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The Day Shall Come (2019)

Summary

An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

Director

Christopher Morris

Cast

Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick

Trailer

Locations:

Hotel in Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Macorís Province, Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic

 

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47 Meters Down (2019)

Summary

Four teen girls diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they’ve entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.

Director

Johannes Roberts

Cast

Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Rose Stallone

Trailer

Locations

Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic
(Horizon Water Tank)

 

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Production Services by Lantica Media and Diving Services Dominican Republic

Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019)

Summary

After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of tiger sharks.

Director

Roel Reiné

Cast

Tyler Blackburn, Joshua Close, Virginia Del Sol, Josh Duhamel

Trailer

Locations:

Horizon Water Tank in Pinewood Dominican Republic

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HOLY BEASTS (2019)

Summary

Fading actress Vera V. gathers with the remnants of her 70’s social circle to shoot her last film: an unfinished script left behind by cherished friend J.L. Jorge. The Caribbean production is lavish, the musical numbers grand. But odd forces threaten the shoot. Vera turns to her ghosts for answers.

 

Directors

Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán

Cast

Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Luis Ospina

Trailer

 

Locations:

Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios

 

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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018)

Summary

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.

Director

Barry Jenkins

Cast

KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King

Trailer

Locations:

Santa Bárbara, The Flag Square, Santo Domingo boardwalk, La Isabela Airport and the Colonial City

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PERFECT (2018)

Summary

Garrett, an emotionally-troubled young man, is sent to a clinic, whispering soothing promises of perfection. By planting characteristics directly into his own body, he’s relieved of his dark visions, but pays the price for purity of mind.

Director

Eddie Alcazar

Cast

Garrett Wareing, Courtney Eaton, Tao Okamoto

Trailer

Locations:

Horizon Water Tank in Pinewood Dominican Republic

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xXx: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE (2017)

Summary

Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.

Director

D.J. Caruso

Cast

Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone

Trailer

Locations:

Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic

(Water Tank), The Colonial City in Santo Domingo, Samana province, Baní province, Moca province

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47 METERS DOWN (2017)

Summary

Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.

Director

Johannes Roberts

Cast

Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine

Trailer

Locations:

Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic (Horizon Water Tank)

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WOODPECKERS (2017)

Summary

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic’s Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.

Director

José María Cabral

Cast

Orestes Amador, Ramón Emilio Candelario, Carlota Carretero

Trailer

Locations:

Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic (Horizon Water Tank)

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TRUE MEMOIRS OF AN INTERNATIONAL ASSASSIN (2016)

Summary

After a publisher changes a writer’s debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to non-fiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

Director

Jeff Wadlow

Cast

Kevin James, Kim Coates, Maurice Compte, Zulay Henao

Trailer

Locations:

Colonial City in Santo Domingo,

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FURIOUS 7 (2015)

Summary

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.

Director

James Wan

Cast

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson

Trailer

Locations:

Monte Cristi (beach scenes)

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THE KING OF HAVANA (2015)

Summary

Recently escaped from a reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

Director

Agustí Villaronga

Cast

Maikol David, Yordanka Ariosa, Héctor Medina

Trailer

Locations:

Colonial City in Santo Domingo (street scenes), Centro de los Héroes in Santo Domingo (hospital scenes), San Carlos sector in Santo Domingo (street scenes)

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CABIN FEVER 3: PATIENT ZERO (2014)

Summary

When a group of friends enjoying a bachelor cruise in the Caribbean stumble upon a research facility on a remote island, a deadly virus is unleashed. The group must find a way to survive before the flesh eating virus consumes them all.

Director

Kaare Andrews

Cast

Sean Astin, Currie Graham, Ryan Donowho

Trailer

Locations:

Hotel in Puerto Bahia, Juan Dolio Beach, Underground Night Club in Santo Domingo, Sugar Mill/Factory in San Pedro

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DEVIL’S DUE (2014)

Summary

After a mysterious, lost night on their honeymoon, a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy.

Directors

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

Cast

Allison Miller, Zach Gilford, Sam Anderson, Roger Payano

Trailer

Locations:

Hotel in  Punta Cana and Santo Domingo  (Honeymoon Scenes)

 

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WAY BACK HOME (2013)

Summary

Jeong Yoon is a caring wife and mother and a sensitive woman who finds herself plunged into a legal ordeal thousands of miles from home. After years of planning, she and her husband Jong Bae open an auto body repair shop, only to see everything they’ve worked for stripped away when a loan Jong Bae had guaranteed defaults. Facing financial despondency, the couple gets into a vicious fight about money, sending Jeong Yeon away, leaving only a cryptic note saying she’ll be back in a few days. When she turns up looking nervous at Orly Airport in Paris with over 30 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage, it is the beginning of a globe-spanning nightmare that began with an old friend and a tempting proposition.

Director

Eun-jin Pang

Cast

Do-yeon Jeon, Soo Go, Claudette Lalí

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A DARK TRUTH (2012)

Summary

A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a disaffected corporate shareholder to expose her company’s cover-up of an incident and deaths in an Ecuadorian village.

Director

Damian Lee

Cast

Andy Garcia, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria

Trailer

 

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LOS BANDOLEROS (2009)

Summary

This is a short film which is a prequel to Fast and Furious involving the fugitive ex-convict Dom assembling his crew in the Dominican Republic to plan a hijacking of a road train gasoline tanker truck.

Director

Vin Diesel

Cast

Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang

Trailer

 

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD (2006)

Summary

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man’s life.

Director

Robert De Niro

Cast

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro

Trailer

 

Locations:

Parque Duarte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (scenes in Leopoldville)

 

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MIAMI VICE (2006)

Summary

Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Director

Michael Mann

Cast

Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris

Trailer

Locations:

Santo Domingo (doubling for Port-au-Prince scenes)

 

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LA FIESTA DEL CHIVO (2005)

Summary

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family’s relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

Director

Luis Llosa

Cast

Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman

Locations:

Santo Domingo and La Romana

 

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LOVEWRECKED (2005)

Summary

On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they’re a stone’s throw away from their resort.

Director

Randal Kleiser

Cast

Amanda Bynes, Chris Carmack, Jonathan Bennett, Jamie-Lynn Sigler

 

Trailer

Locations:

Beach Resort in Puerto Plata, Ocean World in Puerto Plata, Beach in Cabrera

 

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DANCE WITH ME (1998)

Summary

Rafael comes to Houston from Cuba to work at John’s dance studio. He meets Ruby, a cute dance instructor there. Chemistry? Will John know he’s Rafael’s dad?

Director

Randa Haines

Cast

Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson

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HAVANA (1990)

Summary

In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.

Director

Sydney Pollack

Cast

Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian

Trailer

Locations:


The National Palace in Santo Domingo, The National Police Palace in Santo Domingo (external shots), Mirador Sur Park in Santo Domingo, Ensanche La Fe, Aerial Base in San Isidro

 

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THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (1988)

Summary

An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.

Director

Wes Craven

Cast

Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield

Trailer

Locations:

Santo Domingo

 

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THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (1988)

Summary

Strangers searching for a young woman’s missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Director

Lucio Fulci

Cast

Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver

Trailer

 

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THE SORCERER (1977)

Summary

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across the dangerous South American jungle.

Director

William Friedkin

Cast

Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

Trailer

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THE GODFATHER II (1972)

Summary

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Cast

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall

Trailer

Locations:

Santo Domingo (doubling for Havana, Cuba.)

 

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TV Series

THE I-LAND (2019)

Summary

When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are and how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover that the world is not as it seems.

Directors

Jonathan Scarfe, Darnell Martin, Neil LaBute

Cast

Natalie Martinez, Kate Bosworth, Ronald Peet

Network 

Netflix Inc.

 

Trailer

Locations:

Beach scenes in Samana Province, Hotel offices in San Pedro Province, Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios (Water Tank and Sound Stages)

 

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Production services by Lantica Media

THE LONG SONG (2019)

Summary

An adaptation of the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.

Directors

Mahalia Belo

Cast

Hayley Atwell, Doña Croll, Ethan Hazzard

Network

British Broadcasting Corporation

 

Trailer

Locations:

San Pedro de Macorís, Altos de Chavón, Peninsula House Samaná.

 

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CAUGHT (2018)

Summary

David Slaney escapes from prison and tries to hook up with his partner for one more drug deal and while being hunted by police. Based on the novel by Lisa Moore.

Directors

T.J. Scott, John Vatcher

Cast

Allan Hawco, Paul Gross, Eric Johnson, Tori Anderson

Network

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

 

Trailer

 

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THE DETOUR
E7S3 – The Water (2018)

Summary

A look back at Robin and Nate’s first vacation together: a trip to the tropics for their first alone-together time since the kids were born. Paradise….or otherwise?

Directors

Brennan Shroff

Cast

Jason Jones, Natalie Zea

Network

Turner Broadcasting System

 

Trailer

Locations:

Horizon Water Tank at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios

 

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TROPICAL COP TALES (2018)

Summary

Two burned-out city cops — Keymarion “Primetime” Weeyums and Demetrius “Meechie” Franks — relocate to a tropical paradise for a relaxing twilight to their careers. It ends up being the most vicious, menacing place on earth, not even slightly relaxing.

Directors

Jim Hosking

Cast

Ted Ferguson, Dominique Witten, Wayne Dehart

Network

Turner Broadcasting System

Clip

 

Locations:

Province of San Pedro de Macorís

 

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