Rubén Blades Movies

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

More than a genre, salsa was a cultural movement that arose in a time of need for strengthening the Latino culture and spread across the world with...

Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that...

A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.

Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect...

'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.

Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard...

The life of Puerto Rican revolutionary José Maldonado Román, known as Águila Blanca, on the island in the late 19th century....

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

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

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...

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

An upper middle class white young girl leaves her suburban family in shock when she moves in with her lover, an Afro-Latino trumpeter.

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

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,...

A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to...

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

In the city of gold as they call it, Palenque, Jean, Rose and Machete find themselves immersed in a marginal world trying to survive with the...

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 stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from...