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DVD Cuba
 - I am Cuba 
A most acclaimed discovery, I Am Cuba will change your view of cinema
forever! Filmed by great Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov . I Am Cuba
is an epic poem to Communist kitsch--a whirling, feverish dance through
the sensuous decadence of Battista's Havana and the grinding poverty
and oppression of the Cuban people. Presented jointly by master
directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, I Am Cuba has
received universal acclaim and admiration from around the world as a
true classic of world cinema..
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
 - Cuba 
Set in Cuba as the Castro revolution
is coming to fruition, it stars Connery as an aging mercenary trying to decide
which side it pays to be paid by. Even as the Batista government is being
overthrown, he is putting the spark to an old relationship with a factory
manager, while American businessmen scramble to get the most bang for their
buck..
Directed by Richard Lester
 - Havana
The story of a high-stakes gambler (Robert Redford)
who comes to Cuba seeking the big score in poker games, following his expectation
that high rollers will bet wildly as the Cuban government crashes around
their heads. In Havana, Redford meets the wife of a Communist revolutionary
with ties to Castro, and their attraction becomes powerfully mutual after
her husband is presumed killed by Cuban police.
Directed by Sydney Pollack
 - Thirteen days 
Kevin Costner stars in this inside look at how the
Kennedy Administration responded to the discovery of offensive Soviet weapons
in Cuba, and the pressurized tug-of-war that ensued between the US and the
USSR during the thirteen days of the missile crisi .
Directed by Roger Donaldson
 - Topaz 
The story of the West's investigation
into the Soviet Union's dealings with Cuba his own. Frederick Stafford plays
a French intelligence agent who works with his American counterpart (John
Forsythe) to break up a Soviet spy ring
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 - Scarface
Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's
cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of
addiction and inevitable assassination.
Directed by Brian de Palma
Available on Amazon.com
 - Waiting list 
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 (Jorge Perugorria)
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
Directed by Juan Carlos Tabío
 - Buena Vista Social Club 
Wenders splits the film between portraits of the performers,
who tell their stories directly to the camera as they wander the streets
and neighborhoods of Havana, and a celebration of the music heard in performance
scenes in the studio, in their first concert in Amsterdam, and in their second
and final concert at Carnegie Hall.
Directed by Wim Wenders
 - Cuba feliz 
This is a joyful and uninhibited journey
into Cuba’s musical soul. The film follows Miguel del Morales, a 76 year-old
troubadour known as El Gallo (The Rooster) as he wanders the country meeting
people of all persuasions who share the passion of music that is central
to the life and dreams of the Cuban People.
Directed by Karim Dridi
- Gloria Estefan - Live in Miami
If you are a Gloria Estefan fan, you will not be disappointed. This is one
long performance and I loved every minute of it. The best from the 80's and
90's.
Available on Amazon.com
- Gloria Estefan - Que siga la tradicion
Que Siga la
Tradicion invites you to take a journey with Gloria Estefan back to her
roots where the sounds infuse the soul. It is a selection of Gloria's
greatest Latin hits from the Grammy Award-winning albums Mi Tierra,
Abriendo Puertas, and her new release Alma Caribeña, featuring
such songs as "Oye," "Mi Tierra," and "Por un Beso." Plus bonus
documentary and interview footage.
- Celia Cruz - Azucar
Hosted by pop and
Latin singing sensations Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony, this all-star
tribute honors the undisputed Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz, an artist of
immeasurable standing whose career has spanned more than five decades.
Her music and incomparable charisma have touched the hearts and souls
of millions of people from every race, nationality, and culture
throughout the world. The Queen of Salsa has carried her title with
class and distinction; her powerful voice and electrifying rhythm have
garnered more than 60 worldwide recognitions, multiple gold and
platinum records, and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
- Los Van VanNew
The most famous
band of cuban music. One DVD abs 2 CD of a concert in Karl Marx theater
of Havana. Available in music store in Havana.
 - Memorias del subdesarollo
Sergio
decides to stay in Cuba while all of his family leaves the country.
While being alone, he will try to find some sense to his life, writing
his memories. This DVD is on sale in Havana at "Fresa y Chocolate
café" calle 23 on Vedado.
Directed by Tomas Gutierrez alea.
 - The 12 chairs New
When her
country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman
can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new
government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a
dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done
and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the
possession of a dozen different peoples (in Spanish with english subtitles). This DVD is on sale in Havana at "Fresa y Chocolate café"
calle 23 on Vedado.
Directed by Tomas Gutierrez alea.
 - The last supper New
Attempting
to fulfill a religious obligation, the Count of a sugar mill in Cuba at
the end of the eighteenth century decides to recreate the Last Supper,
playing Jesus Christ himself and randomly selecting twelve slaves as
his disciples (in Spanish with english subtitles). This DVD is on sale in Havana at "Fresa y Chocolate café"
calle 23 on Vedado.
Directed by Tomas Gutierrez alea.
 - Guantanamera New
When
Aunt Yoyita dies during a visit to Gina in Guantánamo, Gina,
along with Yoyita's childhood sweetheart, the aging Cándido,
must take the body to Havana. To their annoyance, Gina's overbearing
husband Adolfo, a punctilious undertaker with political ambitions,
takes charge of the journey. On the road, they keep crossing paths with
Mariano, a trucker who's a playboy with a woman at every way station (in Spanish with english subtitles). This DVD is on sale in Havana at "Fresa y Chocolate café"
calle 23 on Vedado.
Directed by Tomas Gutierrez alea.
 - El Benny New
It is a
movie that travels through 3 stages of the life of the legendary Cuban
singer Benny Moré (in Spanish with english subtitles).This DVD
is on sale in Havana at "Fresa y Chocolate café"
calle 23 on Vedado.
Directed by Jorge Luis Sanchez.
 - Fidel New
This
drama traces the rise of one of history's most intriguing and
controversial figures - from a guerilla outpost to the presidential
palace
Directed by David Attwood
 - The lost city
El
Tropico is an elegant nightclub; the owner, Fico and his family live a
life of privilege in Havana, but Fico and his father hope to steer the
brutal reign of Batista towards democratic reforms. Fico's two brothers
are not so patient and get caught up in the guerilla forces that seek
to overthrow Batista by force; one dies after a failed coup attempt,
the other joins Castro's revolutionary army. Meanwhile, Fico and his
widowed sister-in-law Aurora fall in love, their romance unfolding in
the still-thriving Havana nightlife, while during the day Castro's new
regime turns more repressive.
Directed by Andy Garcia.
 - Before night falls
Based on
the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before
Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel's second exercise in
artist biography, but where Schnabel's earlier film Basquiat was
relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and
execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamored of his subject as a noble
martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance.
Still, it's rare to see an artist's life and work so elegantly
interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas's life as its
canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950's
Cuba; imprisonment during Castro's antigay regime; and to New York City
in 1980, followed by Arenas's battle with AIDS and subsequent suicide
(depicted here as assisted) in 1990.
Directed by Julian Schnabel.
 - The cranes are flying
An unforgettable classic The war separates two young lovers--they are
forced apart without a chance even to say goodbye--and although we know
that the young man, Boris, has been killed early on, Veronika maintains
hope to the very end despite enduring tremendous hardships.
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
 - Notorious
One of Alfred Hitchcock's classics,
this romantic thriller features a cast to kill for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary
Grant, and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father
who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy
ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain while
developing a deep romantic bond with her. Her assignment: to marry the suspected
head of the ring (Rains) and get the goods on everyone involved
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 - North by northwest
It's a classic Hitchcock Wrong Man scenario: Grant is Roger
O. Thornhill (initials ROT), an advertising executive who is mistaken by
enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent named George Kaplan. Convinced these
sinister fellows are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy Stranger
on a Train , with whom he engages in one of the longest, most convolutedly
choreographed kisses in screen history. And, of course, there are the famous
set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack
in the cornfield, and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount
Rushmore.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 - Rear window
Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur
by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on
assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from
his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of
his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse.
Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald disappears, Jeff enlists the
two women to help him to determine whether she's really left town, as
Thorwald insists, or been murdered.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 - Dressed to kill
Angie Dickinson plays the sexually unsatisfied, fortysomething
wife who's the killer's first target, relaying her sexual fantasies to her
psychiatrist. The focus then switches to a murder witness and Dickinson's
grieving whiz-kid son (Keith Gordon), who attempt to solve the murder while
staying one step ahead (or so they think) of the crude detective assigned
to the case.
Directed by Brian de Palma
 - Carlito's Way
Pacino is rivetting as Carlito Brigante,
a Puerto Rican drug dealer who spent 5 years in prison and trying to reform
his old ways. From the start Brigante is surrounded by former associates
and 'friends' who try to pull him back to his pre-prison lifestyle. With
a keen, streetwise perception, Brigante manages to stay out of harms reach,
and ultimately out of the reach of the law who would like nothing better
than to put him back in prison.
Directed by Brian de Palma
 - Sisters
Danielle, a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique.
When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she
becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A
scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness, De Palma's first
foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen
effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score
Directed by Brian de Palma
 - Body double
This is De Palma at his most sensational, in a story about a B-movie
actor with career problems and a habit as a voyeur. He witnesses the
aforementioned murder, then teams up with a porn actress (Melanie
Griffith) to try and find the killer. A murder involving a female
victim and a killer with a giant power drill.
Directed by Brian de Palma
 - Halloween
The original Halloween is one of the greatest horror movies of all
time. On Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally
murdered his sister in the small town of Haddonfield Illinois. Now, 15
years later, he has escaped from a mental institution to reek havoc
amongst the trick or treaters. Jaime Lee Curtis stars in her first role
as Laurie Strode and is pursued by Michael Myers throughout the entire
movie. Donald Pleasance plays Dr. Sam Loomis (Michael Myers doctor) and
warns Haddonfield Police of Michael's return. Hesitant to believe the
wild accusation Dr. Loomis must hunt Michael down before he can do
anymore harm. Halloween will scare and delight you at the same time.
The music score for Halloween is still creepy almost 25 years later and
is synonymous with the movie. If you only see one horror movie in your
lifetime, see this absolute classic, Halloween.
Directed by John Carpenter
 - The Thing
An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic
is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and
shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no
explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and
attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that
investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the
ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know
who may already have been taken over..
Directed by John Carpenter
 - Reservoir dogs
Joe
has assembled experienced criminals to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly
assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal
their identities from being known even to each other. But something has gone
wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving
robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There,
they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify
the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood
flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men
are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism,
deception, and betrayal.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
 - Pulp fiction
The story consists of 'chapters'
that jump around out of sequence. What you might not know is that the each
and every scene is a little movie in of itself. A little masterpiece.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Available on Amazon.com
 - Jackie Brown
This movie is a slow, decaffeinated
story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally
into the country. The money belongs to Ordell, a gunrunner just bright enough
to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend
Louis is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However,
his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up
girl. Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal
money. The key is the title character, a late-40s-ish flight attendant (Pam
Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's
working for them.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
 - Kill Bill
This is a revenge flick, beginning
with the near-murder of the Bride, pregnant on her wedding day and left for
dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad including their chief - Bill
- who become targets for the Bride's lethal vengeance. Culminating in an
ultraviolent, ultra-stylized tour-de-force showdown,
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
 - Basic instinct
Basic Instinct is an undeniably stylish and provocative study of
obsession. In the role that made her a star (and showed the audience a
little more skin than she intended), Sharon Stone plays the cleverly
manipulative novelist Catherine Tramell who snares San Francisco
detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) with her insatiable sexual
appetite during the investigation of her boyfriend's murder. Tramell is
the prime suspect, but the plot twists and turns until Curran is
trapped in a dangerous cycle of dead ends and unsolved murders, never
sure if Tramell is committing the crimes or if it is some other,
unknown suspect. With a plot that keeps viewers guessing, Basic
Instinct is the work of a director who is clearly in his element
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
 - Once upon time in the West
the story about a woman (Claudia
Cardinale) hanging onto her land in hopes that the transcontinental railroad
would reach her before a steely-eyed, black-hearted killer does. The film's
advertising slogan was: "There were three men in her life. One to take her
... one to love her ... and one to kill her."
Directed by Sergio Leone
 - The name of the rose
14th-century Benedictine monastery.
A series of mysterious and gruesome deaths are somehow tied up with the unwelcome
attention of the Inquisition, sent to root out suspected heretical behavior
among the monastic scribes whose lives are dedicated to transcribing ancient
manuscripts for their famous library, access to which is prevented by an
ingenious maze-like layout. Enter Sean Connery as investigator-monk William
of Baskerville and his naive young assistant Adso. The Grand Inquisitor Bernado
Gui suspects devilry; but William and Adso, using Holmesian forensic techniques,
uncover a much more human cause: the secrets of the library are being protected
at a terrible cost..
Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
 - Die hart
One Christmas New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies out
to Los Angeles to enjoy a nice, quiet Christmas with his estranged wife
Holly, who is climbing up the corporate ladder of the Nakatomi
Corporation. However John arrives at the company office party a few
minutes before a group of terrorists, led by the urbane Hans Gruber,
takes over and holds everybody hostage. While the bad guys begin the
long process of breaking into the building' vault, McClane becomes the
proverbial "fly in the ointment," on the loose in the building and
causing problems.
Directed by John McTiernan
 - The Isle
The Isle tells the story of a mute woman who lives on the edge of a
lake, renting out floats (wonderful little things that are kind of like
beach houses that float out in the middle of the lake), and selling
food, bait, and her body to the people who rent them. She becomes
obsessed with the inhabitant of one of the floats, and the two of them
fumble their way into a love/hate relationship.
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Working miracles with only a single set and a handful of characters,
Kim Ki-Duk creates a wise little gem of a movie. As the title suggests,
the action takes place in five distinct episodes, but sometimes many
years separate the seasons. The setting is a floating monastery in a
pristine mountain lake, where an elderly monk teaches a boy the lessons
of life--although when the boy grows to manhood, he inevitably must
learn a few hard lessons for himself. By the time the story reaches its
final sections, you realize you have witnessed the arc of
existence--not one person's life, but everyone's. It's as enchanting as
a Buddhist fable, but it's not precious; Kim consistently surprises you
with a sex scene or an explosion of black comedy; he also vividly acts
in the Winter segment, when the lake around the monastery eerily freezes
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
 - Bad Guy
Remarkable acting, striking visuals, and dead-on direction from Kim
Ki-Duk make BAD GUY an edgy tour de force. Kim submerges the audience
in the underground world of Seoul's red-light district and takes them
on a surrealistic, darkly romantic ride. It depicts the relationship
between a young college girl forced into prostitution and the pimp who
orchestrated her demise and silently watches from behind a false
mirror.
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
 - Samaritan girl
To fulfill their dreams of traveling to Europe, two teenage girls
Yeo-jin and Jae-young start a prostitution business. Yeo-jin handles
the business side, while Jae-young "entertains" the customers. When
Jae-young is accidentally killed during a police raid, Yeo-jin locates
their clients in an act of penance, sleeping with them to return their
money. Yeo-jin's father stumbles onto her secret and takes revenge on
her lovers. At a crossroads, father and daughter embark on a desperate
trip in the hope of gaining absolution and redemption. .
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
 - 3-Iron
Mysterious drifter Tae-suk enters other peoples' lives as easily as he
breaks into their unoccupied homes. Instead of stealing their riches,
he repays his hosts' unknowing hospitality by fixing broken items,
cleaning up, even doing their laundry. But when he sneaks into a
sprawling mansion, he discovers a beautiful, lonely wife named Sun-hwa,
trapped in a loveless marriage. Without saying a word, the pair begin
an erotic game of cat-and-mouse, until her abusive husband returns
home, unleashing a shocking burst of violence. Tae-suk defends Sun-hwa
with the aid of her husband's golf club. The lovers run away together
finding domestic bliss inhabiting strangers' homes. Later, when Tae-suk
is framed for a murder, even prison walls can't keep them apart for
good.
Directed by Kim Ki-Duk
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