Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's best films
The top 3 according to 69 votes from people: Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) · Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) · Guantanamera (1995). (Updated May 10, 2019.)
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.
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Top 12
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1
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
A bourgeois man stays in Havana after the revolution; often called the best Cuban film.
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2
Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
With Juan Carlos Tabío; Silver Bear in Berlin and an Oscar nomination.
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3
Guantanamera (1995)
A corpse is driven across Cuba; his last film, with Tabío.
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4
The Last Supper (1976)
A count invites twelve slaves to dinner on Maundy Thursday.
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5
The Survivors (1978)
An aristocratic family shuts itself away to wait out the revolution.
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6
The Twelve Chairs (1962)
A comedy of greed, from Ilf and Petrov.
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7
Cumbite (1964)
A Haitian peasant returns from Cuba.
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8
Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
A black-comedy satire of bureaucracy.
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9
Up to a Certain Point (1983)
A screenwriter researches machismo among dockworkers.
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10
Letters from the Park (1988)
From García Márquez, set in Matanzas.
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11
Stories of the Revolution (1960)
His first fiction feature.
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12
A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1971)
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.
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Comments (1)
Memorias del subdesarrollo arriba del todo, como debe ser. Y Guantanamera me sigue haciendo reír cada vez que la veo.