Rubén Blades Movies

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.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.

INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U.S in 1989 serves as an excuse to explore how a...