Paula Ali
Biography: Se vinculó al mundo del espectáculo en 1959 en Cuba, cuando comenzó a trabajar como modelo en la televisión. En 1965, pasó al Teatro Martí, lugar emblemático en la cultura cubana por el teatro vernáculo que allí se hacía con famosos actores del género bufo. En 1970, se integró al grupo Teatro Estudio, uno de los más prestigiosos de Cuba, donde ha permanecido hasta la actualidad. Durante los dos últimos años ha colaborado también con el grupo El Público: su protagónico en la obra La Celestina, con dirección de Carlos Díaz, ha sido un gran éxito. En su larga carrera teatral ha interpretado importantes personajes en obras clásicas del teatro cubano y universal. Paralelamente ha actuado en 6 telenovelas, además de haber participado en múltiples teleplays, teatros en T.V. y otros seriados, como el popular programa humorístico Punto G. Ha realizados giras por Portugal, Yugoslavia, España, Ecuador, Venezuela y Colombia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1938
Deathday: N/A
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Horn of Plenty
2008-10-24
Horn of Plenty
Overview: An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Mila Caos
2011-05-20
Mila Caos
Overview: Every weekend at an illegal drag show in the suburbs of Havana, Sebastián, a 17-year-old Cuban teenager, transforms into 'Mila Caos', his empowered, flamboyant alter-ego. When he returns to his daytime self, Sebastián suffers from his mother's indifference, dreaming that one day she will see him on stage for who he truly is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-05-20
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Nada+
2001-11-30
Nada+
Overview: Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Supporting Roles
1989-01-01
Supporting Roles
Overview: A prestigious theater group in crisis prepares for the staging of a famous love tragedy. Mirtha, an actress marked by frustration, decides to leave the theater when a guest conductor offered a starring role. The incorporation of young actors, unscrupulous, and an inspector trigger a series of situations that will endanger the reputation and power of the actress who heads the group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Nelsito's World
2022-12-04
Nelsito's World
Overview: A car accident. The victim is Nelsito, a 16-year-old autistic teenager, who has runaway from home. From his stretchter and through his imaginary pen, Nelsito reveals the dark and hidden side of all those around him: perverse children, murderous women, adorable swindling girls... Until he recovers...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-12-04
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The House of Bernalda Alba
The House of Bernalda Alba
Overview: Located in deep Spain at the beginning of the 20th century, the work reveals a traditional society where violence and oppression against women is exercised even by women themselves in a mimetic replica of the model imposed by patriarchal society. The presentation goes from contemporaneity to the time with the character of Bernarda and returns to the contemporaneity with that of Adela, emphasizing what we must leave in the past and the freedom that we defend for our present.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: es
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Lisanka
2010-07-15
Lisanka
Overview: Revolves around a love triangle that later evolves into a love square involving three Cubans and a Soviet soldier. Set in a fictitious rural village near a Soviet military base in central Cuba, their amorous adventures, or misadventures, unravel against the backdrop of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-07-15
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Viva
2015-11-08
Viva
Overview: Jesús, a young hairdresser, works at a Havana nightclub for drag performers and dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesús finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when Angel, his estranged father recently released from a 15-year stint in prison, abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. The macho Angel tries to squash his son’s ambition to perform in drag. Father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, struggling to understand one another and reconcile as a family. Shot in a gritty neighborhood far from the Havana most tourists know, Viva is a heartrending story of music, performance, and survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-11-08
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Love by Mistake
2004-03-27
Love by Mistake
Overview: Julio del Toro is a successful writer in his fifties, who has always had his life under his control, until the day that, returning from one of his frequent foreign travel, this consistent world will fall into crisis. His daughter has started an affair with a Spanish older than him, his mistress poses a serious ultimatum, a young journalist begins to prepare a report on his work, and he faces the question if he is already finished as a creator. While Julio feels increasingly confused and disoriented, the women around him will make the decisions that he is not able to take.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-03-27
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El premio flaco
2009-10-20
El premio flaco
Overview: Iluminada lives a poor life but her luck turns around when she wins a prize from a Rina brand soap.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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Che
1997-01-01
Che
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?
2017-06-06
¿Por qué lloran mis amigas?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-06-06
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Oscuros rinocerontes enjaulados... muy a la moda
1990-07-01
Oscuros rinocerontes enjaulados... muy a la moda
Overview: In a Havana public office, the charwoman discovers the sexual activities among the workers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1990-07-01
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Vertical Love
1997-12-16
Vertical Love
Overview: The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters' tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building minus stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban commissars arrive with papers and forms because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-12-16
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Sangre
2018-08-03
Sangre
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Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-08-03
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