To movie aficionados, Miami can be a frustrating city.

Until recently — except for the Lincoln Road multiplex, the showings at the University of Miami’s Bill Cosford Cinema and trips to Miami Beach Cinematheque — the movie listings left much to be desired.

They were overloaded with Hollywood premieres but lacking in offerings from Europe or interesting retrospectives like those that can be enjoyed in New York City.

Now the Tower Theater, next to Domino Park on colorful Calle Ocho, has become a sort of oasis that quenches the thirst of cinephiles looking for a refuge that will save them from the mall megaplexes and the viewing tastes of adolescent hordes.

The Tower could go unnoticed, its Art Deco architecture overshadowed by the clinking of the tiles in Domino Park and the salsa music that flows from the nearby stores.

Amid tropical esthetics with an abundance of murals showing palm trees and peasant huts, rises the charming tower of this building, erected in 1926 to show silent movies. for more click here