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1. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 185,337 | Gross: $78.76M
2. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,691
3. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
G | 105 min | Documentary, Music
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Octavio Calderon
Votes: 20,567 | Gross: $7.00M
4. McHale's Navy (1997)
PG | 108 min | Action, Comedy
A retired Navy officer returns to active duty, along with a group of misfit sailors, to battle his former nemesis.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Tom Arnold, Dean Stockwell, Ernest Borgnine, Debra Messing
Votes: 7,102 | Gross: $4.53M
5. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Not Rated | 136 min | Documentary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,535 | Gross: $0.07M
6. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Votes: 4,794 | Gross: $0.24M
7. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés
Votes: 4,782 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
113 min | Documentary
Life in Cuba for three struggling families over the course of 45 years, from the cautious optimism of the early 1970s to the harrowing 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union and the 2016 death of Fidel Castro.
Director: Jon Alpert
Votes: 5,536
9. Company Man (2000)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy
A high-school teacher in the 1960s becomes an international spy and becomes involved in a plot to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Directors: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath | Stars: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Guilfoyle, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 2,176 | Gross: $0.15M
10. Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)
Not Rated | 68 min | Adventure
Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John McKay, Jackie Jackler
Votes: 326
11. ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff? (2018 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The violent political suppression of the roots reggae movement in Jamaica told through an investigation into Jamaican politics and the CIA's involvement in the mysterious shooting of Bob Marley.
Director: Kief Davidson | Stars: Bob Marley, Arnold Bertram, Cindy Breakspeare, Nancy Burke
Votes: 1,739
12. Fidel (2002 TV Movie)
206 min | Biography, Drama
Fidel Castro rises to power in Cuba.
Director: David Attwood | Stars: Víctor Huggo Martin, Gael García Bernal, Patricia Velasquez, Cecilia Suárez
Votes: 1,274
13. Comandante (2003)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
Documentary on the director's meeting with Castro.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Fidel Castro, Oliver Stone, Juanita Vera, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Votes: 3,899
14. La faute à Fidel! (2006)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Director: Julie Gavras | Stars: Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Votes: 5,209 | Gross: $0.17M
15. Salut les Cubains (1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Juan Almeida, Alejo Carpentier, Fidel Castro
Votes: 1,900
16. Bitter Sugar (1996)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: René Lavan, Mayte Vilán, Miguel Gutiérrez, Larry Villanueva
Votes: 646 | Gross: $0.39M
17. Cuba Crossing (1980)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Woody Strode, Albert Salmi
Votes: 235
18. Improper Conduct (1984)
112 min | Documentary
An examination of Cuba's "moral purges" that began in 1964 with UMAP camps for those suspected of or found guilty of "improper conduct." Key moments brought outside attention to these ... See full summary »
Directors: Néstor Almendros, Orlando Jiménez Leal | Stars: Lorenzo Monreal, Jorge Lago, Julio Medina, César Bermudez
Votes: 129
19. M.A.D. World (2015– )
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History
After World War II, two ideologies fights for world domination, communism and capitalism. As the tension between USSR and USA elevates, it is evident that if another nuclear war breaks out, it is Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.).
Votes: 16
20. Salvador Allende (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Patricio Guzmán, Jacques Bidou, Alejandro Gonzáles
Votes: 769
21. Memorias del desarrollo (2010)
113 min | Drama
An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Coyula | Stars: Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro, Trent Harris, Ning Li
Votes: 78
22. Ernesto (2017)
124 min | Biography
The first film in forty years to be co-produced by Cuba and Japan, it recounts the story of Freddy Maymura Hurtado who was a Bolivian man of Japanese descent. He joined the freedom fighters... See full summary »
Director: Junji Sakamoto | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Roberto Espinosa, Giselle Lominchar
Votes: 71
23. The Silly Age (2006)
90 min | Drama
A drama about grandmother-grandson relationships.
Director: Pavel Giroud | Stars: Mercedes Sampietro, Iván Carreira, Susana Tejera, José Ángel Egido
Votes: 222
24. Pier 5, Havana (1959)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A Yank comes to Havana in search of an old friend who disappeared during the Cuban Revolution, and discovers a group of Batista sympathizers plotting to overturn Castro.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Allison Hayes, Eduardo Noriega, Michael Granger
Votes: 298
25. I Love Miami (2006)
R | 95 min | Drama
A story involving the famous Fidel Castro, who ironically arrives at Miami, like so many of his fellow Cubans, and at the same time living through a Cuban- American experience, creates the ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro González Padilla | Stars: Juan Luis Galiardo, Ofelia Medina, Jaime Camil, Adrian Alonso
Votes: 175
26. Ernesto Che Guevara (1995)
105 min | Documentary
Documentary about the life of revolutionary Cuban leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Director: Roberto Massari | Stars: Fidel Castro, Simone de Beauvoir, Alberto Granado, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Votes: 31
27. Cuba libre (2005)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
An outrageous comedy about a group of radical anarchist squatters who inadvertently overtake the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the very same time that Fidel Castro announces Cuba's first democratic elections.
Director: Raimundo García | Stars: Mario Arias, Sara Deray, Luciano Federico, Ismael Fritschi
Votes: 80
28. TimeGhost the Cuban Missile Crisis (2017– )
Documentary, History, War
In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world one launch code away from full on nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. This documentary series covers that crisis one day at a time.
Star: Indy Neidell
Votes: 17
29. Lost in the Shadows (2006)
56 min | Documentary
In 1959, filmmaker Michael Colin's father went to Havana to make a movie about Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. While there, he met a Cuban dancer named Olga, whom he married after ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Colin
30. Sons of Cuba (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
The Havana Boxing Academy is a Cuban boarding school that takes 9-year-old boys, and turns them into the best boxers in the world.
Director: Andrew Lang | Stars: Yosvani Bonachea, Cristian Martinez, Santos Urguelles
Votes: 132
31. Waiting for Fidel (1974)
58 min | Documentary
Documentary about a film crew's failed attempt at interviewing Fidel Castro while in Cuba.
Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Fidel Castro, Erich Honecker, Bernabe Ordez, Michael Rubbo
Votes: 133
32. Hangin' with Fidel (2012– )
Comedy
An aspiring screenwriter and an up-and-coming producer share a hip Hollywood apartment with a goofy Cuban named Fidel Castro. This is a sitcom in the classic style: a catchy theme song, ... See full summary »
Stars: Gabriel Loyer, Jordan Ignacio, Sean Mullaney, Steve Briscoe
Votes: 7
33. Dear Mister Obama
Drama | Announced
After his young son dies trying to reach the U.S., Cuban mechanic Pablo Cartero decides to cross the Straits of Florida in a 1949 Mercury car converted to a boat, to personally persuade President Obama to stop the embargo on Cuba.
Director: Alfonso Quijada
34. Habana - Arte nuevo de hacer ruinas (2006)
86 min | Documentary
The final moments of Havana's buildings seen through the eyes of their inhabitants: before they are renovated - or collapsed altogether.
Director: Florian Borchmeyer
Votes: 67
35. Fidelity (2009)
60 min | Documentary
A documentary about Cuba without Castro. People speak about the future, hopes and fears, while Castro undergoes emergency surgery. A portrait of a split society, balanced between Revolution and capitalist penetration.
36. Re-Evolution: The Cuban Dream (2019– )
27 min | Documentary
Diving into the streets of Havana, we meet change makers in Cuba today. Following their journeys to thrive and survive in a rapidly shifting society, they provide unique perspectives on how... See full summary »
Stars: Cray Novick, Barack Obama, Jezabel Montero, Tim Phillips
Votes: 7
37. Kuuban valloittajat (2005)
88 min | Documentary
Nearly blind Maximiliano, 62, has been given an important task. He has been asked to fix Che Guevara's old car in Havana. Maximiliano's passion are old American cars, and the car he owns ... See full summary »
Director: Arto Halonen | Stars: Josefina Aldanas, Maximiliano Artiguet, Jorge Joerge, Eduardo Mesejo Maestro
Votes: 28
38. Beverley Manley Uncensored: An Intimate Portrait of a Jamaican Icon (2022)
Documentary
Prime Ministers wife Beverley Manley recounts her troubled relationship with mother, her Interclass marriage with Prime Minister Micheal Manley, 70s Socialism, Mass migration, CIA and IMF actions and falling in love with another man.
Stars: Beverly Anderson Manley, Anthony Bogues, Nigel Fleary, Rachel Manley
39. Fidelidad (2004)
48 min | Documentary
Cuba, 2003. The contradictory emotions of Cuba, which give a face and a feeling for a political circumstance, are revealed as a night in Malecón Havanero goes by. Fidelity illustrates the ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Zapata | Stars: Ricardo Becerra, Juan Zapata
40. Nadie (I) (2017)
70 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The History of the Cuban Revolution through the personal experiences of writer Rafael Alcides, a once well known poet who became Nobody.
Director: Miguel Coyula | Stars: Rafael Alcides Pérez, Rafael Alcides, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro
Votes: 14
41. À la Chaleur des Années Froides (2022)
82 min | Documentary
This film shows the post-revolutionary dynamics which, for ten years, will make cinema in Cuba an extraordinary cultural event. A film in memory of these pioneers.
Directors: Darius Kaufmann, Eytan Jan | Stars: Mirta Ibarra, Enrique Pineda Barnet, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Manet
42. Cuba, el valor de una utopía (2006)
120 min | Documentary
Director: Yanara Guayasamín | Star: Fidel Castro
Votes: 21
43. Cuba 2021 (2020)
Short, Action, Comedy
In Cuba 2021, Arnold Palmer, a man of the future, travels back in time to Cuba in the year 2021 to avenge his father's death at the hands of Fidel Castro. Will he achieve his objective? Time will tell.
Director: Christian Lora | Stars: Zachary Vazquez, Gabriela Borges, Ashley Renae Brown, Ariel Texido
44. World War V: The Fall of Fidel
Short, Action | Announced
In the last installment, SAS Veterans Dave Sears and Rodriguez Bumba were sent to Vietnam to infiltrate Che Guevara's stronghold and take down his revolutionary regime. World War V: The ... See full summary »
Directors: Izaak Leach, Peter Robinson | Stars: Peter Robinson, Izaak Leach, Ben Stark, Damon Latimer
45. Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)
109 min | Documentary
A documentary about Fidel Castro's visit to the USSR from April 28 to June 3, 1963 and how the Cuban leader traveled throughout the Soviet Union for 40 days, from Severodvinsk to Khiva in Uzbekistan.
Director: Roman Karmen | Stars: Yuri Andropov, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Andrei Gromyko
46. El diálogo de América (1972)
45 min | Documentary
In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural dependency and economics.
Director: Álvaro J. Covacevich | Stars: Salvador Allende, Fidel Castro
Votes: 7
48. Der Revolver des Korporals (1967)
92 min | Drama
Director: Rolf Losansky | Stars: Peter Donat, Heinz Tischer, Günter Naumann, Ruth Kommerell
50. Mi hijo el Che - Un retrato de familia de don Ernesto Guevara (1985)
70 min | Documentary
Director: Fernando Birri
Votes: 15