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The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.

Olimpia Lagos hides her past as a popular singer, whose development was interrupted by her husband's ban. Her grandson decides to go after that trail.

A wealthy man comes to Buenos Aires to avenge the death of his young brother. He starts a relation with a suggestive blonde singer from a nightclub run by a mafia boss. One of the musical numbers is made by Michelle, a well-known American transvestite and is the first appearance of a transvestite in an Argentine film, something daring for the time.

A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.

Three prosperous women -- including a mother and her daughter -- fall for a seductive man in Colombia's Coffee Triangle.