Luis Alberto García
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Biography: 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 dominar un amplio registro de estilos de actuación. Sus personajes van desde policías encubiertos hasta motoristas frustrados y ha navegado tanto por la interpretación lírica como por la comedia. Su cercanía con otros campos como la pintura, la realización fílmica, la música y la literatura son ampliamente conocidas. Su espíritu inquieto le llevó a realizar uno de los documentales más completos que se le hayan dedicado al historiador de la Ciudad de la Habana Eusebio Leal Spengler. "Leal al Tiempo"
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cuba
Adult: No
Birthday: November 10, 1961
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Male
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Viva Cuba
Overview: 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),
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-04-20
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Guantanamera
Overview: During the 'Special Period', the members of a funeral procession cross paths with truckdrivers who have to take the same route, and begin to talk about God and the world. They discover that life for both groups has many similarities, as well as a lot of differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-09-03
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The Last Supper
Overview: A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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Aché
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-12-10
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Juan of the Dead
Overview: 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."
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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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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Day of the Flowers
Overview: Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the site of many family legends of his services to the Revolution. Arriving in Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost illusions.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-29
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Adorables mentiras
Overview: Jose Luis, a young boy with aspirations to become a scriptwriter and director of cinema, is dazzled on having known the beautiful Sissy. To impress her, he appears as the director who looks for a not professional actress. She, that the whole life has dreamed of being 'discovered' but that it is not naive with men, pretends not to be interested. They begin a relationship in wich both are not as they wanted to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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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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Habanastation
Overview: Directed mainly for kids, the film speaks of a Havana that reveals two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids.
Genres: Fantasy Family Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2011-08-25
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Le huitième étage, jours de révolte
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-19
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Chamaco
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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Malecón
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-08
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Zafiros, Locura Azul
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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His Wedding Dress
Overview: In 90's Habana, a nurse and a home builder, hopelessly in love, live happily married. A circumstantial fact of her past life will put their feelings to test and undermine the most elemental principles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-12-06
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Living Dangerously
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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Los Frikis
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-20
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Madrigal
Overview: 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. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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The Elephant and The Bicycle
Overview: After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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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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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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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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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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Boccaccerías Habaneras
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Club Habana
Overview: Barbara is about to travel to Spain for an exhibition of her paintings. The night before starting her journey there is a hurricane and she has to stay in a nightclub until the morning. During the night she comes into contact with different people who have a variety of conflicts and interests. She is drawn into this microcosm which seems to be a reflection of Cuban society today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Espejuelos oscuros
Overview: A blind woman living alone in the country tells tales to a criminal holding her captive to keep him calm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-12-12
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Ya no es antes
Overview: The story of a couple during the stay in the apartment of one of them. During that time, both their emotional states will constantly change due to a love that has consumed them, the promises that have not yet been fulfilled, and the time that has passed and will not return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Chronic Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2012-03-11
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Mambí
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Things I Left in Havana
Overview: Three sisters leave Cuba in search of a better life in Madrid. While there, they encounter, among other things, other Cuban expatriates.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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Before the Ferry Arrives
Overview: A portrait of Havana in the middle of the whirlwind of the post restoration of US-Cuba relations. An impasse of uncertainty and vertigo, a feeling of time standing still while future flies away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2018-10-15
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A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Overview: In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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Pure Blood
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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Hitting Bottom
Overview: Juan Gutiérrez, 44, an electrician, has been unemployed for a long time. He decides to leave his family to go find work in Madrid, believing that in the big city the opportunities will be greater. Once there, he discovers that things are not as he believed. He is an electrician. He doesn't want to clean windshields at stoplights or clean cabarets at dawn. He wants to work as an electrician. Occasionally she meets Andy, a Caribbean mulatto who boasts bulletproof optimism. With his sharp wit, he manages as best he can, trying not to be found by the immigration authorities. Despite the distances, "Gallego" and "Sudaca" become friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Cerro de la cruz
Overview: A young revolutionary on the verge of death finds himself trapped in his desires for love. His feelings in the midst of war are clarified when he discovers that he wants to love and be loved by another man. This short film questions the notions of hatred that arise in homophobic coexistence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Demasiado caliente para ti
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Las profecías de Amanda
Overview: Amanda has the gift of prophecy since she was a child. This unique gift causes the interest, fear and rejection of teachers, psychologists, journalists, friends and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-07-22
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