This study analyzes racist cultural representations in two purportedly pro-indigenous Peruvian films directed by non-indigenous filmmakers during and after the Peruvian civil war in which 70,000 people, mostly Quechua-speakers, were killed (1980–2000). I contend that in the films Gregorio (1984, dir. Grupo Chaski) and Madeinusa (2006 , dir. Claudia Llosa), the positive image of indigenous Peruvian women as migrant subjects with agency is weakened by the dominance of a ‘foreign’ and exoticizing gaze over the marginalized ‘other.’ Even though the films of Chaski and Llosa may intend to reject the stereotyped representation of indigenous women, they nevertheless end up reinforcing a negative image. By denying self-representation or distorting traditional Andean values, these two films participate in the recurrent media practice of cultural violence against the indigenous peoples of the Americas.