Best award winning movies with smart writing from Cuba

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with smart writing from Cuba! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with smart writing from Cuba, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #94 for
    wall to wall
  2. Ranked #189 for
    unrequited love
  3. Ranked #266 for
    neo-realism

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2 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

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #6 for
    vertiginous
  2. Ranked #18 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #26 for
    didactic

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3 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

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1596 for
    heartfelt performance
  2. Ranked #3080 for
    Queer Cinema
  3. Ranked #3602 for
    canonical

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4 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

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #643 for
    great soundtrack
  2. Ranked #849 for
    diabolical
  3. Ranked #1251 for
    didactic

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5 Habana (2014)

Havana is occupied by foreign forces and on the edge of civil war. Lazaro, a kid from the slums, walks us through his streets and reveals the chaos that has taken over the capital.

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2014-01-01 | Science Fiction / War

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rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2701 for
    hitting false notes
  2. Ranked #5368 for
    expert shooting
  3. Ranked #6284 for
    sumptuous photography

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6 Winds of Havana (2016)

The killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended.

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2016-09-30 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Juana Acosta, Jorge Perugorría

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3131 for
    inside look into organized crime
  2. Ranked #3401 for
    giving willies
  3. Ranked #5743 for
    pill-popping

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7 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

Cast

Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3479 for
    deformed
  2. Ranked #5169 for
    allusive
  3. Ranked #5393 for
    overweight character

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8 Ants in the Mouth (2005)

After languishing in a Barcelona prison for nearly a decade, a busted bank robber attempts to find the girl who made off with the cash in this suspenseful tale of revenge and betrayal starring Adriana Gil and Eduard Fernández. Ex-con Martin Losada is out of prison and on the hunt. When he and his band of anti-Franco bank robbers were busted after a botched heist ten years ago, the only member of their team never caught by police was his long-gone ex-girlfriend Julia. Now, on the eve of the 1958 revolution, the recently released ex-con sets his sights on Havana in a determined bid to find Julia, and stake his claim on his rightful share of the take.

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2005-04-29 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Eduard Fernández, Ariadna Gil

Rating

rating icon 5.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #384 for
    murky
  2. Ranked #1568 for
    hardboiled style
  3. Ranked #2397 for
    chilling

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9 The Last Supper (1976)

A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

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1976-03-13 | Drama

Cast

Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey

Rating

rating icon 7.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #148 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #364 for
    mythology extending
  3. Ranked #1449 for
    hagiography

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10 Day of the Flowers (2013)

Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.

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2013-11-29 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3547 for
    ramshackle house
  2. Ranked #4835 for
    draining
  3. Ranked #6501 for
    self-improvement

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