Vladimir Cruz

Vladimir Cruz

Born: July 26, 1965
in Placetas, Cuba
Vladimir Cruz Marrero (born 26 July 1965) is a Cuban actor, screenwriter, playwright, film and theatre director.

He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994).

Movies for Vladimir Cruz...

Oscuros Amores
Title: Oscuros Amores
Character: Ivan
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Ricki travels to Cuba after many years to meet his girlfriend Beatriz, but she has changed a lot; Claudia, in a desperate search for money to buy a house, tries to scam a drug dealer; and Celina, a necrophiliac prepares to spend a weekend with a corpse.. Three dark love stories that, thanks to various unforeseen events, will intertwine until they become the revelation of the plot of a film that at the end of the story illuminates the drug dealer.
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Title: Narcos: Mexico
Character: Juan Matta Ballesteros
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: TV
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
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The Good Demons
Title: The Good Demons
Character: Rubén
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Tito is 23 years old with a mother who loves him and a car that allows him to earn an honest living. His neighbors see him as a formal and educated boy. Nobody knows that behind that façade hides someone with a nihilistic vision of life. And that involves committing terrible acts for which he may have to pay someday. But Tito does not care about the future. There is only the present.
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Winds of Havana
Title: Winds of Havana
Character: Fabricio
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
The killing of a fiery young teacher sets Detective Mario Conde on the trail of a drug kingpin with ties to the high school he once attended.
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The Human Thing
Title: The Human Thing
Character: Justo
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A thief breaks into the home of a famous writer, unknowingly stealing what turns out to be the only manuscript of an upcoming story. In desperate need of money, he submits it to a contest...
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7 Days in Havana
Title: 7 Days in Havana
Character: Angelito (segments "El Yuma" - "La tentación de Cecilia" and "Dulce amargo")
Released: April 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.
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Afinidades
Title: Afinidades
Released: December 2, 2011
Type: Movie
Faced with the emptiness and lack of rational explanation for many of the problems of the contemporary world, it sometimes seems that the only solution is to take refuge in the instincts ... and instincts lead us to sex. At least this is the exit that find the protagonists of this story: sex as a shock to stay alive, the manipulation of others as a way to ward off impotence and reaffirm their personalities torn by loneliness. But the result is ephemeral and the attempt has unforeseen consequences.
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The Reasons of the Heart
Title: The Reasons of the Heart
Character: Nicolás
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
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Horn of Plenty
Title: Horn of Plenty
Character: Alfonso
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
An unclaimed fortune, grown for centuries in a British bank account, becomes a potential windfall for Bernadito Castiñeiras and the residents of the tiny village of Yaragüey, Cuba. To receive his massive inheritance check, Bernadito must prove his lineage to the Castiñeiras nuns who first populated the region. In an isolated and impoverished town where many residents share the same surname, a feud breaks out between the "Castiñeiras" and "Castiñeyras" families.
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Che: Part One
Title: Che: Part One
Character: Ramiro Valdés Menéndez
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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The Bad Girl
Title: The Bad Girl
Character: Chucho
Released: May 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Determined not to simply get married, start a family, and grow old like the rest of the girls in her town, an aspiring Cuban diva sets out to launch a career as a singer.
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The Wooden Box
Title: The Wooden Box
Released: October 27, 2006
Type: Movie
After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
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Title: Aquí no hay quien viva
Character: Néstor
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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Arcibel's Game
Title: Arcibel's Game
Character: Arata
Released: May 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A chess columnist ends in prison when one of his columns is mistakenly seen as a subversive attack. From there he invents a game of war and strategy and a cellmate who escapes uses it initiating a real revolution.
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Viva Sapato!
Title: Viva Sapato!
Character: Carlos
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Zapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Zapato and Dolores' dream.
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De Colores
Title: De Colores
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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The Waiting List
Title: The Waiting List
Character: Emilio
Released: June 2, 2000
Type: Movie
At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio, a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave.
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A Paradise Under the Stars
Title: A Paradise Under the Stars
Character: Sergito
Released: April 20, 2000
Type: Movie
Like her mother before her, beautiful Sissy wants to be a dancer at the Tropicana, Havana's famous cabaret. But her father, Candido, forbids her to do so because of his ongoing grudge against Armando, his former rival and choreographer at the nightclub.
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Little Tropikana
Title: Little Tropikana
Released: September 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Lorenzo, a Cuban policeman specializing in grave robberies is sent to Havana to investigate the death of a Havana-born German national, Hermann (or German in Spanish) found in a famous grave. Lorenzo recounts his findings to the police chief (Major Anancio) as he investigates Dora, an elevator operator and Herrmann's landlady, Aguila and Silvia (who work for Cultural Affairs), Chrissy (a British-born Socialist Internationalist lover), Xiomara (Hermann's mother and a local drag queen as well), a dwarf, and a false Guatemalan who had raped Chrissy during her internationalist "love/sex campaign" in Guatemala. These are the main, but not the only characters, one must absolutely follow to make sense of the plot.
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Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
Title: Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
Character: Carlos
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it won't be easy.
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Strawberry and Chocolate
Title: Strawberry and Chocolate
Character: David
Released: December 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Set in 1979, following a young Communist man's relationship with a gay Catholic writer, exploring tolerance, inclusion, homophobia and challenging its Cuban audience with great humour. Based on the short story by Cuban writer Senel Paz.
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Capablanca
Title: Capablanca
Released: June 11, 1987
Type: Movie
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Una novia para David
Title: Una novia para David
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of students of a high school in Havana in the 60's, where love, politics, and moral contradictions appeared. A shy country boy gets caught between the peer pressure of his buddies and his love for an overweight, strong willed but likable girl.