Vladimir Cruz
Biography: Vladimir Cruz Marrero (born 26 July 1965) is a Cuban actor, screenwriter, playwright, film and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 26, 1965
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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Strawberry and Chocolate
1993-12-01
Strawberry and Chocolate
Overview: Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging its Cuban audience with great humour. Based on the short story by Cuban writer Senel Paz.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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The Waiting List
2000-06-02
The Waiting List
Overview: 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 already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-06-02
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Afinidades
2011-12-02
Afinidades
Overview: Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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The Reasons of the Heart
2011-10-07
The Reasons of the Heart
Overview: In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-07
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De Colores
2003-01-01
De Colores
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Arcibel's Game
2003-05-29
Arcibel's Game
Overview: A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2003-05-29
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The Bad Girl
2008-05-29
The Bad Girl
Overview: Determined not to simply get married, start a family, and grow old like the rest of the girls in her town, an aspiring Cuban diva sets out to launch a career as a singer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-05-29
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The Wooden Box
2006-10-27
The Wooden Box
Overview: After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Capablanca
1987-06-11
Capablanca
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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Che: Part One
2008-09-05
Che: Part One
Overview: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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A Paradise Under the Stars
2000-04-20
A Paradise Under the Stars
Overview: Like her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the nightclub.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
1997-05-09
Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
Overview: A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it won't be easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Oscuros Amores
2022-12-16
Oscuros Amores
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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The Human Thing
2016-01-21
The Human Thing
Overview: A thief breaks into the home of a famous writer, unknowingly stealing what turns out to be the only manuscript of an upcoming story. In desperate need of money, he submits it to a contest...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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7 Days in Havana
2012-04-05
7 Days in Havana
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-04-05
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Viva Sapato!
2003-05-17
Viva Sapato!
Overview: A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Winds of Havana
2016-09-30
Winds of Havana
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Little Tropikana
1997-09-18
Little Tropikana
Overview: Lorenzo, a Cuban policeman specializing in grave robberies is sent to Havana to investigate the death of a Havana-born German national, Hermann (or German in Spanish) found in a famous grave. Lorenzo recounts his findings to the police chief (Major Anancio) as he investigates Dora, an elevator operator and Herrmann's landlady, Aguila and Silvia (who work for Cultural Affairs), Chrissy (a British-born Socialist Internationalist lover), Xiomara (Hermann's mother and a local drag queen as well), a dwarf, and a false Guatemalan who had raped Chrissy during her internationalist "love/sex campaign" in Guatemala. These are the main, but not the only characters, one must absolutely follow to make sense of the plot.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-09-18
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The Good Demons
2018-04-20
The Good Demons
Overview: Tito is 23 years old with a mother who loves him and a car that allows him to earn an honest living. His neighbors see him as a formal and educated boy. Nobody knows that behind that façade hides someone with a nihilistic vision of life. And that involves committing terrible acts for which he may have to pay someday. But Tito does not care about the future. There is only the present.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Una novia para David
1987-01-01
Una novia para David
Overview: The story of students of a high school in Havana in the 60's, where love, politics, and moral contradictions appeared. A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Finally, the Sea
2005-01-27
Finally, the Sea
Overview: Tony is a Cuban-American Metals trader. One sunny morning, while fishing off Key West-Florida, he finds the wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. The rafters names were carved on the wood of the boat (Pablo and Mariana). Tony travels to Cuba to find the Family of the rafters to tell them what he had found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. Tony finds the family and, shocked and surprised, finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea, and she awakens in him his true destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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