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Cuba Cinema
Top 51 films from Cuba (out of 51 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| The Last Supper | 1,976 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Drama | 7.9 | 22 | Spanish | A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. |
| I Am Cuba | 1,964 | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Drama | 7.8 | 242 | Spanish | Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army. |
| Oceans Are the Real Continents | 2,023 | Tommaso Santambrogio | Drama | 7.8 | 10 | Spanish | Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, live their relationship made up of small gestures and everyday life among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly woman now retired, tries to survive by selling peanuts and spends her days listening to the radio and reading old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old friends, go to school and dream of emigrating together to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. Against the backdrop of San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, these three narratives and their respective worlds unfold. Over this mosaic of contemporaneity, however, brought to life through the characters' memories, hovers the specter of separation, the true great scourge of Cuban society. |
| Music School | 1,955 | Miguel Zacarías | Comedy, Family | 7.7 | 29 | Spanish | |
| Habanastation | 2,011 | Ian Padrón | Fantasy, Family, Drama | 7.7 | 14 | Spanish | Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids. |
| The Twelve Chairs | 1,962 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Comedy | 7.6 | 12 | Spanish | When 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 all of her treasures in 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 treasures he believes rightfully belong to him. |
| Cuba and the Cameraman | 2,017 | Jon Alpert | Documentary | 7.5 | 117 | English | This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades. |
| The Oath | 2,010 | Laura Poitras | Documentary | 7.4 | 26 | English | Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| Buena Vista Social Club: Adios | 2,017 | Lucy Walker | Documentary, Music | 7.4 | 22 | English | In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista Social Club. Two decades since that fateful first session, we catch up to these master musicians, as they reflect on the magical unfolding of their lives—from humble origins to the evolution and surprising revival of their careers, all against the backdrop of Cuba’s dramatic history. Brimming with unseen concert, rehearsal, and archival footage, this film is an emotional, shimmering celebration of music’s power to transcend age, ideologies, and class, and to connect us to each other through our souls. |
| Hello Cubans | 1,963 | Agnès Varda | Documentary | 7.3 | 53 | French | A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island. |
| Death of a Bureaucrat | 1,966 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Comedy | 7.3 | 46 | Spanish | A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019. |
| Por primera vez | 1,969 | Octavio Cortázar | Documentary | 7.3 | 12 | Spanish | In 1967, Cuban documentary filmmaker Octavio Cortazar followed a travelling projectionist troupe whose mission was to show moving pictures to rural communities for the first time. Cortazar’s short film documents one audience’s response to its first film: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. |
| The Last Match | 2,013 | Antonio Hens | Drama, Romance | 7.2 | 159 | Spanish | Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails to get the stroke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his older, wealthy girlfriend (whom he hooked up to pay for a lavish life in the big city), and the work he does for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets. |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | 1,968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Drama | 7.2 | 88 | Spanish | In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself? |
| Behavior | 2,014 | Ernesto Daranas | Drama | 7.2 | 71 | Spanish | Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but after Carmela suffers an accident, things get complicated… |
| More Vampires in Havana | 2,003 | Juan Padrón | Animation | 7.1 | 11 | Spanish | In 1923 the scientist Von Dracula invented Vampisol, a drink that allowed vampires to live in the sun. La Capa Nostra and the European Vampire Group confront each other in Havana to control the Vampisol, but Pepe, Von Dracula's nephew, sang the Vampisol formula for free on Radio Vampiro Internacional. Now Pepe must face the Nazi vampires, who use the most powerful Vampisol: El Vampiyaba. |
| Strawberry and Chocolate | 1,993 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Comedy, Drama | 7 | 82 | Spanish | In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego attempts to seduce straitlaced David, an idealistic young communist, and fails dismally. But David conspires to be "friends" with Diego so he can monitor the artist's subversive life for the state. As Diego and David discuss politics, individuality and personal expression in Castro's Cuba, a genuine friendship develops between the two. |
| Hasta la Victoria Siempre | 1,967 | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary | 7 | 17 | Spanish | Created within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara’s death, Hasta la Victoria Siempre is a Cuban documentary tribute that combines archival footage, speeches, and images of revolutionary struggle to commemorate Guevara and reaffirm the ideals of the Cuban Revolution. |
| Twilight | 2,015 | Juan Pablo Daranas Molina | N/A | 6.8 | 65 | Spanish | Alicia, a circus clown, dreams of being an actress. When the circus arrives in a remote village she meets Abelito, a boy with a skin disorder that prevents him from going out in the sun. As Abelito looks forward to the circus, Alicia anxiously awaits news from Havana about a casting. |
| The Princess and the Magic Mirror | 2,014 | Ernesto Padrón | Fantasy, Animation, Adventure, Family | 6.8 | 31 | Spanish | Poor farmer's son Tom Little may be small, but what he lacks in brawn, he more than makes up for in brains and bravery. When a magic mirror shows him that the love of his life is no less than the beautiful princess, he's determined to win her heart. Meanwhile, a revengeful witch has conjured up a giant tree that covers the royal palace and destroys the court's fountain. Having heard that the King is offering his daughter's hand and half the kingdom to whoever manages to free the palace from this spell, Tom tries his luck against all odds. |
| The First Charge of the Machete | 1,969 | Manuel Octavio Gómez | Drama | 6.8 | 11 | Spanish | Cuban peasants wield machetes in a violent uprising against Spanish authorities in the late 19th century. |
| Living Dangerously | 1,987 | Fernando Pérez | Drama, War, History, Romance | 6.8 | 10 | Spanish | In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units. |
| Guava Island | 2,019 | Hiro Murai | Comedy, Thriller, Music | 6.7 | 337 | English | Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner. |
| The Waiting List | 2,000 | Juan Carlos Tabío | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 22 | Spanish | At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave. |
| My Twentieth Century | 1,989 | Ildikó Enyedi | Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction | 6.4 | 45 | Hungarian | A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. T... |
| Lucía | 1,968 | Humberto Solás | Drama | 6.4 | 29 | Spanish | Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the 1890s, the 1930s, and the 1960s. |
| I'm Going to Santiago | 1,964 | Sara Gómez | Documentary | 6.4 | 16 | Spanish | This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a view of Cuba as a picturesque country, the product of an earthy mix of black and criollo cultures. The film uses historical images which portray the end of the eighteenth century when Haitian slave owners fled with their slaves to Cuba after the Haitian Revolution. |
| One Way or Another | 1,977 | Sara Gómez | Drama | 6.3 | 29 | Spanish | In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba. |
| Suite Habana | 2,003 | Fernando Pérez | Documentary | 6.3 | 15 | Spanish | Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music. |
| Hanoi, Tuesday 13th | 1,969 | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary | 6.3 | 12 | Spanish | In December 1967, a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, travelled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this short documentary all in one day - Tuesday 13. The film is the story of that day and what happened to the North Vietnamese people in the course of it. |
| Juan of the Dead | 2,011 | Alejandro Brugués | Horror, Comedy | 6.2 | 289 | Spanish | While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones." |
| Now! | 1,965 | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary, Music | 6.2 | 43 | Spanish | Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s. |
| Vampires in Havana | 1,985 | Juan Padrón | Comedy, Animation, Horror | 6.1 | 47 | Spanish | Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in sunlight. When the professor announces his intention to donate the formula free-of-charge to vampires all over the world, the Vampire Mafia from Chicago and the European Group of Vampires from Düsseldorf try to muscle in and steal the formula. The action escalates crazily as an assortment of bad guys, police, vampires and other monsters, and our hero and his girlfriend are all caught up in the chase. |
| Defiant Souls | 2,019 | Laura Cazador | Drama, History | 6.1 | 14 | Spanish | Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeon, arrives on the island, a Spanish province, hoping to find his son, who has been kidnapped… |
| 79 Springs | 1,969 | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary | 6 | 25 | Spanish | This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism. |
| Queen of Condoms | 2,007 | Silvana Ceschi | Documentary | 6 | 22 | Spanish | Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education Minister. After 20 years in Cuba, Krause set the Cuban sexual revolution in motion: in favor of a woman's right to sexual fulfillment and legal abortion, and against exclusion of homosexuals, she acquired the title "Queen of Condoms". A film about potent female agitators, staunch macho men and Caribbean love lives. |
| Sergio and Sergei | 2,018 | Ernesto Daranas | Drama | 5.8 | 31 | Spanish | In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and Sergei, a Soviet cosmonaut stranded in the Mir space station, share a common passion: amateur radio. Through this hobby, both men will be able to help each other in facing the dramatic changes of their countries. |
| One Night | 2,012 | Lucy Mulloy | Drama | 5.7 | 42 | Spanish | In Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives. |
| LBJ | 1,968 | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary | 5.7 | 19 | Spanish | This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement. |
| The Headless Rider | 1,973 | Vladimir Vaynshtok | Romance, Adventure, Western | 5.7 | 17 | Russian | The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Co... |
| Last Days in Havana | 2,016 | Fernando Pérez | Drama | 5.7 | 15 | Spanish | The story of a friendship in a city on the verge of substantial change. Miguel dreams of settling in New York while he waits for a visa that never seems to arrive, and Diego, a HIV-positive homosexual man, puts his dreams and cheerfulness to good use in his struggle to carry on enjoying every single day of his life from a rickety old bed in his small bedroom. |
| 7 Days in Havana | 2,012 | Laurent Cantet | Drama | 5.6 | 112 | Spanish | A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba. |
| Winds of Havana | 2,016 | Félix Viscarret | Thriller, Drama, Crime | 5.6 | 15 | Spanish | The killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended. |
| Ferozz: The Wild Red Riding Hood | 2,010 | Jorge Molina | Fantasy, Horror | 5.2 | 16 | Spanish | A young, attractive widow is protected from her vicious mother-in-law, by a male relative who practices Satanism, and lusts after the old woman's sexy adolescent granddaughter. |
| Affair in Havana | 1,957 | László Benedek | Crime | 5.2 | 10 | English | While in Havana, a musician gets involved with a crippled man and his beautiful wife... with deadly results. |
| Banderas, the Tyrant | 1,993 | José Luis García Sánchez | Drama | 5.1 | 11 | Spanish | In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally. |
| Day of the Flowers | 2,013 | John Roberts | Romance, Comedy, Drama | 5 | 13 | English | Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions. |
| Horn of Plenty | 2,008 | Juan Carlos Tabío | Comedy, Drama | 5 | 12 | Spanish | An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families. |
| Virgin Rose | 2,006 | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Drama, Crime, Romance | 4.8 | 12 | Spanish | Simón transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. When he is discovered by the coastguard, a young sailor, named Andrés saves his life. But when Andrés falls for Marie—a young protegée of Simón's—conflict erupts. |
| Loving Cuba | 2,019 | Johan Nijenhuis | Comedy, Romance | 4.3 | 13 | Dutch | While a mother only just finds out that her daughter's dating a Cuban, she realises her daughter will get married on Cuba too. To hinder the failure-designated marriage, she immediately gets on a flight to Cuba. |
| Santo vs. Infernal Men | 1,961 | Joselito Rodríguez | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 3.8 | 14 | Spanish | Agent Joaquin recalls his latest mission while lying wounded in an ambulance: Joaquin has infiltrated into a band of smugglers. When the villains learn the truth about him, they kidnap Jouqin's fiancee. Santo comes to her rescue and fights the band. |
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