The Bad Intentions (Spanish: Las malas intenciones) is a 2011 drama film written and directed by Rosario García-Montero.

[3] It was also selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Instead, she resides with her remarried mother and stepfather in a gated property on the outskirts of Lima, cared for primarily by servants while they travel abroad.

The film begins with a picture show and an unseen narrator recounting the fatal sacrifices former Peruvian military leaders made for their country.

A driver picks her up from school referring to her as Miss Cayetana, but she is unfazed by the status and remains mostly silent on the way home though at one point when a beggar approaches car she offers him her medication and comments that it suppresses the appetite.

When Cayetana finally makes her way to the maternity ward and nursery, she picks the wrong baby out as her mother's son for some reason and hisses with obvious jealousy that she will not be upstaged by him.