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8.2

♡ 37

100%

This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

Captain from Castile

1947

6.8

♡ 6

62%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Henry King Director

Thomas Gomez as Father Bartolome Romero

Lee J. Cobb as Juan Garcia

Alan Mowbray as Prof. Botello

Robert Adler as Reyes

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...

Havana

1990

6.1

♡ 18

28%

Sydney Pollack Director

Raul Julia as Arturo Duran

Lena Olin as Bobby Duran

Carmine Caridi as Captain Potts

Robert Redford as Jack Weil

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

Another Day of Life

2018

7.3

♡ 15

89%

independence movement

portugal

south africa

Raúl de la Fuente Director

Youssef Kerkour as Farrusco

Tomasz Zietek as Farrusco

John Hollingworth as Rysard Kapuscinski

Gracy Goldman as (voice)

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

Tamango

1958

French

6.5

♡ 3

80%

John Berry Director

Dorothy Dandridge as Aiché, Reiker's Mistress Eboué

Eboué as (as Yves Eboué)

Curd Jürgens as Captain John Reinker

Guy Mairesse as Werner

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.

Death of a Bureaucrat

1966

7.6

♡ 11

100%

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Director

Silvia Planas as Aunt

Manuel Estanillo as Bureaucrat

Salvador Wood as Nephew

Gaspar De Santelices as Nephew's boss

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.

Wasp Network

2019

5.9

♡ 31

41%

37%

based on a true story

Olivier Assayas Director

Ana de Armas as Ana Magarita Martinez

Wagner Moura as Juan Pablo Roque

Penélope Cruz as Olga Salanueva

Édgar Ramírez as Rene Gonzalez

Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

Our Man in Havana

1959

7.2

♡ 7

based on novel or book

british secret service

Carol Reed Director

Maureen O'Hara as Beatrice Severn

Ernie Kovacs as Capt. Segura

John Le Mesurier as Louis - Waiter

Aileen Lewis as Nightclub Patron

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

Memories of Underdevelopment

1968

7.6

♡ 8

96%

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Director

Yolanda Farr as

Rafael Sosa as

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea as Self

Sergio Corrieri as Sergio Carmona Mendoyo

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?

Give Me Future

2017

7.3

♡ 1

67%

Austin Peters Director

In the spring of 2016, global music sensation Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, Cuba—an unprecedented show that drew an audience of almost half a million. This concert documentary evolves into an exploration of youth culture in a country on the precipice of change.

The Good Shepherd

2006

6.7

♡ 62

56%

51%

central intelligence agency (cia)

berlin, germany

husband wife relationship

london, england

Thriller

Robert De Niro Director

Robert De Niro as Bill Sullivan

Matt Damon as Edward Wilson

James Faulkner as Lord Cooper

Angelina Jolie as Margaret 'Clover' Russell

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Cuba

1979

5.6

♡ 9

45%

Richard Lester Director

Earl Cameron as Colonel Rosell Leyva

Walter Gotell as Don Jose Pulido

Sean Connery as Major Robert Dapes

Roger Lloyd Pack as Nunez

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Before Night Falls

2000

7.1

♡ 36

74%

Julian Schnabel Director

Johnny Depp as Bon Bon / Lieutenant Victor

Diego Luna as Carlos

Vincent Laresca as Jose Abreu

Javier Bardem as Reinaldo Arenas

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

I Am Cuba

1964

8.2

♡ 20

100%

Mikhail Kalatozov Director

Salvador Wood as

Sergio Corrieri as Alberto

Celia Rodriguez as Gloria

Jean Bouise as Jim

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.

The Old Man and the Sea

1958

6.9

♡ 24

75%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Don Diamond as Cafe Proprietor

Harry Bellaver as Martin

Spencer Tracy as The Old Man / Narrator

Don Alvarado as Waiter

Santiago is an aging, down-on-his-luck, Cuban fisherman who, after catching nothing for nearly 3 months, hooks a huge Marlin and struggles to land it far out in the Gulf Stream.

Sergio and Sergei

2017

6.5

♡ 2

86%

Ernesto Daranas Director

A.J. Buckley as Detective Hall

Ailín de la Caridad Rodriguez as Mariana

Ron Perlman as Peter

Luis Manuel Álvarez as Tomás

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.

Castro's Secret Reef

2016

7.3

♡ 2

Cuba's enforced isolation has resulted in the unlikeliest of marine reserves: a huge, rambling archipelago known as Jardines de la Reina, or "Gardens of the Queen." Stretching around 140 miles along the southern coast of Cuba, it's one of the longest barrier reef systems in the world. Get an up-close look at Fidel Castro's diving playground, a forgotten ocean paradise unseen for half a century, and witness exotic species rarely seen elsewhere in the region. It's the lost jewel of the Caribbean, but how long can this pristine wilderness survive?

The Lost City

2005

6.5

♡ 5

25%

Andy Garcia Director

Steven Bauer as Captain Castel

Jsu Garcia as Ernesto 'Che' Guevarra

Andy Garcia as Fico Fellove

Enrique Murciano as Ricardo Fellove

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

Chico & Rita

2009