Rubén Blades Movies

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

The story of one of Latin America's most beloved singer-songwriters in a journey across his 50-year career. In an intimate way, the film gives us a...

On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...

Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a...

Anthony Hopkins plays an English medical doctor living with his family in Paraguay and treating the poor people from the surroundings, who has his...

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...

A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to...

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

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...

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

When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of...

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

A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a musical, "The Capeman"....

The film includes highlights of the Banco Popular's music specials, whose production started in 1993.

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.

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

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta...

Concert in Venezuela at the July 1998 under the AMNISTIA festival. Here Ruben forgets a part of the lyrics and the musicians, although they still...