Acting

Luis Alberto García

Born November 10, 1961 · Cuba (age 64)

Luis Alberto García. Popular actor cubano con una de las carreras actorales más sólidas de Cuba en todos los tiempos. Desde su aparición en las pantallas y teatros, se ha convertido en uno de los más importantes y populares intérpretes escénicos. Graduado en 1984, del Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), en la especialidad de Actuación. Ha incursionado en todos los medios, y ha demostrado que puede …

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Boccaccerías Habaneras

Boccaccerías Habaneras · 2013

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.

Che: Part One

Che: Part One · 2008

MovieDramaHistory

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

El Regresado

El Regresado · 2026

Cuba, early 21st century. Mandi is a young art graduate who returns to his small coastal town to complete his community service. There, he must confront a local reality that clashes with his aspirations and ideals, placing him at a crossroads between avoiding confrontation within an oppressive political context and pursuing personal and artistic freedom.

Viva Cuba

Viva Cuba · 2005

MovieDramaFantasy

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

Los Frikis

Los Frikis · 2024

Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Chronic Love

Chronic Love · 2012

Amor Crónico follows Grammy-nominated, Cuban-born CuCu Diamantes as she embarks on a whirlwind tour of her home country. Interweaving glamorous live performances with a fictional romance, the film pays tribute to the history of cinema in surreal fashion. Backed by a high energy Latin soundtrack, Cucu's journey is a visual love poem to the sites, sounds, and people of Cuba.

Domino

In a tenement in a poor Havana neighborhood, four men are playing a game of dominoes: Rodríguez and Nicanor versus Sangremono and Pepe “the Victim.” Once the game has begun, Rodríguez suddenly mentions that he has heard some astonishing news that concerns the future of the country and every one of its inhabitants…

Brainstorm

Brainstorm · 2009

A world record, an accident, a heroic act, a matter of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The editorial board of the newspaper La Avanzada must decide what goes on the front page.

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Boccaccerías Habaneras

Boccaccerías Habaneras · 2013

Boccaccerías Habaneras

Three stories, loosely inspired on short stories from classic Boccaccio’s Decameron, are connected by a creatively-bankrupt writer who offers money in exchange for original subjects.

Guido

Che: Part One

Che: Part One · 2008

MovieDramaHistory

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba.

Colonel Joaquín Casillas Lumpuy

El Regresado

El Regresado · 2026

Cuba, early 21st century. Mandi is a young art graduate who returns to his small coastal town to complete his community service. There, he must confront a local reality that clashes with his aspirations and ideals, placing him at a crossroads between avoiding confrontation within an oppressive political context and pursuing personal and artistic freedom.

Leon

Viva Cuba

Viva Cuba · 2005

MovieDramaFantasy

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

Espeleolog (voice)

Los Frikis

Los Frikis · 2024

Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Mateo

Chronic Love

Chronic Love · 2012

Amor Crónico follows Grammy-nominated, Cuban-born CuCu Diamantes as she embarks on a whirlwind tour of her home country. Interweaving glamorous live performances with a fictional romance, the film pays tribute to the history of cinema in surreal fashion. Backed by a high energy Latin soundtrack, Cucu's journey is a visual love poem to the sites, sounds, and people of Cuba.

Domino

In a tenement in a poor Havana neighborhood, four men are playing a game of dominoes: Rodríguez and Nicanor versus Sangremono and Pepe “the Victim.” Once the game has begun, Rodríguez suddenly mentions that he has heard some astonishing news that concerns the future of the country and every one of its inhabitants…

Nicanor

Brainstorm

Brainstorm · 2009

A world record, an accident, a heroic act, a matter of scientific interest. All this happens simultaneously. The editorial board of the newspaper La Avanzada must decide what goes on the front page.

Nicanor O'Donnell

Pure Blood

Pure Blood · 1982

MovieCrimeHorror

Roberto Hurtado suffers from a rare disease that requires massive transfusions of blood from children or adolescents. His son blackmails three employees to get blood for him and they resort to unscrupulous methods to obtain it.

Adolfo Hurtado

Estrés

It's an open wound. With Estrés, Marilyn Solaya doesn't seek to tell stories: she exposes them, shakes them up, leaves them unanesthetized. In six intertwined stories, the director turns everyday life into an emotional battlefield, where poverty, love, illness, and dignity clash relentlessly.

Espejuelos oscuros

Espejuelos oscuros · 2015

Espejuelos oscuros

A blind woman living alone in the country tells tales to a criminal holding her captive to keep him calm.

Living Dangerously

Living Dangerously · 1987

Living Dangerously

In 1950s Havana, a romance blooms between two young revolutionaries whose clandestine printing press publishes pamphlets meant to stir up rebellion against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. As their popularity grows, so, too, does their revolutionary zeal and their desire to mobilize other urban guerilla units.

7 Days in Havana

7 Days in Havana · 2012

7 Days in Havana

A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.

Barman en Bar Silvia (segment "El Yuma")

The Campaign

The Campaign · 2021

Cuba, 1961. A young teacher arrives with the intention of teaching a peasant family to read and write…

Escrutinio Bolaños

Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens · 2006

Nicanor, his wife, and his in-laws watch Cuban television. In a single twenty-minute shot, the differences surface between Nicanor, who supports the Revolution, and his father-in-law Damián Rodríguez, a former Batista supporter. The two women try in vain to mediate, and the conflict seems irreconcilable. However, they have no choice but to make up with each other every night.

Nicanor O'Donnell

Monte Rouge

Monte Rouge · 2004

Nicanor has just finished the ritual of preparing himself a gourmet coffee when two strangers knock at his door. They identify themselves as members of State Security, who have come to install microphones in his house to listen to the antigovernment remarks Nicanor makes. Since they only have two microphones, they ask for his help in choosing the best room to install them and tell him that from now on he can only make his comments in that room.

Nicanor O'Donnell

Juan of the Dead

Juan of the Dead · 2011

Juan of the Dead

MovieHorrorComedy

While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."

Padre De Niño

Oscuros Amores

Oscuros Amores · 2022

Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.

Mendiondo

Aché

Havana, 1974. Almost every day, Ana puts a cuban flag on the balcony. The flag is faded and full of stains. Ana suggests to her husband Nicanor to get another one. From there the couple will be doomed to unexpected complications...

Nicanor

Dos veteranos

Dos veteranos · 2019

Cuba has changed in the near future, but Nicanor and his friends still meet in a park to talk about politics…

Nicanor

Intermezzo

Intermezzo · 2008

At an unspecified event, everyone votes in favor. Unexpectedly, there is one vote against: Nicanor O’Donnell’s. When Nicanor goes to the bathroom during the intermission, some curious delegates follow him, eager to find out why he dared to vote against. The suspicion that someone is locked in a stall, listening to everything, turns their sympathy into mistrust toward Nicanor. But the one locked in the stall is also a poor wretch.

Nicanor O'Donnell

Chamaco

Chamaco · 2010

MovieCrimeDrama

When a young man is killed in Central Park in La Habana, a series of coincidences reveals that many of the night walkers that hang around the park are related to the crime.

Saúl Alter

Casting

Casting · 2013

A group of actors shows up to audition for the lead role in a co-production with Germany. Through their interviews and interactions, their miseries, desires, and frustrations are gradually revealed. The selection process takes three days; in the end, there is only one winner…

Luis, Claudio

Malecón

Malecón · 2025

After a tragic incident in which he kills his abusive stepfather, Elvis is sent to prison and separated from his childhood sweetheart, Yuli. Once released he is dragged into the sordid world of prostitution in Cuba and faces a critical decision: fight to win back Yuli's love or flee to the United States and start a new life.

Elvis's stepfather

The Cry of the Butterflies

The Cry of the Butterflies · 2023

The Cry of the Butterflies

This series examines the events leading up the brutal murder of Dominican activist Minerva Mirabal and her two activist sisters, on the orders of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. The heinous crime would set in motion not only the end of a vicious regime, but also come to mark the global fight against gender-based violence.

Rafael Leónidas Trujillo

Four Seasons in Havana

Four Seasons in Havana · 2016

Four Seasons in Havana

SeriesDramaCrime

As Havana slowly revolves through the year, wistful detective Mario Conde probes the sultry heart of the city to investigate dark and deadly crimes.

Carlos 'El Flaco'