Che: Part One (2008), The Gun Runners (1958), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Che! (1969), Cuba (1979), Havana (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cuban Revolution movies.
Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: revolutionary, fidel castro, soldier, doctor, intellectual, dictator, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An anti-Castro British mercenary (Sean Connery) sees his rich ex-lover (Brooke Adams) in hot 1958 Havana.
Plot Keywords: mercenary, rebel, lover, plantation owner, soldier, brother, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Weil (Robert Redford), a professional gambler, enjoys the hedonistic lifestyle of Batista's Cuba, where he is organizing a crucial poker game that could make or break him. He meets seductive Bobby Duran (Lena Olin) and is surprised that she, a wealthy woman, is aiding Fidel Castro and his communist rebels. Apolitical Jack doesn't usually take sides, but after Bobby and her husband, Arturo (Raul Julia), are arrested, he contemplates risking everything to help their cause.
Plot Keywords: gambler, wealthy woman, revolutionary, husband, gangster, cia agent, gripping ...
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