20 movies like I Am Cuba, ordered by similarity : Che: Part One(2008), Critical Thinking(2020), Che!(1969), The Story of Qiu Ju(1992), Our Daily Bread(1934), A Lion Is in the Streets(1953), Che: Part Two(2008), A Romance of Happy Valley(1919), Yellow Earth(1984), Ash Is Purest White(2018), Jean de Florette(1986), Mother India(1957) ...
Drama
1964
141 Minutes
Luz María Collazo Jean Bouise Sergio Corrieri José Gallardo Raul Garcia Salvador Wood Alberto Morgan Fausto Mirabal Roberto García York Maria M. Diez Zilia Rodríguez
girl suitor farmer student peasant intense powerful spirited cuba countryside city underworld revolution politics rise sacrifice 1950s
Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Biography, Drama
France|Spain|Mexico
2008
129 Minutes
Benicio Del Toro Demián Bichir Santiago Cabrera Elvira Mínguez Franka Potente Jorge Perugorría Edgar Ramírez Victor Rasuk Armando Riesco Catalina Sandino Moreno Rodrigo Santoro
revolutionary fidel castro soldier doctor intellectual dictator powerful profound emotional suspenseful cuba mexico jungle city town battlefield che guevara cuban revolution politics guerrilla warfare
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
Drama
USA
1969
96 Minutes
Omar Sharif Jack Palance Cesare Danova Robert Loggia Woody Strode Barbara Luna Frank Silvera Albert Paulsen
fidel castro revolutionary military officer peasant soldier cuban emotional passionate cuba bolivia wilderness government building che guevara cuban missile crisis cuban revolution marxism ambition guerrilla warfare rise fall
Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that ... See full summary »
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1992
100 Minutes
Gong Li Lei Laosheng Liu Peiqi Yang Liuchun Zhu Qanqing Cui Luowen Yang Huiqin Wang Jianfa Lin Zi
peasant pregnant woman villager husband wife bureaucrat moving powerful gutsy spirited china countryside big city city vs. country injustice corruption husband/wife relationship quest underdog sacrifice
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
74 Minutes
Karen Morley Tom Keene Barbara Pepper Addison Richards John Qualen Lloyd Ingram Sidney Bracey Henry Hall Nellie V. Nichols Frank Minor
husband wife farmer carpenter plumber musician uplifting tense spirited apartment farm countryside great depression agriculture commune farming love triangle rise transformation temptation
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread!
Drama
USA
1953
88 Minutes
James Cagney Barbara Hale Anne Francis Warner Anderson John McIntire Jeanne Cagney Lon Chaney Frank McHugh Larry Keating Onslow Stevens James Millican
political candidate southerner schoolteacher lawyer farmer gangster melodramatic gutsy powerful american south rural community farm rise to power political corruption exploitation murder mob violence trial rise rivalry
A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
Biography, Drama
Spain|France|USA
2008
128 Minutes
Benicio Del Toro Demián Bichir Santiago Cabrera Elvira Mínguez Franka Potente Jorge Perugorría Edgar Ramírez Victor Rasuk Armando Riesco Catalina Sandino Moreno Rodrigo Santoro
revolutionary fidel castro soldier friend dictator rebel profound emotional suspenseful tense cuba bolivia training camp jungle river farm political repression guerrilla warfare che guevara politics
In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
Drama
USA
1919
60 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron George Fawcett Kate Bruce George Nichols Bertram Grassby
girlfriend mother father inventor son wealthy man melodramatic kentucky family home big city countryside new york city apartment ambition city vs. country homecoming rags to riches family financial troubles quest
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several... See full summary »
Drama
China
1984
89 Minutes
Xue Bai Wang Xueqi Tan Tuo Quiang Liu
peasant soldier communist girl solemn powerful striking gripping china countryside village poverty cultural revolution arranged marriage freedom folk music discovery escape 1930s
'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
2018
141 Minutes
Zhao Tao Liao Fan Feng Xiaogang Diao Yi-nan Zheng Xu Zhang Yibai
gang leader girlfriend gang members boyfriend ex-girlfriend bleak cool disheartening gripping intense uneasy china sacrifice gangsters relationships china chinese triad fall sacrifice 2010s
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Drama
Switzerland|France|Italy
1986
122 Minutes
Yves Montand Gérard Depardieu Daniel Auteuil Elisabeth Depardieu Ernestine Mazurowna Marcel Champel Armand Meffre Margarita Lozano Andre Dupon Pierre Nougaro Jean Maurel
nephew uncle farmer neighbor aunt spirited emotional melodramatic intense france farm countryside mountain provence, france ambition aspirations farming competition deception daunting task
A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Musical, Drama
India
1957
180 Minutes
Nargis Sunil Dutt Rajendra Kumar Mukri Raaj Kumar Kanhaiya Lal Jilloo Maa
wife husband peasant son money lender village elder melodramatic powerful touching moving india farm village field poverty perseverance injury motherhood death marriage
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|Italy|France
1987
162 Minutes
John Lone Joan Chen Peter O'Toole Ying Ruocheng Victor Wong Dennis Dun Ryuichi Sakamoto Maggie Han Ric Young
emperor servant gardener tutor peasant war criminal engaging hedonistic spectacular powerful china palace prison forbidden city japan political coup revolution royal life exile leadership
The story of the final Emperor of China.
Drama
USA
1958
121 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Jeffrey Hunter James Gleason Dianne Foster Pat O'Brien Basil Rathbone Donald Crisp Edward Brophy John Carradine Willis Bouchey Basil Ruysdael
mayor political consultant politician nephew passionate spirited united states city city hall political campaign political corruption politics showdown aging competition underdog 1950s
Marshal Jake Wade aids outlaw Clint Hollister escape jail but Clint wants to know where Wade hid an old hold-up loot taken while both men were outlaws in the same gang.
Crime, Drama
USA
1993
144 Minutes
Al Pacino Sean Penn Penelope Ann Miller Luis Guzman John Alberto Leguizamo Ingrid Rogers James Rebhorn Joseph Siravo Viggo Mortensen Richard Foronjy Jorge Porcel
ex-convict lawyer friend dancer girlfriend gangster tense gritty emotional new york city nightclub courtroom big city criminal underworld crime shady dealings drugs gangsters murder ex-convicts
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
Drama
India
2013
126 Minutes
young man friend childhood friend neighbor girlfriend sister emotional gripping engaging heartwarming intense powerful india city house cricket match violence friendship chasing dreams community
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Drama, Music
Israel|Germany|USA
2016
96 Minutes
Tamer Nafar Samar Qupty Salwa Nakkara Saeed Dassuki Adeeb Safadi Tarik Kopty Michael Moshonov Ayed Fadel
rapper singer girlfriend police officer intense frenetic gripping fiery club apartment building slum city neighborhood middle east aspirations rap music aimless youth discovery love growing up
Set against a backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian rapper Kareem and his singer girlfriend Manar struggle, love and make music in their crime-ridden ghetto and Tel Aviv's hip-hop club scene.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|UK|South Africa|USA
2006
102 Minutes
Tim Robbins Derek Luke Bonnie Henna Mncedisi Shabangu Tumisho K. Masha Sithembiso Khumalo Terry Pheto Michele Burgers
coach police officer wife son beauty queen suspenseful engaging powerful south africa prison inner city car freedom torture corruption politics revolution racism revenge rise
A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1919
87 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Loyola O'Connor Wilbur Higby Clarine Seymour Kate Bruce Raymond Cannon
farm girl minister student temptress aunt father melodramatic tender passionate touching farm college family home rural community countryside secrets infidelity unrequited love small-town life death
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ... See full summary »
Drama
Argentina|Spain|Italy
2002
104 Minutes
Ricardo Darín Cecilia Roth Héctor Alterio Fernanda Mistral Tomás Fonzi Milton de la Canal Matias del Pozo Mónica Scapparone Evelyn Dominguez Leticia Brédice Nicolas Cantafio
mother father brother son student grandfather emotional tense striking argentina house countryside new identity journey family survival revolution political repression sacrifice growing up
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »