ICAIC Popular Movie

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

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

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

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

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

This black-and-white film is a loving portrait of Santiago de Cuba and its people. It provides a view of Cuba as a picturesque country, the product...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Victoria Nápoles

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

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Galina Belyaeva

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

The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Oleg Vidov

Gonzalo's life has been marked by the story of his mother, a Mambisa heroine of the war of 1895. After her death, he is sent to Spain. In 1931, he...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Roberto Enríquez

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

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

At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vladimir Cruz

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

Professor Von Dracula, a vampire scientist, leaves Transylvania for Cuba, where he invents "Vampisol," a potion that allows vampires to survive in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank González

The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diego Bertie

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Salvador Wood

Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off 'Now!', one of the most powerful...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lena Horne