Best award winning movies with a social taboo from Cuba
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a social taboo from Cuba! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a social taboo 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
Rating
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
Cast
- Daniel Arrechaga, Analin de la Rua de la Torre
Rating
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5.6
3 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
Cast
- Alexis Valdés, Yoima Valdés
Rating
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6.6
4 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
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5 Habana Blues (2005)
When Spanish record producers express interest in Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito, the longtime friends are faced with the prospect of leaving their loved ones behind. After years of hoping and dreaming, they've finally earned the opportunity to bring their music to the rest of the world. But are the emotional trade-offs worth it in the end?
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- 2005-03-18 | Drama
Cast
- Alberto Yoel, Roberto San Martín
Rating
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6.6
6 Melaza (2012)
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their faith.
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- 2012-12-05 | Drama
Cast
- Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gómez
Rating
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5.1
7 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
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?
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- 1968-08-19 | Drama
Cast
- Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados
Rating
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7.4
8 The Last Match (2013)
Cuba is not a country for young gays. Teen rent boy Reinier falls in love with a mate in the slum soccer field in their neighbourhood in Havana. Although obsessed with moneymaking to hold up his baby, teen wife, and wife's grandma, gambler Reinier always fails to get the stroke of luck he looks for. At the same time he cannot help being infatuated by Yosvani. Handsome Yosvani will give up his older, wealthy girlfriend (whom he hooked up to pay for a lavish life in the big city), and the work he does for her father, a loan thug, so much in love he is with Reinier. But the boys would fight hard to keep this love in the reckless Havana streets.
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- 2013-05-04 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Milton García, Reinier Díaz
Rating
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7.2
9 Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
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.
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- 1966-07-24 | Comedy
Cast
- Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas
Rating
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7.2
10 79 Springs (1969)
This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.
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- 1969-12-31 | Documentary
Cast
- Hồ Chí Minh
Rating
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6.1