Movies
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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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