Rubén Blades Movies

When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a...

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to...

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior...

Singer-turned-boxer Andy 'Kid' Clave signs a contract with a shady promoter Joaquin Vargas. But Clave turns against Vargas when the promoter's thugs...

"Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the...

Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the...

The illusion and joy of Christmas arrives from the four cardinal points of Latin America. The film recreates a typical Christmas party with Puerto...

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of...

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots from New York's lively streets to Cali, Colombia,...

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer...

Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and Reggaeton. The clave is the five-note two-bar...

The music of the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores which was televised on Dec. 8, 1996.

A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.

An unhappily married cleaning woman in the slums of Rio entices all the money and gifts she can out of an elderly widower.

A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a musical, "The Capeman"....

Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...