15 Films & TV Shows Set In Dominican Republic
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The Tomorrow War
Florida 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic The 2020s The 2050sThe fight for tomorrow begins today. — The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Michigan New York England 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇷🇺 Russia 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇧🇷 BrazilThere are no more patriots, just rebels and tyrants. — Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
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Furious 7
California England 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sVengeance Hits Home — Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
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Tropic of Blood
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic The 1950sDominican Republic is under the sway of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1930. The Mirabal Sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa, involved in an underground movement against the government, dared to defy the dictator. But this act of bravery and courage leads to tragic consequences.
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Fast & Furious
🇲🇽 Mexico California 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇵🇦 Panama The 2000sNew Model. Original Parts. — When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And the two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.
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La soga
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicA cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
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Los Bandoleros
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicThe film tells the back story about the characters and events leading up to the explosive oil truck heist in Fast & Furious.
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Sugar
New York Iowa 🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicFollows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto), a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty. Playing professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, Miguel finally gets his break at age 19 when he advances to the United States' minor league system; but when his play on the mound falters, he begins to question the single-mindedness of his life's ambition.
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Road to the Big Leagues
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicThrough the eyes of local kids playing with pebbles to the perspective of Dominican major league stars David Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero, this documentary reveals a side of 'America's Game' that few have ever seen before.
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The Price of Sugar
🇭🇹 Haiti 🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicOn 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.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicWomen had their place. Hers was in the revolution. — Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
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Chicken Park
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicA Comedy 65 Million Feathers In The Making — Vladimiro travels to the Dominican Republic with his fighting-chicken when it gets stolen. While searching for his lost chicken he discovers Chicken Park, a zoo full of giant chickens.
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Jurassic Park
🇨🇷 Costa Rica Montana 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic The 1990s The 1980sAn adventure 65 million years in the making. — A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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Cat Chaser
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicPassion. Greed. Murder. Tonight they pay — A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
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The Dictator's Guns
🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicJacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
