Cuba Movies

Jesús lives with his father on the shore of a large lake. José, his older brother, has returned home carrying with him a criminal past. This morning, Jesús accompanies him in search for a job that would help restore his reputation.

Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (Plácido) is accused of leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government. Preoccupied by the development of Afro-Hispanic artist and craftsmen of the mid 19th century, Plácido was executed after living a short and co...

Two journalists, a reporter and a cameraman, cover violent incidents during a riot in a prison for common criminals. Television broadcasting live allows the rioters to see themselves as main characters. Our journalists come to understand, after a series of con...

It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties precedi...

Celeste García, a 60-year-old former schoolteacher and current guide at the Havana Planetarium, is looking for a life change. When a group of aliens land in Cuba offering earthlings a chance to visit their planet, Celeste signs up for the journey hoping for a...

Each year, nearly 450,000 Cubans leave their country. They cross the sea to escape a worn-out political regime, shortages, and hurricanes. In Havana, some mourn those who depart, while those who remain look for other ways to escape.

Thaimí, a beautiful and talented fisherman's daughter, becomes a celebrated night club singer as she is torn by the love of two men who happen to be brothers.

This is not a regular day in Daniel's life. Ever since dawn there's something different about his wife. Unwillingly, Daniel begins a journey to unravel the truth about her wife, the reason why everything feels so out of place. Capgras is a journey of doubt, se...

Born in a lonely wasteland, three characters live together: a man, a lame girl and an old man. An invisible premonition haunts the place and the characters who live in it. The man and the girl decide to leave; one of them stays: the old one. The characters fle...

Documentary about Cuban education. El planeta de los niños is not a documentary and not a feature film. Sarmiento actually filmed a documentary subject with the mise-en-scène and the cutting of a feature film. Without further ado, she takes the viewer into a w...

A nocturnal portrait of Havana and its inhabitants through the songs they listen to and sing.

Striking images of the lives and deaths of captive animals loom in the background of everyday humanity.

After not being recognized by an actress with whom he worked twenty years ago, a projectionist films himself and introduces himself into a film to revive the past.

Fascinated tourists stroll through the GDR museum as if it were an amusement park, indifferent to the painful stories that occurred under the communist regime. Their casual attraction to vintage, their comfortable forgetfulness and their need for utopia make t...