Cuba (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Soy Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, History, War
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: 8,252
2. Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This Oscar nominated film is the story of two men who are opposites, one gay, the other straight, one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist, one suspicious, the other accepting, and how they come to love each other.
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno
Votes: 5,342 | Gross: $2.08M
3. Un traductor (2018)
TV-MA | 107 min | Drama
A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
Directors: Rodrigo Barriuso, Sebastián Barriuso | Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Álvarez, Yoandra Suárez, Nikita Semenov
Votes: 633 | Gross: $0.01M
4. 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: 3,743 | Gross: $0.03M
5. Molina's Ferozz (2010)
70 min | Fantasy, Horror
A young, attractive widow is protected from her vicious mother-in-law, by a male relative who practices Satanism, and lusts after the old woman's sexy adolescent granddaughter.
Director: Jorge Molina | Stars: Dayana Legrá, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silvia Machado, Francisco García
Votes: 140
6. A Tuba to Cuba (2018)
TV-PG | 82 min | Documentary, History, Music
A TUBA TO CUBA follows New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they retrace their musical roots from the storied city of jazz to the shores of Cuba and in turn discover a connection that runs much deeper than could have been imagined.
Directors: T.G. Herrington, Danny Clinch | Stars: Ben Jaffe, Walter Harris, Charlie Gabriel, Ronell Johnson
Votes: 149 | Gross: $0.12M
7. 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, Raquel Revuelta, Miguel Benavides
Votes: 121
8. ¡Vampiros en La Habana! (1985)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror
A vampire family from Cuba is preparing for a showdown between the USA vampires and the Eastern European vampires. But with the aid of a scientist, they need a type of vaccination where they can live in daylight.
Director: Juan Padrón | Stars: Frank González, Manuel Marín, Irela Bravo, Carlos Gonzalez
Votes: 1,241
9. Conducta (2014)
108 min | Drama
Aging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
Director: Ernesto Daranas | Stars: Alina Rodríguez, Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gómez, Miriel Cejas
Votes: 1,336
10. Madrigal (2007)
112 min | Sci-Fi
"Not everything is what it seems". This is the motto of Fernando Pérez's Madrigal, an esoteric fable built, in the first part, around a handsome actor's love story with an overweight and ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Carlos Enrique Almirante, Liety Chaviano, Ana de Armas, Luis Alberto García
Votes: 112
11. Guantanamera (1995)
TV-14 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering ... See full summary »
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Carlos Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Jorge Perugorría, Raúl Eguren
Votes: 1,440 | Gross: $0.75M
12. Sarima a.k.a. Molina's Borealis 2 (2014)
22 min | Short, Fantasy
East of the largest island of the Antilles, Cuba, in the city of Gibara Raúl, an actor who has been invited to the film festival sees a beautiful young woman who comes out of the sea with a... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Molina | Stars: Raúl Capote, Leticia León, René de la Cruz Jr., María Gowland
Votes: 12
13. Sergio and Sergei (2017)
93 min | Drama
A Russian cosmonaut is stranded on The Mir Space Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Director: Ernesto Daranas | Stars: Tomás Cao, Héctor Noas, Ron Perlman, Yuliet Cruz
Votes: 381
14. La muerte de un burócrata (1966)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Gaspar De Santelices
Votes: 1,128
15. 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: 800
16. Agosto (2019)
85 min | Drama, History
Cuba, summer 1994. In the midst of Periodo Especial, one of the greatest crises in the country's history, thousands of Cuban rafters try to reach the United States illegally, never sure if ... See full summary »
Director: Armando Capó | Stars: Damián González Guerrero, Alejandro Guerrero Machado, Glenda Delgado Dominguez, Luis Ernesto Barcenas
Votes: 67
17. 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: 562
18. La edad de la peseta (2006)
90 min | Drama
A drama about grandmother-grandson relationships.
Director: Pavel Giroud | Stars: Mercedes Sampietro, Iván Carreira, Susana Tejera, José Ángel Egido
Votes: 191
19. The Princess and the Magic Mirror (2014)
PG | 78 min | Animation, Adventure
In a magical world, small but brave Tom Little embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to release the kingdom from a spell and win the hand of a beautiful princess. But who is his true love: the king's daughter or the courageous thief?
Director: Ernesto Padrón | Stars: Carlos Blanco, Monti Castiñeiras, María Castro, Luis Iglesia
Votes: 106
20. Armageddon 2 (2017)
5 min | Short
The internet in Cuba is very slow. Movies, television, and information are exchanged through a black market system of media distribution via external hard drives known as "el paquete semanal."
Director: Corey Hughes | Stars: Michel Brintori, José Antoine Cernuda
Votes: 15
21. Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017)
PG | 110 min | Documentary
Revisit with the remaining original members of the Buena Vista Social Club and explore their contribution to the unknown history of Cuba.
Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Barbarito Torres
Votes: 406 | Gross: $0.12M
22. Insumisa (2019)
94 min | Drama
1810. Enrique Faber, a Swiss surgeon, lands in Cuba in search for his son. After a few weeks of investigation, he is told that his son was burnt alive in the attack on a plantation led by a... See full summary »
Directors: Laura Cazador, Fernando Pérez | Stars: Antonio Buíl, Giselle González, Mario Guerra, Héctor Noas
Votes: 87
23. Alfa (2016)
18 min | Short, Drama
Director: Javier Ferreiro | Stars: Karel Fernández, Milton García, Fran López, Alain Rivalta
Votes: 26
24. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Taking place during the Chilean Coup d'état in 1973, this film opens with the attempted military coup of June 1973, which is put down by troops loyal to the government. The left is divided ... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán
Votes: 965
25. The Companion (2015)
TV-MA | 104 min | Drama
A disgraced boxer gradually forms an unlikely friendship with an HIV positive patient he is tasked with monitoring at a military-run sanitarium in 1980s Cuba.
Director: Pavel Giroud | Stars: Camila Arteche, Armando Miguel Gómez, Broselianda Hernández, Yotuel Romero
Votes: 258
26. Havana Motor Club (2015)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama, Sport
Change is racing down the streets of Havana, where Cuba's top underground drag racers struggle to prepare their classic hot rods for the first official car race since the Revolution.
Director: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt | Stars: Carlos Alvarez, Milton Díaz Canter, Hendy Cobas, Ernesto Dobarganes
Votes: 88
27. Corazón Azul (2021)
100 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | Completed
In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man and thus save utopia. The experiment fails as these beings are highly intelligent but also cruel and ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Coyula | Stars: Lynn Cruz, Carlos Javier Martinez, Héctor Noas, Mariana Alom
28. Omega 3 (2014)
74 min | Sci-Fi
Nick es un soldado del ejército Veg, escogido por su oficial superior, junto a otros dos compañeros suyos, para ir a explorar unas sospechosas instalaciones en el frente de los Macs, su ... See full synopsis »
Director: Eduardo del Llano | Stars: Yerandy Basart, Omar Franco, Carlos Gonzalvo, Carlos Massola
Votes: 16
29. Suite Habana (2003)
80 min | Documentary
Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Francisquito Cardet, Francisco Cardet, Norma Pérez, Waldo Morales
Votes: 587
30. Las doce sillas (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 all of her treasures... See full summary »
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Enrique Santisteban, Reynaldo Miravalles, René Sánchez, Pilín Vallejo
Votes: 250
31. Últimos días en La Habana (2016)
R | 93 min | Drama
A Cuban man dying of AIDS in Havana.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Jorge Martínez, Gabriela Ramos, Yailene Sierra, Patricio Wood
Votes: 183
32. Santa & Andrés (2016)
105 min | Drama
The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
Director: Carlos Lechuga | Stars: Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez, Cesar Domínguez, Luna Tinoco
Votes: 163
33. Cabeza Madre (2017)
88 min | Comedy
John, looking for the mother in Cuba he hasn't seen in thirty years, is surprised to discover just her corpse minus her head, and further to find that the rest of his family there, who are ... See full summary »
Director: Edouard Salier | Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Daniel Amat, Michel Pentón, Ana Gloria Buduén
Votes: 17
34. Affair in Havana (1957)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Film-Noir
Songwriter falls in love with a crippled man's wife.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: John Cassavetes, Raymond Burr, Sara Shane, Lilia Lazo
Votes: 158
35. Historias de la revolución (1960)
87 min | Drama
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Bertina Acevedo, Enrique Fong, Miriam Gómez, Francisco Lago
Votes: 51
36. Boleto al paraíso (2010)
88 min | Drama
Eunice is a teenage girl who is running away from her father's sexual harassment. Alejandro is a young rocker who breaks into a drugstore and escapes to Havana with a couple of friends. ... See full summary »
Director: Gerardo Chijona | Stars: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Laura De la Uz
Votes: 73
37. Boccaccerías Habaneras (2014)
100 min | Comedy
Three independent stories linked to a writer's room with imaginative crisis where the people go to tell their stories hoping to someday become famous as a novel characters. A film full of sensuality, irreverence, and hidden passions.
Director: Arturo Sotto Díaz | Stars: Daniel Amat, Ulises Aquino, Yordanka Ariosa, Luis Angel Batista
Votes: 15
38. Molina's Borealis (2013)
15 min | Short, Fantasy
She is a young beautiful girl who lives life to the full. He is a man in his forties. They feel an unhealthy attraction for each other.
Director: Jorge Molina | Stars: Leticia León, Roberto Perdomo
Votes: 8
39. Azúcar amarga (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: 613 | Gross: $0.39M
40. Sandino (1991)
135 min | Biography, Drama
The US tried to occupy Nicaragua in 1927. General Cesar Augusto Sandino and his guerrillas begin armed resistance.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Joaquim de Almeida, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina
Votes: 93
41. El Super (1979)
90 min | Drama, Comedy
Slice of life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for ten years ... See full summary »
Directors: Leon Ichaso, Orlando Jiménez Leal | Stars: Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato, Zully Montero, Reynaldo Medina, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 124
42. Capablanca (1987)
96 min | Drama
Director: Manuel Herrera | Stars: César Évora, Galina Belyaeva, Eslinda Núñez, Adolfo Llauradó
Votes: 45
43. De cierta manera (1977)
78 min | Drama
Film about Miraflores, a housing development built in 1962.
Director: Sara Gómez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Votes: 180
44. Catch Me If You Can (1959)
Drama
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Dina Merrill, Greta Thyssen, Cesare Danova
Votes: 15
45. Guaguasi (1983)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A story about a simple man from the mountains, Guaguasi, who falls in love with a beautiful chorus girl, Marina, during the Cuban Revolution. Guaguasi joins the rebels and arrives in Havana... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Ulla | Stars: Orestes Matacena, Marilyn Pupo, Raimundo Hidalgo-Gato, Marco Santiago
Votes: 53
46. It Happened in Havana (1938)
113 min | Comedy
A country girl working in the tobacco fields, is seduced by a city man and elopes with him to Havana. In the big city, she discovers that the man is a womanizer that has been playing with ... See full summary »
Director: Ramón Peón | Stars: Luana Alcañiz, Alicia Rico, Juan Torena, Rita Montaner
Votes: 11
47. Jeronimo (I) (2019)
93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Juhn
Votes: 26
48. La piscina (2012)
Not Rated | 65 min | Drama
During summer in La Habana, four adolescents with physical problems, while in vacation from school, spend a day in a swimming pool with their apathetic instructor.
Director: Carlos Quintela | Stars: Raúl Capote, Mónica Molinet, Carlos Javier Martinez, Felipe García
Votes: 43
49. El techo (2016)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama
Three young Cubans crowded into a decaying neighborhood of Havana, imagine prosperous futures for themselves, as they struggle to meet the demands of everyday life.
Director: Patricia Ramos | Stars: Enmanuel Galbán, Andrea Doimeadiós, Jonathan Navarro Elóseguis, Noslen Sánchez
Votes: 52
50. Los sobrevivientes (1979)
130 min | Drama
An aristocratic family decides to isolate themselves from the changes brought by the revolution and begin living History in reverse. A surreal voyage from Socialism to cannibalism.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Enrique Santisteban, Juanita Caldevilla, Germán Pinelli, Ana Viña
Votes: 106