# Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's best films

Cuba's great filmmaker, from The Twelve Chairs to Guantanamera: his films according to FilmAffinity, Casa de América and EcuRed, with Memories of Underdevelopment at the top.

- 69 votes · 12 items
- May 10, 2019 · Camila López
- https://even.best/en/l/3341/tomas-gutierrez-alea-s-best-films

## Top 12

1. **Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — A bourgeois man stays in Havana after the revolution; often called the best Cuban film.
2. **Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — With Juan Carlos Tabío; Silver Bear in Berlin and an Oscar nomination.
3. **Guantanamera (1995)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — A corpse is driven across Cuba; his last film, with Tabío.
4. **The Last Supper (1976)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — A count invites twelve slaves to dinner on Maundy Thursday.
5. **The Survivors (1978)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — An aristocratic family shuts itself away to wait out the revolution.
6. **The Twelve Chairs (1962)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A comedy of greed, from Ilf and Petrov.
7. **Cumbite (1964)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A Haitian peasant returns from Cuba.
8. **Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A black-comedy satire of bureaucracy.
9. **Up to a Certain Point (1983)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A screenwriter researches machismo among dockworkers.
10. **Letters from the Park (1988)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — From García Márquez, set in Matanzas.
11. **Stories of the Revolution (1960)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — His first fiction feature.
12. **A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1971)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A priest and superstition in 17th-century Cuba.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.