Highest-Rated Movies about 'Cuba', Sort by Popularity

The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Five Obstructions (2003), The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Guantanamera (1994), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), A Tuba to Cuba (2018), Che: Part One (2008), Before Night Falls (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cuba movies.

#16. Juan of the Dead (2011)

Storyline: Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan's friend, is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are "going crazy", killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government. Juan starts a business to profit off of killing the zombies, but the group may soon find their own lives at risk.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: communist, survivor, killer, gory, cuba, havana, zombies ...

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#17. The Gun Runners (1958)

Storyline: Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.—<rita.richardson@arch2nara.gov>

Plot Keywords: skipper, arms dealer, wife, first mate, revolutionary, femme fatale, suspenseful ...

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#19. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Storyline: Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: smuggler, husband, sister, treasury agent, doctor, police officer, tense ...

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#20. Topaz (1969)

Storyline: A high ranking Russian official defects to the U.S., where he is interviewed by U.S. Agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing N.A.T.O. secrets to the Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre Devereaux to expose the spies.

Plot Keywords: cia agent, spy, kgb agent, wife, journalist, suspenseful, intense ...

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#21. China Clipper (1936)

Storyline: Inspired by Lindbergh's flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. With flying ace Hap Stuart he tries clipper ships on the Caribbean, then aims for the trans-Pacific route. His relentless ambition forces those closest to him to abandon him.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: engineer, entrepreneur, business partner, aviator, wife, father, gripping ...

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#22. Anthony Adverse (1936)

Storyline: In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the lover in a swordfight, and takes his wife on a long trip throughout Europe. Months later, she dies giving birth to a son. The husband leaves the child at a convent, where he is raised until the age of 10; then he is apprenticed to a local merchant, who gives him the name "Anthony Adverse" because of the adversity in his life. But his adversity has only begun, as fate takes him to Cuba, Africa, and Paris.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>

Plot Keywords: hero, pretty woman, father, mother, grandfather, melodramatic, emotional ...

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#23. The Perez Family (1995)

Storyline: In an attempt to secure a sponsor, an unlikely group of Cuban refugees become a "family" as the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service gives families priority over others. In the process, a political prisoner who hasn't seen his wife for twenty years and a disaffected sugarcane cutter fall in love. An excitable brother and a lovestruck cop contribute to the general confusion. The inevitable humorous romantic entaglements ensue as a final confrontation is set up.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

Plot Keywords: immigrant, political prisoner, prostitute, wife, clerk, daughter, hilarious ...

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#24. Original Sin (2001)

Storyline: When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking.

Plot Keywords: mail-order bride, husband, con artist, prostitute, ex-husband, salesman, intricate ...

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#25. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

Storyline: In November 1958, the American teenager Katey Miller moves with her parents and her younger sister to Havana. Her father is an executive of Ford expatriated to Cuba, and Katey is an excellent high school senior student that misses her friends. The family is lodged in a fancy hotel, where Katey accidentally meets the local teenage waiter Javier Suarez. Later she sees Javier dancing in a public square and they become friends, but he is fired from the hotel because her acquaintances have seen them together. Katey invites Javier to participate of a Latin Ballroom Contest in the local Palace club to help him to raise some money, and she secretly meets him in the La Rosa Negra nightclub for rehearsals. Later they fall in love for each other in times of revolution.

Plot Keywords: high-school student, mother, rich girl, poor boy, dance instructor, waiter, passionate ...

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#27. The Missiles of October (1974)

Storyline: A group of escaped prisoners, traveling in a hot air balloon, have to land on a remote islands and must try to survive there. They encounter a castaway, pirates, and captain Nemo with his array of scientific gadgets to keep strangers off his island.

Plot Keywords: john f. kennedy, diplomat, robert f. kennedy, tense, disturbing, gripping, engaging ...

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#28. Day of the Flowers (2012)

Storyline: Two Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a popular party girl, travel to Cuba to scatter their late father's ashes. In losing and trying to reclaim their father's ashes, the bickering sisters set off on a journey that them takes them through romance, danger, and the discovery of old family secrets.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: dancer, party girl, heartwarming, cuba, culture clash, family secrets, discovery ...

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#29. Che! (1969)

Storyline: Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: fidel castro, revolutionary, military officer, peasant, soldier, cuban, emotional ...

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