Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging its Cuban audience with great humour. Based on the short story by Cuban writer Senel Paz.

Cuban Food Stories

2018

English

7.2

♡ 6

60%

Asori Soto Director

Marc Schöttner as German Voice Actor

Danilo Ottaviani as Italian Narrator

After ten years living as an expat in the United States, Asori Soto decides to return to his homeland of Cuba to search for the missing flavors of his childhood. This is a journey to discover culinary traditions long thought lost due to the hardship that Cuba survived after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Forbidden

1932

English

6.9

♡ 5

63%

Frank Capra Director

Adolphe Menjou as Bob

Barbara Stanwyck as Lulu

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

Bill Elliott as Reporter

On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.

Night Is Not Eternal

2024

English

6.1

♡ 2

cuba

Documentary

political activism

Nanfu Wang Director

Nanfu Wang as Self

Ofelia Acevedo as Self

Sayli Navarro Alvarez as Self

Rosa María Payá as Self

For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace Prize nominated activist, Oswaldo Payá, in Rosa's fight for democratic change in Cuba. Rosa's narrative is interwoven with Wang's poignant reflections on her Chinese upbringing and her observations of eroding democratic norms in the U.S., revealing unsettling similarities to the authoritarian system she left behind.

Sicko

2007

English

8.0

♡ 18

91%

Michael Moore Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Hillary Clinton as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Ronald Reagan as Self

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

GoldenEye

1995

English

7.2

♡ 130

80%

secret intelligence service

Thriller

Martin Campbell Director

Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan

Joe Don Baker as Jack Wade

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond

Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.

The Road to Guantanamo

2006

English

7.4

♡ 3

86%

Michael Winterbottom Director

Sara Stewart as Interrogator #6

Mark Holden as Kandahar Interrogator #2

George W. Bush as Self

Riz Ahmed as Shafiq

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

Amistad

1997

English

7.3

♡ 56

78%

Steven Spielberg Director

Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun

Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams

Matthew McConaughey as Roger Sherman Baldwin

Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

Che: Part One

2008

English

7.1

♡ 46

67%

75%

biography

Biography

central intelligence agency (cia)

Steven Soderbergh Director

Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto Che Guevara

Oscar Isaac as Interpreter

Stephen Mailer as Paul Niven

Victor Rasuk as Rogelio Acevedo

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Scarface

1983

English

8.3

♡ 422

79%

Brian De Palma Director

Michelle Pfeiffer as Elvira Hancock

Steven Bauer as Manny Ribera

Gary Carlos Cervantes as Shooter #1

Al Pacino as Tony Montana

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Original Sin

2001

English

6.0

♡ 102

12%

Michael Cristofer Director

Thomas Jane as Billy / Walter Downs / Mephisto

Angelina Jolie as Julia Russell / Bonny Castle

Antonio Banderas as Luis Antonio Vargas

Lisa Owen as Margareta - Stage

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

Buena Vista Social Club

1999

English

7.6

♡ 5

92%

Wim Wenders Director

Ry Cooder as Self

Joachim Cooder as Self

Juan de Marcos González as Self

Heitor Goldflus as Self - Man at a Manhattan Street

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

Bad Boys II

2003

English

6.6

♡ 259

23%

Michael Bay Director

Michael Bay as Crappy Car Driver

Will Smith as Detective Mike Lowrey

Megan Fox as Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall

Reynaldo Gallegos as Tito Vargas

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Jeronimo

2019

English

8.1

♡ 3

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government official in the Castro regime, until he rediscovers his ethnic roots and dedicates his later life to reconstructing his Korean Cuban identity. After Jerónimo's death, younger Korean Cubans recognize his legacy, but it is not until they are presented with the opportunity to visit South Korea that questions about their mixed identity resurface.

Che: Part Two

2008

English

6.8

♡ 31

80%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Steven Soderbergh Director

Armando Riesco as Benigno

Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto Che Guevara

Matt Damon as Fr. Schwartz

Franka Potente as Tania

After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. Through this story, we come to understand how Che remains a symbol of idealism and heroism that lives in the hearts of people around the world.

The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon

2016

English

7.8

♡ 8

89%

Paul Dugdale Director

Mick Jagger as Self

Keith Richards as Self

Chuck Leavell as Self - keyboards

Karl Denson as Self - saxophone

The historic concert appearance of the British band in Cuba on March 25th, 2016. The "Concert for Amity" was and played at the Ciudad Deportiva Stadium - the bands first show in Cuba and the finale of their South America Tour.

Creature from the Haunted Sea

1961

English

3.5

♡ 5

20%

Roger Corman Director

Karl Lukas as Bartender (scenes added later for television showings)

Richard Sinatra as Man at Pay Phone (scenes added later for television showings)

Charles Macaulay as Man with Walking Stick

Betsy Jones-Moreland as Mary-Belle Monahan

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

The Godfather Part II

1974

English

9.0

♡ 576

96%

97%

Action

based on novel or book

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Carmine Caridi as Carmine Rosato

Diane Keaton as Kay

Al Pacino as Michael

Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

2004

English

5.9

♡ 58

24%

Guy Ferland Director

John Slattery as Bert Miller

Diego Luna as Javier Suarez

Sela Ward as Jeannie Miller

Polly Cole as Polly

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.

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Night Is Not Eternal

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Amistad

Che: Part One

Scarface

Original Sin

Buena Vista Social Club

Bad Boys II

Jeronimo

Che: Part Two

The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon

Creature from the Haunted Sea

The Godfather Part II

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights