Samuel Claxton

Samuel Claxton

Movies for Samuel Claxton...

Los Heraldos Negros
Title: Los Heraldos Negros
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
bee
Ants in the Mouth
Title: Ants in the Mouth
Character: Despanier
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
After languishing in a Barcelona prison for nearly a decade, a busted bank robber attempts to find the girl who made off with the cash in this suspenseful tale of revenge and betrayal starring Adriana Gil and Eduard Fernández. Ex-con Martin Losada is out of prison and on the hunt. When he and his band of anti-Franco bank robbers were busted after a botched heist ten years ago, the only member of their team never caught by police was his long-gone ex-girlfriend Julia. Now, on the eve of the 1958 revolution, the recently released ex-con sets his sights on Havana in a determined bid to find Julia, and stake his claim on his rightful share of the take.
bee
Banderas, the Tyrant
Title: Banderas, the Tyrant
Character: Don Cruz
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
bee
Caravana
Title: Caravana
Released: June 4, 1992
Type: Movie
bee
Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Title: Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing
Character: Nge Ndomo
Released: January 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.
bee
Maluala
Title: Maluala
Released: December 3, 1979
Type: Movie
In 19th century Cuba, runaway African slaves known as 'Cimarrons' hiding in settlements in the eastern mountains. But discord among the Cimarrons is sown by a limited offer of freedom from the Spanish. Maluala is part of a trilogy of films about Cuba's slave uprisings made by Sergio Giral, the best known Afro-Cuban director.
bee
Portrait of Teresa
Title: Portrait of Teresa
Released: October 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Teresa is overwhelmed: with a husband, three young sons, a job as a crew leader in a textile factory, and volunteer commitments as cultural leader of her union. Her husband, Ramón, wants more of her attention; her feelings are mixed, wanting domestic peace, feeling responsibilities to the revolution, and wanting to control her own life beyond doing dirty dishes. They separate; he begins an affair. When he wants a reconciliation, she asks what his response would be if she'd had an affair too. "But men are different," is his reply. He's failed her test, and to hold on to independence and self-respect, she remains uncompromising and hard-edged.
bee
Rancheador
Title: Rancheador
Released: January 2, 1979
Type: Movie
A historical epic, cast in the style of a realistic narrative with symbolic overtones, about runaway slaves and their hunters in the mid-nineteenth century, which weaves an analysis of the factional divisions between coffee and sugar interests, plantation owners and smallholders, around the drama of the Rancheador searching for the mythical rebel slave leader, Mother Manchora.
bee
La tierra y el cielo
Title: La tierra y el cielo
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Pedro, a young black man born into a family of Haitians who emigrated to Cuba, returns to his town and notes the changes that the new times have brought.
bee
The Light on the Gallows
Title: The Light on the Gallows
Released: May 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organize a slave revolt. The envoys are Debuisson, the grandson of a Jamaican rum manufacturer, who knows the island very well, his old friend Sasportas, and the sailor Galloudec. After having established contact with the fragmented rebel groups, they receive the surprising news of Napoleon′s takeover in France. Whereas Debuisson, who by now has gotten used to his role as a rich heir, wants to wait for new instructions from home, his companions are determined to press ahead with the revolt. When a slave kills a British guard, the situation escalates.
bee
The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.