Reynaldo Miravalles

A Cuban version of the famous Soviet novel of the same name. An impoverished businessman, learning of some jewels hidden in one of twelve chairs, schemes to get them, aided by a con man and in competition with a greedy priest.

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... (imdb)

An aristocratic countryside family wakes up to find all of their servants gone and must tend their land and household themselves.

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. (imdb)