Rubén Blades Movies

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

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

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

Documentary Chronicling the making of Artists United Against Apartheid “Sun City”

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,...

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

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...

In the most tragic moment of the pandemic, confined to a terrace in the centre of Barcelona and almost by chance, the musical phenomenon of the Stay...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

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...

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...

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...

This is the touching story of Joseph, who is sold into slavery by his brothers yet later forgives their betrayal by saving them from famine. The...