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Treasure Island (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, pirate, ship, treasure, treasure island, treasure hunter, historical event, piracy, sea, captain, hunter, courage ...
Time: 18th century, year 1972
Place: fictional island, caribbean
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The Harder They Come (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a ...
Style: cult classic, road movie, tense, exciting, rough ...
Plot: reggae, music, blaxploitation, marijuana, poverty, culture clash, folk hero, crime gone awry, visceral, music business, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: jamaica, west indies, caribbean, africa
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Call of the Blonde Goddess (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack's sister. Susan begins to have nightmares about voodoo ceremonies and murder.
Style: erotic, sensual, twisted, perverse, naughty ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, murder, nymphomaniac, sleaze, nightmare, male full rear nudity, femme fatale, male nudity, blood, coitus, female masturbation, bisexual girl ...
Place: haiti, caribbean
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Never Say Never Again (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 one more time to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, cult classic, saga, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, spy, 007, espionage, car chase, terrorism, secret agent, agent, assassin, tough girl, secret service, underwater ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: caribbean, bahamas, french riviera, monte carlo, england ...
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Moon Over Parador (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills ...
Style: political, clever, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: politics, revolution, farce, fictitious country, impersonation, dictator, fictional country, moon, doppelganger, cia agent, carnival, deception ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south america, latin america, caribbean, paraguay, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style: surreal, scary, creepy, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: voodoo, supernatural, zombie, hallucination, superstition, surrealism, black magic, buried alive, religion, anthropologist, gory, occult ...
Time: 80s, year 1978, year 1985, 70s
Place: haiti, caribbean, boston
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The Old Man and the Sea (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot: sea, killer animal, animal, creature, water, nature, elderly, fish, fisherman, obsessive quest, survival, lone wolves ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
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 8.2
 1.1M
Jurassic Park (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: suspense, epic, breathtaking, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night, date night, teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, island, survival, creature feature, animal attack, scientist, disaster, research, children, experiment, dangerous animal, child in peril ...
Time: jurassic, 20th century, year 1993, prehistoric times, 90s
Place: fictional island, montana, caribbean, central america, costa rica ...
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Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and placed it in a safe deposit box in the Caribbean. Now, the boys ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, chase, beach, female nudity, living dead, love, witch, sex, embezzlement, corpse, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean, new york
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 6.9
 2K
Guantanamera (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a ...
Style: road movie, manga, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: dark humor, on the road, love, feminist, philosophy, reflection, communism, satire, couples, friends, family relations, obsessive quest ...
Time: 90s
Place: cuba, caribbean, latin america
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete ...
Style: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: pirate, treasure hunt, swashbuckler, island, ship, female protagonist, pirate ship, sword fight, treasure, adventurer, treasure map, heroine ...
Time: 17th century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ...
Style: suspense, scenic, suspenseful, saga, exciting ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, giant monster, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, dangerous animal, jurassic park, survival, animal, lost world, monster, predator ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 1997, prehistoric times, 20th century
Place: fictional island, costa rica, caribbean, california, san diego california ...
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Jurassic Park III (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, predictable, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: dinosaur, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, monster, fantasy world, survival, lost world, genetics, dangerous animal, heroes ...
Time: year 2001, jurassic, 2000s, prehistoric times, 90s ...
Place: costa rica, fictional island, caribbean
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The Mystery Gang reunite and visit Moonscar Island, a remote island with a dark secret. Daphne wants more than just a villain in a costume, and they get more than they ever expected.
Style: semi serious, humorous, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: scooby doo, zombie, good versus evil, ghost, chase, pirate, friends, goofy hero, escapades, island, disorder, rescue ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, caribbean, louisiana
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 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
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Treasure Island (1987)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Plot: pirate, bird, piracy, treasure, parrot, mutiny, murder
Place: caribbean, fictional island
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No Place Like Home (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Jamaica, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Susan, a film producer from NYC, goes to Jamaica to shoot a shampoo commercial, she finds herself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, drifting further and further away from the world she knows and into the life of the island, a ...
Style: captivating, road movie
Plot: lifestyle, relationships, island, male female relationship, life, jamaican, reggae, rastafarian, ocean, beach resort, cannabis, waterfall ...
Place: caribbean, jamaica, new york
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 7.1
 48K
Che: Part One (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Style: political, intense, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: revolution, cuban revolution, dictatorship, communism, violence, military, biopic, freedom, idealism, rebel, civil war, cold war ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 2008, 60s ...
Place: cuba, latin america, caribbean, mexico city, new york
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Better Mus Come (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their political agenda. It is a fictionalized dramatization of real historical events, specifically, the Green ...
Style: independent film, underground film, period drama
Plot: jamaican, african american, reggae, blaxploitation, shootout, murder, revenge, politics, arms dealer, police raid, political rally, organized crime ...
Time: 70s
Place: jamaica, africa, caribbean
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Treasure Island (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: treasure hunt, pirate, expedition, treasure map, island, ship, treasure, adventurer, heroes, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time: 18th century
Place: england, fictional island, caribbean
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Murder in Pacot (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Haiti, France, Norway
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: social differences, life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, family problems, hopes, starting over, danger, domestic disturbance, chaos, society, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: haiti, africa, caribbean
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 7.0
 8K
Chocolat (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The history of the clown Chocolate, the first black circus artist in France, which has a great success in the late 19th century.
Style: thought provoking, factual, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: circus, racism, gambling, clown, black man, illegal immigrant, coworker relationship, rise to the top, comedy duo, fame, black, escapades ...
Time: 1910s, 1890s, year 2016, year 2015, 19th century ...
Place: paris france, france, cuba, caribbean
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 7.1
 6K
Burn! (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: revolution, racism, slavery, politics, island, bank, betrayal, assassination, political unrest, injustice, political corruption, heist ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1840s, victorian era, 1850s
Place: caribbean, england, europe, fictional island, london ...
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Assault on Devil's Island (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo, the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
Style: sexy, cliffhanger, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female warrior, woman fights a man, dominant woman, hostage, wrestler, wrestling, island, kidnapping, danger, betrayal, race against time, woman hits a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: caribbean, washington d.c., seattle, miami, france
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Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Style: horror comedy, suspense, spoof, tech noir, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, secret agent, underwater, creature feature, deadly creature, murder, chess, spy spoof, boat, water monster, 666, killer animal ...
Time: year 1961
Place: cuba, caribbean, latin america, west indies
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The Man on the Shore (1993)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Canada, Haiti, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Early 1960s Haiti during Duvallier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family heavily suffered.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: dictator, dictatorship, child, blaxploitation, native, family relations, oppression, siblings relations, on the run, state affairs, life is a bitch, rebellion ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: haiti, africa, caribbean
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The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, slasher, classic horror, suspense ...
Plot: folk horror, monster, occult, supernatural, living dead, zombie, zombie attack, undead, cemetery, macabre, apocalypse, pagan ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: cornwall, haiti, caribbean, england, europe
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The Delta Factor (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, prison, island, kidnapping, rescue, special agent, injustice, righting the wronged, captivity, wrongfully committed, heist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: caribbean
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Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 72 min.
Story: The Octonauts embark on an underwater adventure, navigating a set of challenging caves to help a small octopus friend return to the Caribbean Sea.
Style: educational, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: sea adventure, octopus, rescue, caribbean sea, sea creature, friends, animal, group of friends, underwater city, teamwork, friendship, animal life ...
Place: caribbean
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 5.5
 489
Catacombe (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Pro soccer player Jermaine Slagter is entering his last days at his club. Outside of the field his life is falling apart.
Plot: gambling, football, soccer, mobster, violence, daughter, divorce, homeless, aging, extortion, poverty, debt ...
Place: caribbean, china
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