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20 titles
1
I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba

1964 · 2h 21m · Movie

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

8.2
2
Juan of the Dead

Juan of the Dead

2011 · 1h 32m · Movie

A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the government.

6.4
3
Strawberry & Chocolate

Strawberry & Chocolate

1993 · 1h 48m · Movie

Story 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.

7.4
4
Memories of Underdevelopment

Memories of Underdevelopment

1968 · 1h 37m · Movie

A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.

7.6
5
Yuli

Yuli

2018 · 1h 55m · Movie

The director Icíar Bollaín presents the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, a legend on the dance world and the first black dancer to perform some of the most famous ballet roles. A dancer who did not want to dance.

7.0
6
Behavior

Behavior

2014 · 1h 48m · Movie

Aging 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.

7.5
7
Death of a Bureaucrat

Death of a Bureaucrat

1966 · 1h 25m · Movie

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.

7.6
8
The Waiting List

The Waiting List

2000 · 1h 45m · Movie

A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the ...

7.0
9
Lucia

Lucia

1968 · 2h 40m · Movie

Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.

7.1
10
The Battle of Chile: Part III

The Battle of Chile: Part III

1979 · 1h 20m · Movie

This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d...

7.6
11
Sergio and Sergei

Sergio and Sergei

2018 · 1h 33m · Movie

A Russian cosmonaut is stranded on The Mir Space Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

6.5
12
79 primaveras

79 primaveras

1969 · 25m · Movie

An agit-prop documentary marking the death of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chí Minh, using found footage to link his work to worldwide political movements including the Cuban revolution and resistance within the USA to the Vie...

6.8
13
Alsino and the Condor

Alsino and the Condor

1982 · 1h 29m · Movie

Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsin...

6.2
14
LBJ

LBJ

1968 · 18m · Movie

A montage of 1960s America, all focused on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.

6.6
15
Virgin Rose

Virgin Rose

2006 · 1h 40m · Movie

Simon transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. He is discovered by the coastguard and Andrés, a young sailor, saves his life. When he falls for a young protegée of Simon conflict erupts.

5.2
16
Hanoi, martes 13

Hanoi, martes 13

1969 · 38m · Movie

A short film which documents the lives of the people of Hanoi which took place on March 13.

6.7
17
Cecilia

Cecilia

1982 · 2h 7m · Movie

Cecilia, 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 d...

5.9
18
Hasta la victoria siempre

Hasta la victoria siempre

1967 · 19m · Movie

Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara's death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingl...

6.8
20
Riquimbili o El mundo de Nelsito

Riquimbili o El mundo de Nelsito

2023 · 1h 40m · Movie

Nelsito, a 16-year-old autistic boy, runs away from home but is the victim of a car accident. While everyone is worried about him, he records every detail of his imagination, telling us about the dark and hidden side of those arou...

7.8