Aristóteles Picho

Acting

Aristóteles Picho

Born 1957-03-08 · Huancayo, Perú

Acting credits

Proof of Life poster
6.2

When Peter Bowman, an American engineer working in a South American country, is captured by anti-government forces, the rebels learn his identity and demand $5 million for his safe return. However, his US employer is on the verge of insolvency and will not provide the ransom. Peter's wife Alice is forced to deal with the matter on her own and she retains the services of freelance professional hostage negotiator Terry Thorne.

Proof of Life

2000

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services poster
7.2

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.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services

1999

Roces poster
NR

At a bus stop, five people from different social backgrounds arrive and sit down on the bench, revealing each character's prejudices and preferences toward the others

Roces

1999

Reportaje a la muerte poster
7.5

Two journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, cover violent incidents during a riot in a prison for common criminals. Television broadcasting live allows the rioters to see themselves as main characters. Our journalists come to understand, after a series of conflicts, the phenomenon in which they are participating, they are fueling the violence.

Reportaje a la muerte

1993

The Mouth of the Wolf poster
7.3

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 Mouth of the Wolf

1988

The City and the Dogs poster
7.8

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.

The City and the Dogs

1985

Paper Dove poster
6.0

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

Paper Dove

2003

Alias 'La Gringa' poster
6.4

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.

Alias 'La Gringa'

1991

We Are All Stars poster
5.4

A family longs to be on a TV show which does in-depth exposés of different real families every week. When they are finally selected they decide to change their lives completely so that the audience sees them as they want to be seen, not as they really are.

We Are All Stars

1993

The Gospel of the Flesh poster
6.1

Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.

The Gospel of the Flesh

2013

No artwork available
NR

A young soldier rebels against the abuse of his superior.

Contra los bárbaros

1992

A Martian Named Desire poster
10.0

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 ...

A Martian Named Desire

2003

Sueños de América poster
NR

Four men enter a house separately in the darkness of night and meet there, much to their surprise. Two (Giovanni Ciccia and Renzo Schuller) are there to make love in secret from the homeowner, the mother of one of them, and the other two (Picho and Miguel Iza) are there to steal in complicity with Gisela, the housekeeper who is anxiously talking on the phone.

Sueños de América

2007

El premio poster
4.0

A humble rural teacher travels to Lima to collect his lottery winnings and meet the son he has not seen in years. No one could predict how this would permanently change their lives.

El premio

2009

Courage poster
7.7

The last few months in the life of María Elena Moyano, who was killed at the age of 33 by the Peruvian revolutionary movement Sendero Luminoso.

Courage

1999

Educación física poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Educación física

2012

No artwork available
NR

Taking advantage of her husband's serious illness, a woman and her lover decide to kill the sick man by hiring a peasant who practices an ancient profession: annihilating the terminally ill.

El Despenador

1991

Bala perdida poster
5.3

A group of rich teenagers from Lima travel to Cusco looking for drugs, parties and sex. One of them wants to find Pamela, who he met when they were kids. In that quest, his friends and him will get to know a world of violence, perversion and disenchantment.

Bala perdida

2001

No artwork available
NR

Evaristo Sauce lost his family in a fire. Now Evaristo wanders the streets looking for God to take revenge on him for taking away what he loved the most. Until he finds an old teapot, and from it emerges Demeryat, an old genius who has been locked up for more than three thousand years.

Demerjat's useless miracles

1997

The great voyage of Captain Neptune poster
6.5

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century war lost to Chile.

The great voyage of Captain Neptune

1991

Coliseo poster
NR

The folk music tent "Coliseo" will be evicted, causing the disappearance of a group of artists who found a way of life and identity there. Marcial and Esperanza will form a dance group to save the "Coliseo" by competing in a Huaylarsh Competition against the famous "Tricampeones."

Coliseo

2012

El pecador de los 7 mares poster
8.0

A drunkard carrying a mysterious suitcase ends up on an abandoned boat. There he encounters a strange character with a scar on his face who submits him to a terrible moral interrogation and discovers his true identity and the sin he kept so carefully.

El pecador de los 7 mares

1992

You Only Live Once poster
6.3

Peru in the early 1980s… a time of difficulties.

You Only Live Once

1993

No artwork available
NR

Two friends are stranded in a remote town in the middle of nowhere. One man is about to lose his job. Their lives will intersect at an unexpected point. No matter your situation, never say "I'll never drink from this glass."

Todos y nadie

2008