Daisy Granados

Daisy Granados
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Actor)
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Memorias del subdesarrollo
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (imdb)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Magical tale of winged man falling to earth, affecting a small Colombian community. Energetic film can exhaust traditional foreign-film fans but aficionados of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work may enjoy. (Reel.com)
Nada
In Havana, a post office branch is more than a place of bureaucratic rules and regulations to ensure effective public services. This is where Carla Perez works. A young dreamer, this government employee transforms boredom into a 'crossroads of feeling in writing'. More than merely sending and receiving letters, she aims to help her companions in finding happiness and love. Such good will can not go un-rewarded. Her exiled parents in Miami entered her name in the yearly U.S. immigration lottery. (Gonz30)
Retrato de Teresa
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. (imdb)
Meteoro
In the early 1960's, a group of people responsible for the construction of the Brasilia-Fortaleza road is abandoned in the middle of nothing by the Brazilian government, after the military coup. (imdb)
Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff
When Concha's son marries Clarita, strange things start to happen. Concha's house is being attacked by a mysterious person throwing eggs in order to scare her. Who is this person and what does he want from superstitious Concha?
Tirano Banderas
In the 1920s, latin american fierce caudillo Santos Banderas faces the rebellion of his own people.
7 Days in Havana
7 Days in Havana is a snapshot of Havana in 2011: a contemporary portrait of this eclectic city, vital and forward-looking, told through a single feature-length movie made of 7 chapters, directed by 7 internationally acclaimed directors. (mubi.com)
La soledad de la jefa de despacho
Upset by the glass ceiling in the workplace and a younger prettier woman moving up the ladder, a woman rants about her situation.
Cecilia
In 1830s Havana, amidst the Cuban independence movement, social climber Cecilia Valdés uses santería to conquer Leonardo Gamboa, the son of a rich colonialist family. (imdb)
Los desafíos
A trilogy of vignettes directed by Claudio Guerín, José Luis Egea, and Víctor Erice. Dean Selmier appears in all three, playing a hippie, an American soldier, and a wanderer. In each episode, he meets an untimely, unsightly end. (mubi)
El elefante y la bicicleta
After two years in jail, El Isleño returns to the island of La Fe, ruled by the dictator Francisco Gavilán. He arrives with a cinematograph and exhibits "Robin Hood" to the people. The next day the bridge that communicates La Fe to the mainland has been destroyed, and the people plan to overthrow Gavilán. (Edgar Soberon-Torchia)
Un hombre de éxito
Javier Argüelles, an opportunistic young man from the Cuban middle class, survives all kinds of political changes in Havana, from 1932 to 1959, while his brother Darío is persecuted and killed because of his leftist ideas. (Edgar Soberon Torchia)
Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam
Adam receives a flashlight with special powers: every liar it shines on flies into the air. Production was canceled in 1965 due to the film's political content. Only in 1989/90 could the director reconstruct the film, where missing sounds and images are replaced with script inserts. (imdb)