María del desierto (1982)

María Reiche studied for more than four decades the "largest calendar in the world", located between Nasca and Palpa, and made up of the famous geoglyphs. ...

Muerte de un Magnate (1980)

Fishing businessman Luis Barletto is in trouble with the nationalist government, mysterious vehicles follow him. Meanwhile in Chaclacayo a gardener looks after his country house. His son José is a poor, shy and ugly boy who has lived an existence full of ...

Cuentos inmorales (1978)

Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s. ...