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.

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.

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 independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.

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.

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.

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

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 ex-partner, Mariana. The friends go to the place and manage to transfer Mariana, who has lost consciousness, to the meeting place. They play games and make drinks while they wait for him to recover. But this does not happen and they will soon find themselves in the alternative of having to get rid of a body that has become apparent evidence of a crime. During the long night the ghosts of sexism, frustration and imposture so characteristic in certain social sectors of our culture will appear.

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 style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.

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.

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.