Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Movies

A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.

Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her...

A close-up examination of laborers creating Cuban cigars intercut with artistic advertising labels and postures for those cigars. Silent with musical...

Documentary that portrays the life of a coal-mining town south of Havana, around 1955, prior to the triumph of the revolution.

Based on the novel Francisco by Anselmo Suárez y Romero, "The Other Francisco" is a socio-economic analysis of slavery and class struggle...

A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.

The unfair distribution of land in Cuba encourages the support of the peasants to the revolution.

A short film based on a story by Franz Kafka. Two men meet to resolve an issue, but are unable to do so due to a series of adverse circumstances.

A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban...

A couple faces various difficulties due to the new realities that accompany the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.