Biography
Cidre was born in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 10, she immigrated to the United States with her family, and she later attended the University of Miami. She moved to Los Angeles and began a writing career. Her television film A Killing in a Small Town was nominated for six Emmy Awards in 1990. She later wrote critically acclaimed drama The Mambo Kings. In mid-2000s, Cidre moved to television, creating and producing CBS prime time soap opera Cane (2007) about Cuban-American family. Aired during 20...
Complete Filmography
And Baby Will Fall
2011
Writer
Expectant parents become prime suspects in the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was last seen at their garage sale. Model citizen David Rose run...
Tara Road
2005
Screenplay
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
The Mambo Kings
1992
Writer
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 ...
Fires Within
1991
Writer
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husba...
A Killing in a Small Town
1990
Co-Producer, Teleplay
The gory ax-murder of one suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: se...
In Country
1989
Screenplay
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...
I Saw What You Did
1988
Teleplay
Two teens, Lisa and Kim, are playing games making prank calls on the phone. But when they call Adrian Lancer who has some mental problems, and say "I ...