Both a war movie and a movie about a conflict involving lots of hatred on all sides, Guerreros features intense and realistic violence.
Insurgents are seen torturing a man.
A Spanish soldier is brutally victimized by insurgents while trying to rescue the torture victim.
A simple misunderstanding between foreign soldiers and local insurgents leads to an intense firefight with a great many fatalities.
A female interpreter steps on a landmine and is terribly injured. The Spanish soldier who is sent to look after her is too afraid to rescue her, so he suffocates her to death.
It is implied that insurgents gangrape a captured female Spanish soldier.
A civilian about to discover the Spaniards hiding in his farmstead is stabbed to death in a frenzy.
A mass grave and scattered human remains are seen, ethnic cleansings are implied.