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- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsCameron MitchellAllison HayesEduardo NoriegaA Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.
- DirectorFernando PérezStarsLuis Alberto GarcíaIsabel SantosRené LosadaBefore the military coup in Cuba, a group of people have a clandestine printing press, used to print subversive pamphlets against the government.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsCésar ÉvoraRaquel RevueltaDaisy GranadosJavier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.
- StarsKen EakenJaime SuchlickiJean-Pierre ClercThis documentary series recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.
- DirectorHumberto SolásStarsDaisy GranadosImanol AriasMiguel BenavidesCecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race in violent 19th-century Cuba, is raised by her mother and grandmother as a courtesan. Soon, pale-skinned Cecilia catches the eye of the estate owner's son, Leonardo. Cecilia bows to Leonardo's demands provided he agrees to shelter a wounded member of the resistance movement at his home. Leonardo's wealthy father, Cándido de Gamboa, arranges the engagement of his son to a white girl of their own class. Cecilia tries to stop the wedding with tragic results.
- DirectorOctavio CortázarStarsPatricio WoodSalvador WoodRené de la CruzIn the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, where squads of anti-Castro guerrilla operate; he happens to teach the wife of a squad leader; trouble and confrontation ensues when government militia makes the little town its operations base.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsEnrique SantistebanReynaldo MiravallesRené SánchezWhen her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death, her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the jewels he believes rightfully belong to him.
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsAudie MurphyEddie AlbertPatricia OwensThe Cuban misadventures of a Florida smuggler, at the time of the Cuban Revolution.
- DirectorGuy FerlandStarsDiego LunaRomola GaraiSela WardHigh school senior Katey moves to Havana in November 1958, when her dad gets a promotion at Ford. She meets a local waiter, who introduces her to sensual Cuban music/dance. They enter a big dance contest for the prize when he gets fired.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorBob YariStarsGiovanni RibisiJoely RichardsonAdrian SparksIn 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsJennifer JonesJohn GarfieldPedro ArmendárizIn 1930's Cuba, a bank clerk and an American mercenary assist a revolutionary group in a plan to kill the President but the Cuban Secret Police chief and the dictator's military complicate the plan's execution.
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsJavier BardemJohnny DeppOlatz López GarmendiaThe life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
- DirectorErrol FlynnStarsErrol FlynnBeverly AadlandFlorence AadlandDocumentary shot during the Cuban revolution
- DirectorBarry MahonStarsErrol FlynnBeverly AadlandJohn McKayErrol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsSean ConneryBrooke AdamsJack WestonA British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsRobert RedfordLena OlinAlan ArkinIn 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.
- DirectorMiguel CoyulaStarsBill ClintonFidel CastroTrent HarrisAn intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.
- DirectorDavid AttwoodStarsVíctor Huggo MartinGael García BernalPatricia VelasquezFidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
- DirectorAndy GarciaStarsAndy GarciaInés SastreBill MurrayA wealthy Havana club owner and his family are torn apart by the violent sociopolitical upheaval brought about by the transition from the dictatorial regime of Batista to the Marxist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1950s Cuba.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJulia OrmondBenicio Del ToroOscar IsaacIn 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
- DirectorJuan GerardStarsHarvey KeitelIben HjejleDiana BrachoThe year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
- DirectorRobert De NiroStarsMatt DamonAngelina JolieRobert De NiroThe tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsGael García BernalRodrigo de la SernaMía MaestroErnesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsAlan LaddRossana PodestàLloyd NolanA gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the military, is swept deeper into a revolution in Cuba after he crosses paths with an enemy from the past and a beautiful revolutionary and her son.
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsRené LavanMayte VilánMiguel GutiérrezGustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a psychiatrist, can make four times as much playing piano at a hotel for foreigners; his sweetheart, Yolanda, wants a career as a dancer and longs for the riches of Miami; his younger brother Bobby simply wants to play rock music, and as a result is in constant trouble with the authorities. When Bobby takes a shocking step of revolt and Gustavo is refused service at a foreigners-only bar, the contradictions in his resolve to become a "new man" push him to the breaking point.
- DirectorJim PurdyStarsJuan RiedingerElisabetta FantonePaulino NunesHavana 1957, "Sin Capital of the World" - Mafia run nightclubs, sex, drugs, booze and gambling. President Batista heads a dictatorship benefiting wealthy Yankee corporations; student radicals rally with the poor, and revolutionaries. Ruben Velez, a young cop believes in law and order where his fellow officers control the population with torture, intimidation, and murder. His partner, a dirty cop cold-bloodily murders a student and Velez's outrage is met with indifference and a warning: play the game or suffer the consequences. Juliana a beautiful Tropicana dancer identifies the corpse of a dancer whose murder Velez investigates. Juliana, a mobster's lover, feeds Velez inside information on the mob and its business---is she carrying out some elaborate game? Playing off the cop against the mob? Or is she falling in love with Velez.
- DirectorRolf LosanskyStarsPeter DonatHeinz TischerGünter Naumann
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsDemián BichirRodrigo SantoroBenicio Del ToroIn 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsPenélope CruzEdgar RamírezGael García BernalThe story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
- DirectorBen von GrafensteinStarsUlrich NoethenBritta HammelsteinJohannes KienastThe movie is based on the real story of 937 German Jewish refugees leaving from Hamburg in 1939, far from Nazism to Cuba. Their journey for freedom became an Odyssey on the Atlantic ocean.
- DirectorMaziar BahariStarsDon HaigManuel Benitez Jr.Kathleen FeeThe ship St. Louis left Nazi Germany on May 13, 1939, with 937 German Jews bound for Cuba. Most had sold all their belongings to book passage, pay off corrupt German officials, and buy visas to Cuba. Hope turned to despair when Havana suddenly barred their entry. For thirty excruciating days, the St. Louis wandered the seas and was refused haven by every country in the Americas. Finally, they returned to Europe, where the refugees were accepted by Holland, France, Belgium, and England. Four months later, World War II began and many of the passengers died in Nazi death camps. Includes archival footage, photographs, interviews with nine survivors, and readings from the diary of the ship's captain.
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsFaye DunawayOskar WernerLee GrantThe tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaJuan Carlos TabíoStarsJorge PerugorríaVladimir CruzMirta IbarraStory of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsOmar SharifJack PalanceCesare DanovaAn intentionally noncommittal version of the Cuban revolution told through flashbacks, the film recounts Che's switch from doctor to politico in Castro's campaign.
- StarsJose BasultoNapoleon VilaboaRicardo AlarcónCuba's revolutionary story is one of much fervor. Fidel Castro had one objective: the liberation of a Communist Cuba. Castro's ability to form key strategic alliances enabled him to stand at the precipice of realizing his dream for Cuba.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven BauerIn 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
- DirectorPaolo HeuschStarsFrancisco RabalJohn IrelandSusanna MartinkováThe story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
- DirectorChristian BaudissinStarsHans ErtlMonika ErtlIn 1971 she was 'wanted' for political murder, because she had assassinated a Bolivian Colonel, who represented the oppressive military dictatorship in the South American country. In 1973 she was ambushed and shot by the police forces led by the notorious Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France - see also Hôtel Terminus (1988). Monika had tried to abduct him to bring him to France and have him accused for his crimes. Who was Monika Ertl, who is said to have met Ernesto Che Guevara? The documentary follows her traces, interviewing her family as well as her former fellow combatants.
- DirectorJunji SakamotoStarsJoe OdagiriAlexis Díaz de VillegasRoberto EspinosaThe first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters lead by Che Guevara in 1966 and was martyred at the age of twenty five. Aiming to rid his world of injustice and the gap between the rich and powerful and the rest of us the inspiring film reminds the viewer of the need for living with a purpose. Ernesto means 'serious,' but was also Che Guevara's first name.
- DirectorAlice de AndradeThe recent transformations of Cuban society through love stories of three Cuban couples, filmed over twenty years.
- DirectorArmando CapóStarsDamián González GuerreroAlejandro Guerrero MachadoGlenda Delgado DominguezCuba, summer 1994. In the midst of Periodo Especial, one of the greatest crises in the country's history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally, never sure if they'll make it out alive. With holidays starting, Carlos plunges into a carefree August, wandering around with his friends and falling in love for the first time. Little does he know about the country's uncertain future, until one by one, neighbors and friends leave in search of a better life, friendships break apart and families split up. In this hot summer, the world of Carlos will turn upside down.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsKevin CostnerBruce GreenwoodShawn DriscollIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- DirectorEnrique Pineda BarnetStarsBeatriz ValdésOmar ValdésCésar ÉvoraStory shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.
- DirectorPavel GiroudStarsCamila ArtecheArmando Miguel GómezBroselianda HernándezA disgraced boxer gradually forms an unlikely friendship with an HIV positive patient he is tasked with monitoring at a military-run sanitarium in 1980s Cuba.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorJorge Luis SánchezStarsRakel AdrianaUlyk AnelloRenny ArozarenaBased on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of his success in Mexico. Moré is caught in the events connected to Batista's coup in Cuba. Also, he tours Venezuela, where he suffers the machinations of a vengeful businessman. After collapsing and being hospitalised, Moré swears off alcohol. Some years later, he encounters his old band-mate Monchy, fallen on hard times.
- DirectorJuan Carlos Cremata MalbertiIraida Malberti CabreraStarsMalú Tarrau BrocheJorge MiloLuisa María Jiménez RodríquezIn a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.
- DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsVíctor LaplaceIvonne López ArenalMiguel PanekeMatanzas, Cuba, 1913. Two young people who are in love communicate through letters written by penman. When the young man leaves town, to become a pilot, the girl discovers she is really in love with the one who wrote the letters.
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraKaty JuradoSalvador SánchezIt tells the story of a dictatorship. Its protagonist is the sum and essence of several of the rulers who have exercised absolute power in Latin American countries.
- DirectorMichael GassertSami KhanStarsVictor BaróCarlos O. GonzálezHappy OliverosThree young Cuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their dreams of playing in the Major Leagues.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsWilliam DevaneRalph BellamyHoward Da SilvaIn October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- DirectorSantiago RíosTeodoro RíosStarsCarlos FuentesCarlos Acosta-MilianManolin AlvarezCUBA 1898. La guerra cambió su vida, el amor cambió su destino. Carlos Fuentes encabeza el reparto de Mambi. Es Goyo, un joven jornalero canario al que obligan a alistarse en el ejército para luchar contra los mambises, guerrilleros independentistas, levantados en armas contra España. Goyo es uno de los miles de jóvenes de baja extracción social que, a finales de siglo, fueron reclutados a la fuerza y condenados a pelear hasta la muerte en una isla tan lejana como bella. La historia de Goyo es la de un desertor, pero podría ser la de cualquiera de los isleños - como se conoce a los emigrantes canarios - que durante el siglo XIX convirtieron a Cuba en el destino preferido de su diáspora. Muchos de estos isleños acabarían integrándose con la población criolla, fomentando un nuevo mestizaje y defendiendo los intereses de Cuba frente a la colonia. A través de los protagonistas de uno y otro bando, Mambi la doble cara de un espejo con intereses irreconciliables: España, en el ocaso de su imperio; Cuba, en el inicio de su independencia, y Estados Unidos, el país que, a la postre, sacaría más beneficio de un conflicto que espoleó y que le era ajeno. La película de Teodoro y Santiago Ríos no es solo una recreación histórica. Aunque la avala una cuidada ambientación, Mambi es, en palabras de sus directores, una película de antihéroes vapuleados por las situaciones y los acontecimientos; una historia de amor y aventuras y una reflexión sobre el destino del hombre en épocas de crisis, precisamente cuando se ponen a prueba los valores humanos.
- DirectorManuel Octavio GómezStarsAdolfo LlauradóJosé RodríguezIdalia AnreusBoth Spanish soldiers and Cuban peasants recall the bloody attack by machete-slicing Cubans in the late 19th century. The officers discuss the attack and the implications their defeat will have as they dread the review from Madrid. Soon Cuba would break away from Spain, largely with the help of William Randolph Hearst who helped to facilitate the Spanish-American War. The film also goes over the history, use and care of the machete, which came out of the sugar cane fields to become a deadly weapon of hand-to-hand combat.
- DirectorEytan RockawayStarsHarvey KeitelSam WorthingtonJohn MagaroWhen the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated by the Feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster reveals the untold truth about his life as the boss of the National Crime Syndicate.
- StarsTom BerengerSam ElliottGary BuseyUndersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called "The Rough Riders" to fight in the Spanish-American War.
- DirectorSergio GiralStarsSamuel ClaxtonMiguel NavarroRoberto BlancoDuring the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows: traitors are in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish.
- DirectorManuel de la PedrosaStarsLeopoldo FernándezAníbal de MarMiguel HerreroWhen a Spaniard decides to illegally enter La Habana by swimming, two rogues help him to find work in a sugar mill, where the emigrant falls in love with the plant owner's daughter.
- DirectorFrancisco MansoStarsElmano SanchoMafalda BanquartJorge PintoThe film is liberally inspired by the period when Eça de Queiroz was Portuguese Consul in Cuba and still a Spanish colony. Eça de Queiroz struggles against local authorities to defend Chinese workers from slavery on sugar plantations.
- DirectorEmilio FernándezÍñigo de MartinoStarsRoberto CañedoGina CabreraJulio CapoteFor the centenary of Cuban patriot Jose Marti, the 1950s pre-Castro dictator Batista collected funds for an official film commemoration and hired renowned director Fernandez from Mexico to erect this memorial work.