Bitter Sugar (1996)

Summary: Gustavo is a young Havana Communist who believes in the revolution; he hopes for a scholarship to study aeronautical engineering in Prague. But his faith in the new Cuba is tested: his father, a psychiatrist, can make four times a...

Release Date: May 09, 1997

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Leon Ichaso

Writers: Pelayo García

, Leon Ichaso

, Orestes Matacena

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: Azucar Films, Overseas FilmGroup

Countries: Dominican Republic, United States

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 450,060

Massoud, l'Afghan (1998)

Summary: The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A Valley Against an Empire", made in 1981. Fift...

Release Date: December 09, 1998

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Christophe de Ponfilly

Writer: Christophe de Ponfilly

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

Production: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Interscoop, La Sept-Arte, TVO, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 26,747

International: $ 15,725

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Summary: Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in trium...

Release Date: June 04, 1999

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Wim Wenders

, Nick Gold

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Road Movies Filmproduktion, Kintop Pictures, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC), ARTE, Channel Four Films, Wim Wenders Stiftung

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, HBO Max, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection

Countries: Germany, United States, United Kingdom, France, Cuba

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,002,182

International: $ 16,140,369

The Lost City (2005)

Summary: A wealthy Havana club owner and his family are torn apart by the violent sociopolitical upheaval brought about by the transition from the dictatorial regime of Batista to the Marxist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1950s Cuba.

Release Date: June 16, 2006

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Andy Garcia