ICAIC Popular Movie

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergio Corrieri

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Compay Segundo

Simón transports illegal immigrants to New York, leaving them to their fate. When he is discovered by the coastguard, a young sailor, named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jorge Perugorría

Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Santiago Alfonso

While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Alexis Díaz de Villegas

Narrative of a period of life (1926 - 1934) of the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Sandino, who was known as "The general of free men."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jorge Perugorría

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomás Cao

In his award-winning film Lucía, Humberto Solás interpreted the theme of Cuba’s hundred years' struggle in an entirely novel way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raquel Revuelta

Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlos Enrique Almirante

In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergio Corrieri

In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gabriel García Márquez

Meet Chala, an eleven year-old boy with a hard life and strong respect for Carmela, his sixth grade teacher. The pair develops a solid bond, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armando Valdés Freyre

Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in...

Genre: War

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being moved to reservations. Having retreated to Florida,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gojko Mitić

Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ángela Molina

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dieter Montag

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lyndon B. Johnson

Gorka has long postponed again and again the answer to the pressing questions that his son Aitor asks about his past. Gorka, a member of ETA...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asier Hormaza