Hector Lavoe is one of the most important music icons of Puerto Rico. The film shows us his path to celebrity, all the mixed feelings and unexpected situations.

His passionate relationship with Puchi is also an important part of his life. Unfortunately, it is not enough to keep him away from drugs and drinking.

Release Date: 3 August 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Vincent Laresca

Director: Leon Ichaso

The Queen

The movie ‘The Queen’ present aspects of the life of Queen Elizabeth II.

The film starts with the terrible news of Princess Diana’s death, one of the most loved women in the world.

While the British people grief over the loss of their favorite Princess, Queen Elizabeth II withdraws at the Balmoral Castle, together with her family. She is incapable of understanding the public’s reaction, of grief and despair, caused by Diana’s death.

Tony Blair, the new and popular Prime-Minister, understands the people’s need of safety and support in order to overcome this tragedy.

As the Queen gets more and more distant to the British, Tony Blair finds a way of reuniting the Queen with her people.

Release Date: September 30, 2006

Genre: Biography, Drama

Cast:

Helen Mirren (The Queen)

Michael Sheen (Tony Blair)

James Cromwell (Prince Philip)

Sylvia Syms (HM the Queen Mother)

Director: Stephen Frears

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Rapidly going towards their 40s, former porn movie stars Colton Ford and Blake Harper decide to cease their activity in this industry.

They start paying more attention to the ones they are truly interested in – one wants to become a singer and the other one a male nurse.

‘Naked Fame’ will show us everything they had to go through on their way from being porn stars to singers and nurses.

The director of the film, Chris Long, also has a past in the gay porn industry, but not as an actor. He used to own several night clubs in Washington DC, New York and Miami, and he created an important circuit of gay parties.

Release date: 2005

Genre: Documentary, Biography

Cast: Colton Ford, Blake Harper, Chi Chi La Rue, Pepper Mashay, Bruce Vilanch.

Director: Chris Long

Che

The biographic movie, “Che”, about the Marxist revolutionary leader Che Guevara, who fought along with Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution, will be presented this month in Cuba.

The announcement was made by Ivan Giroud, the director of New Latino-Americano Movies Festival which will take place in Havana.

He also said that the movie will have a special presentation and will not compete for any of the awards at the event.

In July this year, Alfredo Guevara, the president of the Festival, said that the movie won’t be played in Cuba if it contains attacks towards Fidel Castro, the one who lead the country for 49 years and entrusted to his brother, Raul Castro, the function of president of Cuba in February 2008.

This sequel, directed by Steven Soderbergh and with Benicio del Toro as the leading actor, centers on the journey of “Che” to New York, when he made a speech at United Nations headquarters in 1964, being celebrated by the social circles.

Benicio Del Toro won the prize for the best actor, in May 2008, at the Cannes Film Festival, where the “Che” production had the official premiere.

Release Date: 2008

Genre: Biography, Drama

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Director: Steven Soderbergh

La Vie en Rose

From childhood to glory, from victories to sufferings, from Belleville to New York, “La Vie en Rose” presents the unusual life of Edith Piaf.

Along to a highly improbable destiny we discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman.

Full of life, fragile and, in the same time, indestructible she dedicated her life until sacrifice becoming an immortal singer.

“L`oiseau de Paris” was named by the press and public, the famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard).

From the Paris’s pour neighborhoods to the New York’s dazzling lights, the life of the singer was a continuous struggle: to sing, to survive, to love, to live.

Grown in beggary, Edith’s salvation was her magical voice, her passionate romances and friendship that connected her to known names of that time: Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan etc, succeeding as one of the greatest musical figures all over the world.

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sylvie Testud.

Director: Olivier Dahan