Direction: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Memories of Underdevelopment

1968 · Movie · 97 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Daisy Granados · Sergio Corrieri · Eslinda Núñez · Omar Valdés

Synopsis Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba, from the Castro Revolution to the missile crisis, the effect of living...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Strawberry and Chocolate

1993 · Movie · 111 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · Juan Carlos Tabío

Cast Jorge Perugorría · Vladimir Cruz · Mirta Ibarra · Francisco Gattorno

Synopsis David (Vladimir Cruz) is a student and ardent Communist whose personal life is in something of a slump; his girlfriend recently left him to marry another man after he took her to a hotel in hopes of seducing her, and...

7.2

18K votes

7.2

18K votes

Cumbite

1964 · Movie · 82 min. · Cuba

6.6

47 votes

6.6

47 votes

The Twelve Chairs

1962 · Movie · 94 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Enrique Santiesteban · Reynaldo Miravalles · René Sánchez · Idalberto Delgado

Synopsis 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...

6.6

255 votes

6.6

255 votes

Guantanamera

1995 · Movie · 96 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · Juan Carlos Tabío

Cast Jorge Perugorría · Carlos Cruz · Mirta Ibarra · Raúl Eguren

Synopsis When Aunt Yoyita dies during a visit to Gina in Guantánamo, Gina, along with Yoyita's childhood sweetheart, the aging Cándido, must take the body to Havana. To their annoyance, Gina's overbearing husband Adolfo, a punctilious undertaker with political ambitions, takes...

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

The Survivors

1979 · Movie · 130 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Enrique Santiesteban · Juanita Caldevilla · Germán Pinelli · Ana Viña

Synopsis Following the triumph of the revolution in 1959, many families left Cuba in an attempt to preserve their wealth and privilege. This dark comedy tells the story of one of these bourgeois families of aristocratic origin, which decided to remain...

6.4

118 votes

6.4

118 votes

El Mégano (S)

1955 · Documentary · 25 min. · Cuba

Direction Julio García Espinosa · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Synopsis A denunciation of the inhumane living and working conditions of coal in the Ciénaga de Zapata, on the southern coast of Cuba in the mid-twentieth century.

6.2

50 votes

6.2

50 votes

6.1

74 votes

Hasta cierto punto

1983 · Movie · 88 min. · Cuba

5.8

86 votes

5.8

86 votes

5.4

127 votes

Not rated

El arte del tabaco (S)

1974 · Documentary · 6 min. · Cuba

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Synopsis "The art of tobacco", one of the first works of the great producer Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, captures the beauty of the production of tobacco. Images of hands selecting the leaves and twisting the cigars are interspersed with images coming from...

Not rated

Not rated

General Assembly (S)

1960 · Documentary · 14 min. · Cuba

Not rated

Not rated

Esta tierra nuestra (S)

1959 · Documentary · 19 min. · Cuba

Not rated

Not rated