Francisco J. Lombardi

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.  (more)

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.  (more)

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.  (more)

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. ...  (more)

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.  (more)

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 ...  (more)

Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.  (more)

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

Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an ...  (more)

In an abandoned glass factory, a woman exploits her workers, all of them mentally ill. A gang of young assailants decides to rob said factory, but in order to achieve that, they must get one of them into the woman's house first. What they do know is that Maruja, ...  (more)

Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through ...  (more)

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 ...  (more)

Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.  (more)

The last hours of a famous criminal named the Monster, who raped and killed a young kid. But some how, despiste all the facts and the proof against him, he seems to be innocent  (more)

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

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.  (more)

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 his ...  (more)

Amelia is a young nursing assistant who finds herself without a job; her friend Cecilia (a nurse) proposes that she replace her in the care of an elderly millionaire who is looking for a person to help him. When Amelia goes to don Víctor’s house to introduce ...  (more)