Gustavo Bueno

The Erection of Toribio Bardelli (2023)

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief. ...

La decisión de Amelia (2023)

Amelia is a young nursing assistant who finds herself without a job; her friend Cecilia proposes that she replace her in the care of an elderly millionaire who is looking for a person to help him. ...

A Giant Adventure (2023)

A Giant Adventure tells the story of Sebastian, Sophia and little Wawa, who will embark on an unexpected and extraordinary journey that will take them to an unknown world inspired by the Nazca culture. ...

Busco novia (2022)

Renzo Collazos has been a recognized journalist for the political section of the newspaper El Comercio for a year. One morning, the website editor asks him to manage a blog dedicated to youth and write weekly about his pale social-sentimental-sexual life. ...

Rapto (2019)

The story of a young orphan, law student whose close relatives limits to just his grandfather and one of his teachers. ...

Friends in a hurry (2018)

In a party, Fico bumps into Manolo, an old friend from school, a rascal who is running away from the mob who is after him. To take shelter in his friend house, Manolo fakes a desease that will start a series of entanglements that will change their lives. S ...

Margarita 2 (2018)

Cebiche de Tiburón (2017)

Following the crazy advice of two shamans, an aspiring chef appeals to an incredible resource to win a national cooking competition: he publicly commits to personally dive to the bottom of the sea, find a sleeping shark, wake it up and turn it into a cevic ...

Dos Besos (2015)

The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences. ...

Knives in the Sky (2013)

After spending ten years in prison accused of terrorism, Milagros is found not guilty and is released. During her detention, she was raped and became pregnant. Noemi, now a ten year old girl, believes her mother has been working abroad all this time. The f ...

Illary (2009)

A Naked Body (2008)

The Capitan Burdeles invites three longtime friends, Coraza, Doctore and El Negro, to the meeting for drinks and card games that are usually held on Saturdays. While they wait for him, they receive a call from El Negro who has had a fight in a hostel with ...

Black Butterfly (2006)

A Peruvian schoolteacher conspires with a journalist to assassinate the official responsible for her fiancé's murder. ...

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s. ...

Polvo enamorado (2003)

When she was 17 years old, Natalia married Don Matias following her parents desires. But it wasn't until Father Santiago arrived to this little town that Natalia felt in love for the very first time. ...

What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)

Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society. ...

Django: La otra cara (2002)

Based on true events, this crime drama chronicles the wanderings of the thief Orlando González -alias Django- during his brief years of glory. After spending a time in the province, Django returns to Lima with his family, trying to escape the criminal cir ...

Red Ink (2000)

Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications. ...

Courage (1999)

The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso. ...

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)

The Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen by his superiors to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts. ...

La captura del siglo (1996)

The story of the capture of the Shining Path leader, Abimael Guzmán, taken to the cinema where the GEIN teamwork is rescued. The script was based on the story written by the same members of the Intelligence Group. ...

El Final (1995)

There is something very important that we need to do as soon as possible... ...

We Are All Stars (1993)

A family longs to be on a TV show which does in-depth exposés of different real families every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are ...

Fallen from Heaven (1990)

An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in ...

The Mouth of the Wolf (1988)

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior f ...

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. ...