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1. Stories of the Revolution (1960)
87 min | Drama
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Bertina Acevedo, Enrique Fong, Miriam Gómez, Francisco Lago
Votes: 79
2. The Twelve Chairs (1962)
94 min | Comedy
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides her jewels in one of... See full summary »
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez, Pilín Vallejo
Votes: 314
3. El joven rebelde (1961)
82 min | Drama
Director: Julio García Espinosa | Stars: Blas Mora, Wember Bros, José Yedra, Carlos Sessano
Votes: 16
4. Crónica cubana (1965)
111 min
Director: Ugo Ulive | Stars: Pedro Álvarez, Juan Canas, Adela Escartín, Violeta Jiménez
5. Preludio 11 (1964)
91 min | Drama
Codeword: Prelude. Daniela - a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US - believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is in progress. Under the command of a US officer.
Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Reimar J. Baur, Miguel Benavides, Roberto Blanco, Ibere Cavalcanti
Votes: 19
6. En días como estos (1964)
82 min | Drama
Director: Jorge Fraga | Stars: Mequi Herrera, Rebeca Morales, Rosendo Lamadriz, Marilys Rios
7. La decisión (1965)
86 min
Director: José Massip | Stars: Miguel Benavides, René de la Cruz, Adela Escartín, Daisy Granados
8. Giselle (1965)
Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet | Stars: Alicia Alonso, Fernando Alonso, Ana Marini, Azari Plisetski
9. Cerro Pelado (1966)
Not Rated | 34 min | Documentary, Short
Though lesser known than Leni Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA or Kon Ichikawa's TOKYO OLYMPIAD, Santiago Alvarez's tribute to Cuba's sporting triumphs is no less breathtaking. A ship of athletes ... See full summary »
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 31
10. The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967)
112 min | Comedy
The metamorphoses of Juan Quin Quin, in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan.
Director: Julio García Espinosa | Stars: Julito Martinez, Erdwin Fernández, Adelaida Raymat, Enrique Santisteban
Votes: 119
11. Lucia (1968)
160 min | Drama
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure
Votes: 1,183
12. Los días del agua (1971)
110 min | Drama
Based on actual events that occurred in 1936 in Pinar Del Río, a province in Cuba; it tells the story of Antoñica Izquierdo, a peasant who attributed healing powers through water.
Director: Manuel Octavio Gómez | Stars: Idalia Anreus, Raúl Pomares, Adolfo Llauradó, Mario Balmaseda
Votes: 30
13. Ustedes tienen la palabra (1974)
Drama
A reconstruction, in the style of Socialist Realism, of an actual case from 1969 in which 4 men were accused of sabotaging economic planning and bringing about 8 deaths and much material loss, by starting a forest fire.
Director: Manuel Octavio Gómez | Stars: Idalia Anreus, Mario Balmaseda, Miguel Benavides, Rogelio Blain
14. The Last Supper (1976)
120 min | Drama, History
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.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey, Luis Alberto García, José Antonio Rodríguez
Votes: 689
15. Un día de noviembre (1972)
110 min
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Eslinda Núñez, Gildo Torres, Raquel Revuelta, Alicia Bustamante
Votes: 11
16. Cantata de Chile (1976)
119 min | Drama, History
An epic, revolutionary retelling of the events leading up to an infamous massacre of striking miners in Chile in 1907.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Eric Heresmann, Alfredo Tornquist
Votes: 37
17. Mella (1977)
106 min
Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet | Stars: Ramón Brito, Sergio Corrieri, René de la Cruz, Ángel Espasande
18. The Teacher (1978)
113 min | Drama
In the early years of the Cuban revolution, a young Havana student volunteers to go to a poor rural region to teach peasants how to read and write; he's sent to the Ciénega de Zapata zone, ... See full summary »
Director: Octavio Cortázar | Stars: Patricio Wood, Salvador Wood, René de la Cruz, Luis Alberto Ramírez
Votes: 43
19. Retrato de Teresa (1979)
103 min | Drama
Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants ... See full summary »
Director: Pastor Vega | Stars: Idalia Anreus, Miguel Benavides, Samuel Claxton, Elsa Gay
Votes: 158
20. La viuda de Montiel (1979)
105 min | Drama
While a train takes a woman to her destination, accompanied by her only daughter, she remembers the events that marked the life of her dead son and that led her to such a tragic outcome.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Nelson Villagra, Katy Jurado, Eduardo Gil
Votes: 98
21. The Slave Hunter (1976)
90 min
The rise and fall of a famous bounty hunter during the slavery years of 19th-century Cuba.
Director: Sergio Giral | Stars: Reynaldo Miravalles, Adolfo Llauradó, Samuel Claxton, Omar Valdés
Votes: 15
22. Maluala (1979)
84 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows: traitors are in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish.
Director: Sergio Giral | Stars: Samuel Claxton, Miguel Navarro, Roberto Blanco, Miguel Gutiérrez
Votes: 39
23. Aquella larga noche... (1979)
110 min | Drama
Aspects of the life of the revolutionary combatants Lidia Doce and Clodomira Acosta, guerrilla supplies and messengers in the Sierra Maestra, until their capture, torture and death.
Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet | Stars: Raquel Revuelta, María Eugenia García, Norberto Bertrand, Armando Bianchi
Votes: 11
24. No hay sábado sin sol (1980)
Director: Manuel Herrera | Stars: Eslinda Núñez, Mario Balmaseda, René de la Cruz, Jorge Losada
25. Elpidio Valdés (1979)
Not Rated | 70 min | Animation
Elpidio Valdés (ICAIC, 1979). It tells the birth of Elpidio, the death of his father and the beginnings of the War of Independence; as he knows María Silvia and how he becomes a scourge for... See full summary »
Director: Juan Padrón
Votes: 72
26. Guardafronteras (1981)
129 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Director: Octavio Cortázar | Stars: Tito Junco, Patricio Wood, Javier González, Salvador Blanco
Votes: 22
27. Cecilia (1982)
127 min | Drama
Cecilia, a Cuban girl of mixed race in violent 19th-century Cuba, is raised by her mother and grandmother as a courtesan. Soon, pale-skinned Cecilia catches the eye of the estate owner's ... See full summary »
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Daisy Granados, Imanol Arias, Miguel Benavides, Raquel Revuelta
Votes: 155
28. Anna Pavlova (1983– )
155 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's ... See full summary »
Stars: Galina Belyaeva, Lina Buldakova, Sergey Shakurov, Vsevolod Larionov
Votes: 256
29. Hasta cierto punto (1983)
68 min | Drama
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Óscar Álvarez, Mirta Ibarra, Omar Valdés, Coralia Veloz
Votes: 137
30. La rosa de los vientos (1983)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy
Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th ... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Patxi Andión, José Antonio Rodríguez, Nelson Villagra, Asdrúbal Meléndez
Votes: 24
31. Elpidio Valdés contra dólar y cañón (1983)
80 min | Animation, Adventure
Elpidio Valdés is charged with a difficult, risky mission - to bring from Tampa, Florida, a shipment of arms for the freedom fighters of the Ejército Libertador. With Captain María Silva, ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Padrón | Stars: Frank González, María Eugenia García, Manuel Marín, Adolfo Llauradó
Votes: 56
32. Los refugiados de la cueva del muerto (1983)
Director: Santiago Álvarez | Stars: Orlando Casín, Javier González, Raúl Pomares, Alberto Pujol
33. Los pájaros tirándole a la escopeta (1984)
90 min | Comedy
A young couple find out that their parents (her father end his mother) are having a romance. All the problems begin here because the young couple can't accept this relationship.
Director: Rolando Díaz | Stars: Reynaldo Miravalles, Consuelo Vidal, Silvia Planas, Alberto Pujol
Votes: 39
34. Tiempo de morir (1985)
98 min | Drama
A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his "pueblo" (village). But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Alí Triana | Stars: Gustavo Angarita, Sebastián Ospina, Jorge Emilio Salazar, María Eugenia Dávila
Votes: 205
35. Jíbaro (1985)
Director: Daniel Díaz Torres | Stars: Orlando Casín, René de la Cruz, Adolfo Llauradó, Alejandro Lugo
Votes: 7
36. Amada (1983)
105 min | Drama
In 1914, during World Ward I, Amada, a bourgeois wife, falls in love with her cousin Marcial, a young idealist who is fighting against the Cuban regime in power.
Directors: Nelson Rodríguez, Humberto Solás | Stars: Eslinda Núñez, César Évora, Silvia Planas, Andrés Hernández
Votes: 37
37. Baragua (1985)
Director: José Massip | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Rogelio Blain, Sergio Corrieri, René de la Cruz
38. A Successful Man (1986)
116 min | Drama
Javier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from Cuban middle class, survives all kind of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: César Évora, Raquel Revuelta, Daisy Granados, Jorge Trinchet
Votes: 96
39. Clandestinos (1987)
98 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Before the military coup in Cuba, a group of people have a clandestine printing press, used to print subversive pamphlets against the government.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Luis Alberto García, Isabel Santos, René Losada, Amado Del Pino
Votes: 116
40. Una novia para David (1985)
103 min | Comedy, Romance
A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
Director: Orlando Rojas | Stars: Jorge Luis Álvarez, María Isabel Díaz Lago, Francisco Gattorno, Edith Massola
Votes: 70
41. Amargo mar (1987)
100 min | Drama
Explores the Pacific War, between Bolivia, Chile and Peru in the late 1800s.
Director: Antonio Eguino | Stars: Luis Aldana, Eddy Bravo, Germán Calderón, René Capriles
Votes: 59
42. El socio de Dios (1987)
95 min | Drama
Directors: Federico García Hurtado, Roger Rumrill | Stars: Enrique Almirante, René de la Cruz, Adolfo Llauradó, Eslinda Núñez
Votes: 7
43. Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff (1988)
90 min | Comedy
A superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.
Director: Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Daisy Granados, Thais Valdés, Raúl Pomares, Jorge Cao
Votes: 124
44. The Ghost of War (1988)
124 min | Musical, Drama
In this political thriller, Reynaldo, a young dancer from a resort area on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, deserts his career to join his nation's fight against the American-backed Contras. ... See full summary »
Director: Ramiro Lacayo-Deshon | Stars: Elmer Macfield, Alenka Díaz, Manuel Poveda, Pilar Aguirre
Votes: 14
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