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Topaz(1969)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 153 votes)

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 290 votes)

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.

The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 562 votes)

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

Che: Part One(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 323 votes)

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.

Before Night Falls(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 117 votes)

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)

2h 15min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 79 votes)

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

Havana(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 62 votes)

An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo. Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution.

¡Cuba Sí!(1961)

4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A chronicle of the evolution of the Cuban Revolution, ending with the Bay of Pigs incident and including two interviews with Fidel Castro.

Directed by Chris Marker

Cuba(1979)

2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

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.

Viva Cuba(2005)

3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),.

The Survivors(1979)

2h 10min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery.".

Comandante(2003)

1h 39min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Documentary on the director's meeting with Castro.

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Salut les Cubains(1963)

30min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their post-revolution culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.

Fidel(2002)

3h 25min | Drama, Documentary
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.

Fidel: The Untold Story(2001)

1h 31min | Documentary, History
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

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 Nelson Mandela, meeting kid Elián Gonzalez, and celebrating his birthday with the Buena Vista Social Club group.

Directed by Estela Bravo - With Fidel Castro

Everybody Leaves(2015)

1h 47min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

In Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.

Directed by Sergio Cabrera

Fidel(2016)

5min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.

Plantadas(2023)

Alina, Luisa and América are three women who after fighting to restore and stabilize democracy to their country realize they’ve been betrayed by the leader of the revolution. The three women begin to confront and challenge the new system in their own ways and for different reasons they find themselves jailed.

El Crazy Che(2015)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

'Bill Gaede: El Crazy Che' is a documentary about the most amazing case of industrial espionage: the incredible story of an argentine engineer born in Lanús, programmer, and cold war spy who worked at AMD and Intel. While at AMD, he provided the Cuban Government with technical information from the semiconductor industry which the Cubans passed on to the Soviet bloc, primarily to the Soviet Union and East Germany.

Directed by Pablo Chehebar, Nicolás Iacouzzi

Santiago(1956)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Adventure, Action
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.

Stories of the Revolution(1960)

1h 21min | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.

Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - With Bertina Acevedo, Reynaldo Miravalles

Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba(2011)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 cuban children were sent alone by their parents to the USA. This clandestine operation -with the participation of the CIA and the Catholic Church- became known as "Operation Peter Pan". Many of the parents had expected to follow their children, who had been granted visa waivers by the US government, but the Missile Crisis terminated the flights between the two countries and the children found themselves stranded in the USA. In 2009, for the first time a group of the Peter Pan children, now adults visited Cuba to give "closure and make peace with the land where they were born".

Maestras Voluntarias(2022)

Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille were among the first young teachers who started pilot programs around the island of Cuba in 1960, laying foundation for the massive National Literacy Campaign that would take place the following year.

Clandestinos(1987)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units.

Directed by Fernando Pérez

Guaguasi(1983)

1h 47min | War, Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana at the end of Batista's dictatorship, and, in the midst of political turmoil, is swept off his feet by the mesmerising Marina. The story celebrates the vitality and lunacy of the Revolution period with surrealism, humor and sensuality and is a compassionate metaphor about the human condition.

Directed by Jorge Ulla - With Orestes Matacena, Marilyn Pupo, Rolando Barral

Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara(2001)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

The two young Swedish journalist's Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh have worked one year with Sacrificio, a film about the events surrounding the death of Che Guevara. They have traveled the world around and met among others the man who shot Che Guevara and the former CIA agent who walks around with Che's last tobacco in his pistol butt. In their attempts to find out what really happened they discover that the man who is accused of having betrayed Che Guevara as a matter of fact lives in Malmö, in the south of Sweden.

Directed by Erik Gandini

Yankee Comandante(2023)

Two people rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio.

Our House in Cuba(2015)

1h 11min | Documentary

There was a time in Argentina, not so long ago, when the army wasn't only one, official, but many and made up by civilians. In those times of courageous youths determined to fight to the death for that cause upheld around Peronism as wll as some left-wing postulates, revolutionary Cubas was a beacon of hope in the world scheme -a Montonero nation. "A House in Cuba" seeks to recover the curious adventure of a couple of Montonero parents and their small children, who were lovingly sent into exile in order for their parents to take up arms.

Cuba '58(1962)

1h 18min | Drama

Three stories reconstructing the start of the triumphant Cuban revolution which deposed Batista.

The Man from Maisinicu(1973)

2h 4min | Thriller, Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and re-establish contact with the US, CIA. The murder of a man led to a reprisal to wipe out the bandits.

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