Adventure, Drama, Romance
Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Scarlett, Shanghai & Me
Gods
Touching the Void
Rosa Chumbe
Tea with Mussolini
Juliana
The Emperor's New Groove
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Blood of Fu Manchu
Dr. Cyclops
Fitzcarraldo
A Martian Named Desire
Kukuli
Lima: Breaking the Silence
Barcelona
To Have and Have Not
The Sun Also Rises
The Motorcycle Diaries
Fair Wind to Java
SIMILAR MOVIES
Scarlett, Shanghai & Me
IMDB 10 | Aug , 2020
A story about coming to the end of your journey as an expat in China, told through the lens of the films that inspired us.Gods
IMDB 5.1 | Aug , 2008
A Peruvian teen lusts after his wild sister while the new wife of their difficult, wealthy father tries to hide her lower-class background.Touching the Void
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 2003
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.Rosa Chumbe
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 2015
Rosa is a mature police officer with both a gambling and a drinking problem. She lives with her daughter Sheila, who has a little baby. One day, after a big fight between them, Sheila steals her mother's savings and storms out of the house leaving her baby behind. Rosa is forced to spend some time with her grandson. Something changes inside her heart of stone. However, everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.Tea with Mussolini
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1999
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.Juliana
IMDB 8.8 | Dec , 1988
Juliana tells the story of a little girl who dresses like a boy to join a gang that her brother is in. The story shows the reality of young kids that join gangs.The Emperor's New Groove
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 2000
Kuzco is a self-centered emperor who summons Pacha from a village and to tell him that his home will be destroyed to make room for Kuzco's new summer home. Kuzco's advisor, Yzma, tries to poison Kuzco and accidentally turns him into a llama, who accidentally ends up in Pacha's village. Pacha offers to help Kuzco if he doesn't destroy his house, and so they form an unlikely partnership.Aguirre, the Wrath of God
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1972
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
IMDB 6 | May , 2008
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend—and Indy's colleague—Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.The Blood of Fu Manchu
IMDB 4.5 | Aug , 1968
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.Dr. Cyclops
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 1940
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.Fitzcarraldo
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1982
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.A Martian Named Desire
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2003
It tells the story of Jorge who dreams of going to live in the United States. He loves the American way of life and above all, the gringas, but at the North American embassy they deny him a visa. That afternoon she meets Ganzo López, who has just been given the "Greencard" because he married a gringa. Jorge then decides that the solution to his problems is to also marry a gringa and travels to Cuzco to look for her ...Kukuli
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1961
Kukuli, a young llama herder, leaves her grandparents in the countryside of Cusco to attend the Feast of Mamacha Carmen in the town of Paucartambo.Lima: Breaking the Silence
IMDB 4.8 | Mar , 1999
An intense drama based on the true story of Peruvian rebels who in 1997 kidnapped several hundred high-ranking diplomats and government officials in an attempt to force the release of 400 political prisoners.Barcelona
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1994
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.To Have and Have Not
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1945
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.The Sun Also Rises
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 1957
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.The Motorcycle Diaries
IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 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.Fair Wind to Java
IMDB 4.9 | Jan , 1953
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...