# The best Cuban films of all time

From 1960s ICAIC cinema to Juan of the Dead: the best of Cuban film according to Panamerican World, Todo Cuba and Hypermedia Magazine.

- 19 votes · 13 items
- Jun 20, 2025 · Yuliana Blanco González
- https://even.best/en/l/4145/the-best-cuban-films-of-all-time

## Top 10

1. **Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A bourgeois man who stays in Havana after the revolution, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
2. **Guantanamera (1995)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Transporting a body from one end of the island to the other.
3. **Lucía (1968)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Three women named Lucía in three eras of Cuba, by Humberto Solás.
4. **Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A friendship between a young communist and a gay artist; Oscar-nominated.
5. **I Am Cuba (1964)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mikhail Kalatozov's Cuban-Soviet co-production.
6. **La bella del Alhambra (1989)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A cabaret singer in 1920s Havana.
7. **Suite Habana (2003)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A day in the life of ten Havana residents, without dialogue.
8. **Vampires in Havana (1985)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Juan Padrón's animation: vampires and gangsters in the 1930s.
9. **Papeles secundarios (1989)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — An actress in crisis at a Havana theatre.
10. **Behavior (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A troubled boy and his teacher in Havana.
11. **Juan of the Dead (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A zombie invasion of Havana, played for laughs.
12. **Habanastation (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two boys from different backgrounds on a May Day.
13. **Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — A satire of bureaucracy, by Titón.

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