Gran Coral
by roxen_96 | created - 09 Jun 2019 | updated - 09 Jun 2019 | PublicThe Gran Coral (Grand Coral) is the first prize awarded in the Havana Film Festival (Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana) that is given in recognition to Latin American cinema. The festival is held since 1979.
*Multiple winners marked in Notes.
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1. Coronel Delmiro Gouveia (1978)
90 min | Drama
In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.
Director: Geraldo Sarno | Stars: Rubens de Falco, Sura Berditchevsky, Nildo Parente, Jofre Soares
Votes: 44
1979
2. Maluala (1979)
84 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the late 1800s in Cuba, runaway African slaves hide in mountainous settlements after overpowering their Spanish masters. Discord soon follows: traitors are in their midst, secretly working for the Spanish.
Director: Sergio Giral | Stars: Samuel Claxton, Miguel Navarro, Roberto Blanco, Miguel Gutiérrez
Votes: 39
1979
3. Gaijin, a Brazilian Odyssey (1980)
112 min | Drama
Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.
Director: Tizuka Yamasaki | Stars: Kyoko Tsukamoto, Antônio Fagundes, Jiro Kawarazaki, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
Votes: 187
4. They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
120 min | Drama
Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
Director: Leon Hirszman | Stars: Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Fernanda Montenegro, Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Bete Mendes
Votes: 1,824
5. Time for Revenge (1981)
R | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Two coworkers fake an accident to blackmail the company they work for for a sum of money. However, the plan goes awry and one of them dies. The surviving employee demands a compensation, but the company refuses to pay him.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Haydée Padilla, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont
Votes: 1,316
6. Hasta cierto punto (1983)
68 min | Drama
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 woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Óscar Álvarez, Mirta Ibarra, Omar Valdés, Coralia Veloz
Votes: 137
7. Memórias do Cárcere (1984)
185 min | Drama
Graciliano Ramos' period he spent in prison after being considered a subversive element by the government.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Carlos Vereza, Glória Pires, Nildo Parente, José Dumont
Votes: 510
8. Frida (1983)
108 min | Biography, Drama
The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Leduc | Stars: Ofelia Medina, Juan José Gurrola, Max Kerlow, Claudio Brook
Votes: 535
1985
9. Tangos, the Exile of Gardel (1985)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Musical
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady
Votes: 692
1985
10. Hour of the Star (1985)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens... See full summary »
Director: Suzana Amaral | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman, Fernanda Montenegro
Votes: 1,437
11. A King and His Movie (1986)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of legend of King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Ulises Dumont, Julio Chávez, Villanueva Cosse, Roxana Berco
Votes: 490
12. The South (1988)
R | 127 min | Drama
The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz
Votes: 1,067
13. Last Images of the Shipwreck (1989)
R | 131 min | Drama
Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work.
Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemí Frenkel, Hugo Soto, Pablo Brichta
Votes: 449
14. Hello Hemingway (1990)
90 min | Drama
A young girl's academic asperation conflict with her family's struggle against poverty. Both these aspects are made all the more potent by the clear view they have of Ernest Hemingway's mansion in their home town just outside Havana.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Laura De la Uz, Raúl Paz, Herminia Sánchez, Caridad Hernandez
Votes: 99
15. Jericho (1991)
90 min | Adventure, Drama
At early 16th century a priest joins the Spanish colonizers in order to bring Christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the... See full summary »
Director: Luis Alberto Lamata | Stars: Cosme Cortázar, Francis Rueda, Alexander Milic, Doris Díaz
Votes: 182
16. Forbidden Homework (1992)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A student needs to deliver a short film as a homework, which has to be shot in just one sequence. He writes an erotic scene and invites an older woman to act in his project ¿The problem? ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, Esteban Soberanes, Julián Pastor
Votes: 267
17. Strawberry & Chocolate (1993)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Story of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno
Votes: 6,022 | Gross: $2.08M
18. The Beginning and the End (1993)
188 min | Drama
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Blanca Guerra, Verónica Merchant
Votes: 464
19. Midaq Alley (1995)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir
Votes: 3,364
20. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,082
21. Martín (Hache) (1997)
123 min | Drama
19-year-old Argentina Martin has a nearly fatal drug overdose. After that his mother sends him to Madrid, where his film director father (also called Martin) lives with his new much younger lover Alicia and bisexual actor friend Dante.
Director: Adolfo Aristarain | Stars: Federico Luppi, Juan Diego Botto, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 4,758
22. Life Is to Whistle (1998)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Luis Alberto García, Coralia Veloz, Claudia Rojas, Ana Victoria Pérez
Votes: 706 | Gross: $0.06M
23. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,873
24. Me You Them (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 1,871 | Gross: $0.32M
25. The Swamp (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Votes: 7,876 | Gross: $0.10M
26. 90 Miles (2001)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13-year-old "pioneer" jeering in the streets at the thousands of "Marielitos" leaving the island by boat for... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Zaldívar | Star: Juan Carlos Zaldívar
Votes: 24
27. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,598 | Gross: $7.56M
2002
28. Suddenly (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Young naive girl Marcia learns about her sexuality. Marcia is kidnapped by two punk women, Mao and Veronica Hassan. They take her to a coast which Marcia had never seen before. Eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Lerman | Stars: Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Verónica Hassan, Beatriz Thibaudin
Votes: 892
2002
29. Suite Habana (2003)
80 min | Documentary
Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the simple lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and images accompanied by music.
Director: Fernando Pérez | Stars: Francisquito Cardet, Francisco Cardet, Norma Pérez, Waldo Morales
Votes: 619
30. Whisky (2004)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with ... See full summary »
Directors: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll | Stars: Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, José Pedro Bujaruz
Votes: 6,720
31. Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
100 min | Action, Drama, History
The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
Director: Tristán Bauer | Stars: Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín, Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Votes: 1,948
32. Love for Sale (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
In order to get funds, a young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Hermila Guedes, Maria Menezes, Zezita Matos, João Miguel
Votes: 2,112 | Gross: $0.01M
33. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,841 | Gross: $0.05M
34. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,560
35. The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
94 min | Drama, Music
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón
Votes: 7,350 | Gross: $0.01M
36. A Useful Life (2010)
Unrated | 67 min | Drama
A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
Director: Federico Veiroj | Stars: Felipe Arocena, Gonzalo Delgado, Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril
Votes: 1,033
37. Hell (2010)
NC-17 | 149 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Director: Luis Estrada | Stars: Damián Alcázar, Joaquín Cosio, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo
Votes: 12,107
38. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,223 | Gross: $2.34M
39. Heli (2013)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios
Votes: 5,390
40. Behavior (2014)
108 min | Drama
Aging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
Director: Ernesto Daranas | Stars: Alina Rodríguez, Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gómez, Miriel Cejas
Votes: 1,609
41. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 11,996 | Gross: $0.03M
42. Desierto (2015)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño
Votes: 10,760 | Gross: $1.83M
43. Alanis (2017)
82 min | Drama
A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.
Director: Anahí Berneri | Stars: Sofía Gala Castiglione, Dante Della Paolera, Dana Basso, Silvina Sabater
Votes: 1,352
44. Retablo (2017)
95 min | Drama
Segundo Paucar, wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy.
Director: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio | Stars: Junior Bejar, Amiel Cayo, Magaly Solier, Hermelinda Luján
Votes: 1,947
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