Topic: Cuban Revolution

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Luz María Collazo · José Gallardo · Raúl García · Sergio Corrieri

Plot It explores the seductive and decadent world of Batista's Cuba and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. Through four stories of the revolution, Mikhail Kalatozov takes the...

Direction Estela Bravo

Cast Fidel Castro · Nelson Mandela · Vlasta Vrana

Plot Documentary about Fidel Castro, covering 40 years of Cuban Revolution. Rare Fidel Castro footage: he appears swimming with a bodyguard, visiting his childhood home and school, playing with his friend...

Direction Néstor Almendros · Orlando Jiménez Leal

Cast Lorenzo Monreal · Luis Lazo · Rafael de Palet · Jorge Lago

Plot The documentary interviews Cuban refugees to explore the Cuban government's imprisonment of homosexuals, political dissidents, and Jehovah's Witnesses into concentration camps under its policy of Military Units to Aid Protection.

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

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

Plot 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...

Direction Tristán Bauer

Direction Agnès Varda

Plot A half-hour photo montage made up of 1500 out of over 4000 pictures Agnes Varda took while vacationing in Cuba. It deals with the revolution of Fidel Castro and his...

Direction Rebeca Chávez

Direction Pavel Giroud

Cast Heberto Padilla · Jorge Edwards · Juan Goytisolo · Alvaro Vargas Llosa

Plot Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers’ Union where he pronounces a statement of “heartfelt self-criticism”, declares himself to...

Direction Sergio Gregori Marugán

Plot A faithful portrait of Cuba's recent history and of the efforts of the American administration to gain influence in the caribbean politics. From the War of Independence and the triumph...

Direction Chris Marker

Direction Octavio Cortázar

Cast Salvador Wood · Patricio Wood · René de la Cruz · Luis Rielo

Plot In 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...

Direction Manuel Pérez

Cast Sergio Corrieri · Reynaldo Miravalles · Rigoberto Águila · Mario Balmaseda

Plot Set in 1964, counter-revolutionary forces continue to exert influence in Cuba's Escambray mountains.

Direction Humberto Solás

Cast Raquel Revuelta · Eslinda Núñez · Adela Legrá · Eduardo Moure

Plot 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 1930's, and the 1960's.

Direction Fernando Pérez

Cast Daniel Romero Bildaín · Rolando Brito · Broselianda Hernández · Enrique Lázaro Piedra

Direction Fernando Pérez

Cast Luis Alberto García · Isabel Santos · Miguel Gutiérrez · Susana Pérez

Plot One of the most commercially successful and 'Hollywood' of all Cuban films, this tense, action-packed political thriller chronicles the romance between two young revolutionaries in 1950's Havana as they fight...

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

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

Plot 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...

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast Bertina Acevedo · Enrique Fong · Miriam Gómez · Francisco Lago

Direction Steven Soderbergh

Cast Benicio del Toro · Demian Bichir · Elvira Mínguez · Jorge Perugorría

Plot PART ONE: On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal...

Direction Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

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

Plot 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...

Direction Rebeca Chávez

Cast Rafael Ernesto Hernández · Eman Xor Oña · Yori Gómez · Mario Guerra