Best Peruvian action movies
A curated collection of popular action movies from Peru.

La boca del lobo (1988)
La boca del lobo (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 force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

Profession: Detective (1986)
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, discovering an election fraud and crimes comitted by a politician connected to drug trafficking in order to win.

Alias 'La Gringa' (1991)
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 back the favor but finds himself caught in a prison riot.
Chavín de Huántar, el rescate del siglo (1999)
Chavín de Huántar, el rescate del siglo (1999)
On December 17, 1996, MRTA terrorists took hundreds of people hostage at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru, including ministers and high-ranking military officials. For 126 days, the country remained in suspense as the Peruvian Army secretly planned Operation Chavín de Huantar, an intervention led by Commander Juan Valer. On April 22, 1997, after months of planning, Peruvian commandos carried out a rescue operation that kept Peru and the world on edge.

Yuli (2018)
Yuli (2018)
Yuli desperately observes on her bed the corpse that hours before had been her client, without knowing that under it is hidden a suitcase full of dollars that would be the salvation of her only daughter, victim of a serious illness.

Django: La otra cara (2002)
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 circuit. But the appearance of the woman of a dead partner will unleash Django's ambition, and his libido.

Django: Sangre de mi sangre (2018)
Django: Sangre de mi sangre (2018)

Ojos que no ven (2003)
Ojos que no ven (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.

La gran sangre - La pelicula (2007)
La gran sangre - La pelicula (2007)
An ex-cop, a martial arts master, a hustler and an ex-soldier join forces to fight crime on the fringes of the law in the city of Lima, Peru. They form a gang known as La Gran Sangre (The Great Blood), due to the pact they make, by getting a wound on their wrist.

The Psychedelic Girls (1968)
The Psychedelic Girls (1968)
Maura Monti (Mireya), Amedee Chabot (Adriana), Isela Vega (Dalila) and Elizabeth Campbell (Patricia), are hit women who kill men in cold blood. But not everybody, only men who don't comply with their 'godmother' (Tamara Garina)

Condenado en la pequeña Roma (2008)
Condenado en la pequeña Roma (2008)

Django: En el nombre del hijo (2019)
Django: En el nombre del hijo (2019)

Hour of the Assassin (1987)
Hour of the Assassin (1987)
Fiero is hired to assassinate the newly-elected civilian president of San Pedro. His employers are a group of generals, threatened by the liberal sympathies of the new president-elect. The generals, having killed Fiero's father years ago, trick Fiero into thinking he is working for the leftist People's Party. Meanwhile, a CIA agent is sent stop to the assassination. It's a race against time as the agent must stop the HOUR OF THE ASSASSIN.

Al filo de la ley (2015)
Al filo de la ley (2015)
They betrayed the mafia, to live they changed their identities, today after 20 years they are back as police undercover in the most dangerous Peruvian drug cartel.