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- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsAileen PringleGrant WithersJudith WoodCaptain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
- DirectorBill HaneyStarsPaul NewmanChristopher HartleyOn the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, most of which ends up in US kitchens. Cutting cane by machete, they work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, frequently without access to decent housing, electricity, clean water, education, healthcare or adequate nutrition. The Price of Sugar follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere's poorest people, challenging the powerful interests profiting from their work. This film raises key questions about where the products we consume originate, at what human cost they are produced and ultimately, where our responsibility lies.
- DirectorJohn L'EcuyerStarsLansana KouroumaUly DarlyMireille MetellusAgainst the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the book "Le goût des jeunes filles" by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsDale RobertsonAnne FrancisCharles KorvinIn 1802, during Haiti's struggle for independence from Napoleonic France, an American lawyer seeks a client's daughter living on the revolution-torn island.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsCharlotte RamplingKaren YoungLouise PortalThree female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.
- DirectorYao RamesarStarsAzure Kamau Alexander NoelParizot DomondLentz DurandThree years after the catastrophic 2010 Haiti earthquake, Marie Thérèse returns to her homeland to meet her husband Paul. Unbeknownst to her, Paul lost his memory after the earthquake and is now in a relationship with another woman.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsJohn AgarRosemarie StackAbner BibermanIn Haiti, two expatriates use a stolen voodoo idol to find a legendary golden treasure.
- DirectorVincent ToiStarsZidor MontalEbby Angel LouisLovena DieudonnéA man is drawn into the footsteps of the historic Haitian slave leader; Mackandal. Following a man trapped in a curse which started centuries ago, this modern fable folds accounts of the past with the resilience of the present.
- DirectorErich WaschneckStarsGustav KnuthGisela UhlenAlbert FlorathA German plantation owner in Latin America falls in love with a woman who has had an illegitimate child with an unscrupulous villain.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJean DominiqueAboudjaRonald ReaganThe true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.
- StarsJimmy Jean-LouisAïssa MaïgaYann EbongéThe historical drama "Toussaint Louverture" is dedicated to the fate of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, as a result of which Haiti became the first independent state in Latin America.
- DirectorRobert D. WebbStarsKen ScottLetícia RománDave KingAn English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is running a strictly piratical venture, stopping any and all vessels including English.
- DirectorMatt DavidsStarsMauril BastienRoodly JulesYella Pierre-LewisA man who lost everything in the Haitian earthquake defends his new friends against gangsters.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDolores Del RíoGene RaymondRaul RoulienA bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
- DirectorBilly RayStarsHayden ChristensenChloë SevignySteve ZahnThe story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
- DirectorAndré De TothPrimo ZeglioStarsSteve ReevesValérie LagrangeIvo GarraniA Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
- DirectorLeticia TonosStarsJames SaintilAkari EndoYasser MichelénSet in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he's hired to protect.
- DirectorGeorge David JihaStarsPasha BrandtMilca VolnyNikkiMixWhen fair-skinned Alain falls for Minoushka, a beautiful and gorgeous black Creole woman, centuries of ancestral and familial decorum manage to creep through. As the romance blossoms, everyone turns against it.
- DirectorYoshinari NishikôriStarsBaudouin Euloge AdogonyKen OgataSayuri OyamadaSachiko Mishima a young Japanese woman get sent to Haiti as a dispatch member for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She thinks she is going to the holiday resort of Tahiti by mistaking Tahiti for Haiti). While in Haiti with the help of a Japanese craftsman she learns paper can be made from bananas. She embarks on a mission to create paper for the Haiti residents to help them.
- DirectorApolline TraoréStarsJimmy Jean-LouisEvelyne Ily JuhenMissa N'DryAfter the brutal massacre of his family in Haiti, Francis Desrances resettles in the Ivory Coast. Years later Francis, his wife Aissey and 12-year-old daughter Haila await the birth of a son, who to Francis' excitement and Haila's irritation is immediately regarded as the worthy heir to the Desrances name. As the birth looms, civil war erupts in Abidjan and amidst the melee Aissey goes missing. Haila courageously steps forward in ways that challenge her father's notion of what constitutes a rightful heir. Cementing her status as a bold voice in contemporary filmmaking, Apolline Traoré's domestic drama escalates into an intense thriller that mounts a passionate challenge to commonly-held gender roles, whilst also highlighting the human cost of civil strife.
- DirectorEmmanuel Buriez
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonElizabeth TaylorAlec GuinnessA cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsGérard DepardieuArmand AssanteSigourney WeaverChristopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
- StarsMotown MauriceEdwin RandolphRoland CherasardA documentary series that charts the Haitian-American experience of Motown Maurice, a future cultural icon, featuring interviews from his past and present.
- DirectorKevin PinaStarsJean-Bertrand AristideRoscoe Lee BrowneHaiti: Harvest of Hope (1994) was originally planned as a documentary about democracy coming to Haiti with the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in December 1990. During the final editing of the original (late September 1991) Haiti was struck by yet another military coup. Editing of the first version came to a halt as Kevin Pina (the filmmaker) returned to Haiti and spent the next three weeks chronicling the brutality and machinations of Haiti's new military leaders and their supporters.