Leo Brouwer Movies

  • 1992
    Like Water for Chocolate

    Like Water for Chocolate

    Like Water for Chocolate

    7.31992HD

    Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself...

    Like Water for Chocolate
  • 1968
    Memories of Underdevelopment

    Memories of Underdevelopment

    Memories of Underdevelopment

    7.41968HD

    In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a...

    Memories of Underdevelopment
  • 1966
    Death of a Bureaucrat

    Death of a Bureaucrat

    Death of a Bureaucrat

    7.21966HD

    A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film...

    Death of a Bureaucrat
  • 1976
    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    7.81976HD

    A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.

    The Last Supper
  • 1968
    Lucía

    Lucía

    Lucía

    6.41968HD

    In his award-winning film Lucía, Humberto Solás interpreted the theme of Cuba’s hundred years' struggle in an entirely novel way...

    Lucía
  • 1960
    Stories of the Revolution

    Stories of the Revolution

    Stories of the Revolution

    6.21960HD

    A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.

    Stories of the Revolution
  • 1979
    La viuda de Montiel

    La viuda de Montiel

    La viuda de Montiel

    5.71979HD

    Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered...

    La viuda de Montiel
  • 1982
    Alsino and the Condor

    Alsino and the Condor

    Alsino and the Condor

    5.21982HD

    Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops...

    Alsino and the Condor
  • 1978
    The Recourse to the Method

    The Recourse to the Method

    The Recourse to the Method

    6.11978HD

    Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before...

    The Recourse to the Method
  • 1968
    LBJ

    LBJ

    LBJ

    5.71968HD

    This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed...

    LBJ
  • 1973
    The Man from Maisinicu

    The Man from Maisinicu

    The Man from Maisinicu

    4.81973HD

    1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and...

    The Man from Maisinicu
  • 1969
    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th

    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th

    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th

    6.31969HD

    In December 1967 a Cuban film crew led by Santiago Alvarez, the veteran polemicist, traveled to Hanoi. They shot the footage which constitutes this...

    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
  • 1976
    Cantata de Chile

    Cantata de Chile

    Cantata de Chile

    01976HD

    The story of the Santa María School massacre of miners in 1907.

    Cantata de Chile
  • 1972
    A Cuban Fight Against Demons

    A Cuban Fight Against Demons

    A Cuban Fight Against Demons

    51972HD

    In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

    A Cuban Fight Against Demons
  • 1961
    El joven rebelde

    El joven rebelde

    El joven rebelde

    41961HD

    Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.

    El joven rebelde
  • 1986
    A Time to Die

    A Time to Die

    A Time to Die

    6.61986HD

    A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served...

    A Time to Die
  • 1998
    Mátame mucho

    Mátame mucho

    Mátame mucho

    01998HD

    Mátame mucho
  • 1979
    The Survivors

    The Survivors

    The Survivors

    6.91979HD

    A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to...

    The Survivors
  • 1982
    Melgar, el poeta insurgente

    Melgar, el poeta insurgente

    Melgar, el poeta insurgente

    91982HD

    Melgar, el poeta insurgente
  • 1983
    Up to a Certain Point

    Up to a Certain Point

    Up to a Certain Point

    4.51983HD

    A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban...

    Up to a Certain Point