With Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
M/6 | 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, Eliades Ochoa
Votes: 14,980 | Gross: $7.00M
2. Soy Cuba (1964)
108 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: 6,951 | Gross: $0.16M
3. Morango E Chocolate (1993)
M/16 | 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: 4,808 | Gross: $2.08M
4. Memórias do subdesenvolvimento (1968)
97 min | Drama
A Cuban man cycles through his repressed opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family retreats to Miami.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés
Votes: 2,965 | Gross: $0.03M
5. 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: Camila Arteche, A.J. Buckley, Ana Gloria Buduén, Tomás Cao
Votes: 174
6. Una rosa de Francia (2006)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Simon transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. He is discovered by the coastguard and Andrés, a young sailor, saves his life. When he falls for a young protegée of Simon conflict erupts.
Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Álex González, Ana de Armas, Broselianda Hernández
Votes: 134
7. Yuli (2018)
109 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Laura De la Uz
Votes: 40
8. Guantanamera (1995)
M/12 | 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: 1,320 | Gross: $0.75M
9. Afinidades (2010)
87 min | Drama
Faced with emptiness and a lack of answers for many problems of the contemporary world, sometimes it seems like the only escape is to take refuge in the instincts - instincts that drive us ... See full summary »
Directors: Vladimir Cruz, Jorge Perugorría | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Cuca Escribano, Vladimir Cruz, Gabriela Griffith
Votes: 29
10. Oedipo alcalde (1996)
100 min | Drama, War
Director: Jorge Alí Triana | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Ángela Molina, Francisco Rabal, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Votes: 265
11. O Meu Século XX (1989)
M/12 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate ... See full summary »
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker, Péter Andorai
Votes: 967 | Gross: $0.68M
12. Vientos de la Habana (2016)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Félix Viscarret | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Juana Acosta, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Vladimir Cruz
Votes: 455
13. 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: 1,120
14. Habana Blues (2005)
M/12 | 115 min | Drama, Music
Two cuban friends play in a blues band in La Habana. When a spanish music producer offers them a contract to record an album and to build a career in Europe, they will have to decide ... See full summary »
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: Alberto Yoel, Roberto San Martín, Yailene Sierra, Mayra Rodríguez
Votes: 2,311
15. Lista de espera (2000)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Vladimir Cruz, Tahimi Alvariño, Jorge Perugorría, Noel García
Votes: 1,128
16. Lucía (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 1930's, and the 1960's.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure
Votes: 610
17. ¡Vampiros en La Habana! (1985)
69 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 González
Votes: 1,082
18. En la puta vida (2001)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa ... See full summary »
Director: Beatriz Flores Silva | Stars: Mariana Santangelo Goldman, Silvestre, Josep Linuesa, Andrea Fantoni
Votes: 469
19. 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: 100
20. Cecilia (1982)
127 min | Drama
A story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the ... See full summary »
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Daisy Granados, Imanol Arias, Raquel Revuelta, Miguel Benavides
Votes: 103
21. A Última Ceia (1976)
M/16 | 120 min | Drama
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: 475
22. La muerte de un burócrata (1966)
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, Omar Alfonso
Votes: 880
23. 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: 133
24. El Benny (2006)
132 min | Drama, Musical
Based on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Luis Sánchez | Stars: Rakel Adriana, Ulyk Anello, Renny Arozarena, Laura De la Uz
Votes: 57
25. Habanastation (2011)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy
Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that "reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids", according to the film's official synopsis.
Director: Ian Padrón | Stars: Claudia Alvariño, Rubén Araujo, Blanca Rosa Blanco, René de la Cruz Jr.
Votes: 180
26. Habana Eva (2010)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
A young seamstress in Havana with a dream of becoming a fashion designer, has to choose between the two men she loves - a suave foreign photographer, on a mysterious errand, and her loyal ... See full summary »
Director: Fina Torres | Stars: Prakriti Maduro, Yuliet Cruz, Juan Carlos García, Carlos Enrique Almirante
Votes: 324
27. La guarida del topo (2011)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
Daniel, loner and hermit, is forced to give overnight shelter to Anna, his neighbor's niece. The need for affection and human warmth of these two injured people will emerge, turning into a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfredo Ureta | Stars: Néstor Jiménez, Ketty de la Iglesia, Albertico Pujols Acosta, Héctor Hechemendía
Votes: 5
28. El cuerno de la abundancia (2008)
108 min | Comedy
In a poor rural Cuban town, Bernardo's large extended family can just make ends meet. Then they learn about a trial to distribute among the many bearers of their name the proceeds of a ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Enrique Molina, Paula Ali, Yoima Valdés
Votes: 302
29. Pavlova - Uma Mulher de Sempre (1983– )
M/12 | 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: 188
30. La obra del siglo (2015)
100 min | Drama
In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.
Director: Carlos Quintela | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Mario Guerra, Leonardo Gascón, Jorge Molina
Votes: 106
31. 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, Francisco Gattorno, Edith Massola
Votes: 46
32. Osceola (1971)
109 min | Western, Drama
Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida, they live a simple horticultural life. But ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Petzold | Stars: Gojko Mitic, Horst Schulze, Iurie Darie, Karin Ugowski
Votes: 171
33. Últimos días en La Habana (2016)
93 min | Drama
A Cuban man dying of AIDS in Havana.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Jorge Martínez, Gabriela Ramos, Yailene Sierra, Patricio Wood
Votes: 140
34. 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: 118
35. La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Tercera parte: El poder popular (1979)
80 min | Documentary
Completed two years after La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Primera parte: La insurrección de la burguesía (1975) and La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un ... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
Votes: 638
36. La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Segunda parte: El golpe de estado (1976)
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: 802
37. Insumisa (2018)
94 min | Drama | Completed
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, Laura Cazador | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Mario Guerra, Antonio Buíl, Héctor Noas
38. As Três Irmãs (1995–2003)
24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Anna, Teresa and Helena are naughty triplets that always get into a mess. As punishment the Bored Witch sends the girls into a tale in order to learn the lesson.
Votes: 199
39. Suite Habana (2003)
85 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: 551
40. La vida es silbar (1998)
106 min | Drama
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: José Andrade, Maudelet Badia, Elena Bolaños, Rolando Brito
Votes: 653 | Gross: $0.06M
41. 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: 68
42. O homem de Maisinicu (1973)
124 min | Drama, Thriller
Director: Manuel Pérez | Stars: Mario Balmaseda, Miguel Benavides, Rogelio Blain, Iván Colas
Votes: 26
43. Mina, viento de libertad (1977)
119 min | Drama, Adventure, War
Xavier Mina accepted the commission to lead a liberating expedition in support of General Morelos. He failed to arrive in Mexico until Morelos had died and the Mexican Congress (which in ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Eceiza | Stars: José Alonso, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Héctor Bonilla, Sergio Corrieri
Votes: 21
44. La bella del Alhambra (1989)
108 min | Musical, Drama
Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.
Director: Enrique Pineda Barnet | Stars: Beatriz Valdés, Omar Valdés, César Évora, Carlos Cruz
Votes: 82
45. Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano (2004)
90 min | Documentary
This film examines the creation and exhibition of the propaganda film I Am Cuba, a Soviet/Cuban collaboration unknown in the West until the 1990s.
Director: Vicente Ferraz | Stars: Othon Bastos, Alexander Calzatti, Fidel Castro, Luz María Collazo
Votes: 339
46. Vestido de novia (2014)
100 min | Drama
In 90's Havana, a nurse and a home builder hopelessly in love, live happily married, A circumstantial fact of her past life, will put their feelings to test and undermine the most elemental principles.
Director: Marilyn Solaya | Stars: Laura De la Uz, Luis Alberto García, Mario Guerra, Andros Perugorría
Votes: 40
47. Miel para Oshún (2001)
R | 126 min | Comedy
When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is ... See full summary »
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Saturnino García
Votes: 174
48. Barrio Cuba (2005)
105 min | Drama
Over several years, we follow three households and their emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely happy. An older man, Ignacio, professes his love for her; her father and ... See full summary »
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos, Mario Limonta, Adela Legrá
Votes: 133
49. Bolívar, el hombre de las dificultades (2013)
117 min | Adventure, Biography, History
By the first time, Simon Bolivars story is been told from the perspective about the man, not the heroe but the human been itself; with his weakness and troubles that led him to think even ... See full synopsis »
Director: Luis Alberto Lamata | Stars: Roque Valero, Alberto Alifa, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Camila Arteche
Votes: 329
50. Nada (2001)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
In Havana, a post office branch is more than a place of bureaucratic rules and regulations to ensure effective public services. This is where Carla Perez works. A young dreamer, this ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti | Stars: Thais Valdés, Nacho Lugo, Daisy Granados, Paula Ali
Votes: 294