Best award winning movies with a dramatic turn from Cuba
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a dramatic turn from Cuba! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a dramatic turn from Cuba, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Mambo Man (2020)
Desperate to support his family and crops, a Cuban farmer and music promoter gambles everything on a deal that appears too good to be true.
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- 2020-09-11 | Drama
Cast
- Héctor Noas, Yudexi de la Torre Mesa
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0.0
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2 One Night (2012)
In Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.
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- 2012-04-19 | Drama
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- Daniel Arrechaga, Analin de la Rua de la Torre
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5.6
3 Nada+ (2001)
Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.
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- 2001-11-30 | Drama / Romance
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- Thais Valdés, Nacho Lugo
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6.1
4 The Waiting List (2000)
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
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- 2000-06-02 | Drama / Comedy
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- Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría
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6.3
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5 A King in Havana (2005)
Mr. Arturo, an old rich Spanishman who arrives to Havana to marry Yoli, dies suddenly in bed. Yoli's family, afraid of losing all the money, convinces her ex-boyfriend Papito to go to Spain and get the money. Papito will have to be clever enough to deceive everybody and succeed in Spain
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- 2005-05-27 | Comedy
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- Alexis Valdés, Yoima Valdés
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6.6
6 I Am Cuba (1964)
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.
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- 1964-10-26 | Drama
Cast
- Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood
Rating
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7.8
7 Horn of Plenty (2008)
An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.
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- 2008-10-24 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jorge Perugorría, Enrique Molina
Rating
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5.3
8 Habanastation (2011)
Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids.
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- 2011-08-25 | Fantasy / Family
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- Ernesto Escalona, Andy Fornanis
Rating
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7.7
9 The Grandmothers of the Revolution (2006)
Slovenian director Petra Seliskar investigates the role of ideology in her personal family history by means of interviews with her paternal grandfather, her Macedonian boyfriend Brand's maternal grandmother and his Cuban grandmother on his father's side. Illustrated by archive footage and home movies, her voice-over describes her family's personal story, Yugoslavia under Tito, and the recent war, accompanied by some particularly shocking footage. The nature shots and the alternation of classical, popular and revolutionary music occasionally lend the stories a light-hearted tone.
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- 2006-11-24 | Documentary / Family
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0.0
10 Vertical Love (1997)
The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
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- 1997-12-16 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jorge Perugorría, Silvia Águila
Rating
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7.2