Reynaldo Miravalles

Reynaldo Miravalles

Born: January 22, 1923
in Havana, Cuba

Movies for Reynaldo Miravalles...

Esther en alguna parte
Title: Esther en alguna parte
Character: Lino Catalá
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
A widower is surprised to learn that his late wife lead a double life.
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Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996
Title: Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996
Character: Interviewee
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A look at the life and work of Cuban filmmaker Tomas Gutierrez Alea.
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The Galíndez File
Title: The Galíndez File
Character: Don Angelito
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
On March 12, 1956, Basque Nationalist Jesús de Galíndez Suarez disappears from his apartment in New York, never heard from again. He had been working with the FBI and was about to publish a book critical of Dominican strongman, Trujillo. In 1988, a graduate student, Muriel Colber, wants to make Galíndez the subject of her dissertation. She's in Spain doing research; finding little, she goes to Santo Domingo. At every turn, the CIA, in the person of agent Robards, tries to thwart her; and, at each turn, as she considers abandoning the project, someone offers new information, often contradictory. She wants the truth behind the Galíndez mystery; will she find it?
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Love Me and You Will See...
Title: Love Me and You Will See...
Released: March 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Three crooks in Havanna plan the bankrobbery of a lifetime
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Alice in Wondertown
Title: Alice in Wondertown
Released: February 19, 1991
Type: Movie
A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutims, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society.
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Waltz in Old Havana
Title: Waltz in Old Havana
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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De tal Pedro tal astilla
Title: De tal Pedro tal astilla
Character: Pedro Quijano
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
The rivalry between two peasants who compete in raising cattle, fosters a comedy of mistakes when the children of each other fall in love.
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A Time to Die
Title: A Time to Die
Character: Casildo
Released: April 15, 1986
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison, and after 18 years, returns to his village. But in this village, time, in many ways, has stood still. The time served by Juan complied with the court's justice, but not with some villagers. There are some who still seek true justice.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Gösta Eriksson, a hairdresser, buys a car from used-car dealer Bertil Planåker. But Gösta soon discovers that the car is a wreck. Planåker won't give him his money back, in fact he denies ever having seen Gösta. Gösta's brother Rolle is released from prison and promises to help him. They form an investment company, Parabola, and convinces Planåker to invest a lot of money in it. Planåker has a lot of shady business colleagues who also invest their money. Gösta's and Rolle's scam becomes much bigger than they had bargained for.
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Tables Turned
Title: Tables Turned
Character: Felo
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A young couple find out that their parents (her father and his mother) are having a romance. A series of problems arise because the young couple can't accept that relationship.
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Mr. President
Title: Mr. President
Character: Fiscal
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the famous novel, impassioned denunciation of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
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Alsino and the Condor
Title: Alsino and the Condor
Character: Don Nazario, the Birdman
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Alsino, a boy of 10 or 12, lives with his grandmother in a remote area of Nicaragua. He's engulfed in the war between rebels and government troops when a US advisor orders the army to open a staging area by the boy's hamlet. Alsino tries to be a child, climbing trees with a girl, looking through his grandfather's trunk of mementos and trying to fly; he goes to town to sell a saddle, has his first drink and is taken to a brothel. But the war surrounds him. The US advisor takes Alsino on a chopper flight, but he's unimpressed. The soldiers' cruelties awake rebel sympathies in Alsino, and after an army assault backfires, the lad is fully baptized into the conflict.
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La viuda de Montiel
Title: La viuda de Montiel
Released: November 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on a short story of the same name by Gabriel García Marquez. It was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
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The Survivors
Title: The Survivors
Character: Vicente Cuervo
Released: January 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A bourgeois Cuban family of aristocratic origin locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power, waiting for the new regime to be overthrown. As time passes, they regress to older and older systems of policital order, from capitalism to feudalism to "primitive savagery."
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The Recourse to the Method
Title: The Recourse to the Method
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1900s, this film charts the rule of a Latin American dictator as he moves from being a charming despot to a tyrannical ruler before he is finally ousted, only to die in obscurity in Paris. Early in his regime, the resources and agricultural products his country sells command high prices, and he is a reasonably confident, even gentle, ruler who likes to take long vacations with his daughter in Paris. After World War I, with falling prices and a number of coup attempts behind him, his rule becomes quite cruel.
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The Man from Maisinicu
Title: The Man from Maisinicu
Released: January 2, 1973
Type: Movie
1964, in the Escambray mountains: the area is infested with counter- revolutionary bands which are trying to spread terror among the population and re-establish contact with the US, CIA. The murder of a man led to a reprisal to wipe out the bandits.
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A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Title: A Cuban Fight Against Demons
Released: January 2, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
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Desarraigo
Title: Desarraigo
Released: September 20, 1965
Type: Movie
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Preludio 11
Title: Preludio 11
Character: Priest
Released: March 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Daniela – a single mother, whose boyfriend left for the US – believes wholeheartedly in Cuba's revolutionary new order. Meanwhile, in Florida, a plot is afoot. Under the command of an American officer, four Cubans ex-patriots and a Guatemalan land on the Cuban coast to prepare a US invasion of the island. Daniela's superior, the corrupt Cuban officer Palomino, is secretly helping the invaders and the young woman becomes entangled in the intrigue.
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The Twelve Chairs
Title: The Twelve Chairs
Character: Oscar
Released: December 17, 1962
Type: Movie
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
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El joven rebelde
Title: El joven rebelde
Character: Nuevitas
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.
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Stories of the Revolution
Title: Stories of the Revolution
Released: December 30, 1960
Type: Movie
A film about the Cuban Revolution told from three different perspectives.