10 Best Movies Set in or About Peru

10 Movies Set in or About Peru

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Peru.

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   1. Kon-Tiki

   1950

   This Oscar-winning documentary chronicles Thor Heyerdahl's audacious 1947 voyage across the Pacific from Peru on a balsa-wood raft to prove that ancient South Americans could have reached Polynesia. A thrilling record of a real expedition.

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   2. Paddington

   2014

   A polite young bear from darkest Peru travels to London in search of a home and, lost and alone at Paddington Station, is taken in by a wary family — bringing marmalade-fueled chaos and warmth into their lives. A charming family comedy.

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   3. Storm in the Andes

   Storm över Anderna · 2015

   A young Swedish woman travels to Peru to uncover the truth about her aunt, a legendary figure in the Shining Path insurgency, confronting the violent legacy of the guerrilla war. A searching documentary.

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   4. Paddington in Peru

   2024

   Paddington and the Brown family travel to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, only for her mysterious disappearance to launch them on a thrilling adventure through the Amazon and into the mountains. A warm family sequel.

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   5. Dr. Cyclops

   1940

   Deep in the Peruvian jungle, a half-mad physicist working in secret shrinks a group of visiting scientists down to a fraction of their size, and the tiny explorers must fight to survive and stop him. A pioneering sci-fi horror in Technicolor.

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   6. Das Vermächtnis des Inka

   1965

   In 19th-century Peru, two envoys sent to make peace with the rebellious Incas are framed for the murder of the Inca ruler by a treasure-hunting bandit, and must clear their names amid the unrest. A German-made adventure.

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   7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

   2008

   In the Cold War 1950s, an aging Indiana Jones races Soviet agents to a mystical crystal skull tied to a legendary lost city of gold hidden deep in the Peruvian jungle. A globe-trotting adventure sequel.

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   8. Tad, The Lost Explorer

   Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones · 2012

   A bumbling Chicago construction worker who dreams of being an archaeologist is mistaken for a famous professor and swept off to Peru, where he stumbles into a real hunt for a lost Inca city. An animated adventure comedy.

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   9. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

   2004

   When five people die in the collapse of an ancient rope bridge in 18th-century Peru, a friar investigates their lives to divine whether the tragedy was fate or divine will. Adapted from Thornton Wilder's novel.

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    10. There Is Only One Sun

    Det finns bara en sol · 1998

    Returning to the Peruvian rainforest after seventeen years, a filmmaker reunites with the Asháninka people, who share the hardships and struggles they now face. A reflective documentary.