Rubén Blades Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Young couple Carla and Martin are abducted by three men and spend a terrifying night in Caracas as they wait for Carla's father to hand over the...

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer...

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

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

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...

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...