26 Films & TV Shows Set In Haiti
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Zombi Child
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ญ๐น Haiti The 1960s The 2010sHaiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Lรฉgion dโhonneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
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Hegel's Angel (Zanj Hegel la)
๐ญ๐น HaitiA boy in rural Haiti develops an interest in cinema and helps his father acquire a TV set.
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The Crying Conch
๐ญ๐น HaitiA 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.
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My Internship in Canada
Quebec Ontario ๐ญ๐น HaitiGuibord is an independent Member of Parliament who represents Prescott-Makadewร -Rapides-aux Outardes, a vast county in Northern Quebec. As the entire country watches, Guibord unwillingly finds himself in the awkward position of holding the decisive vote to determine whether Canada will go to war. Accompanied by his wife, his daughter and an idealistic intern from Haiti named Sovereign, Guibord travels across his district in order to consult his constituents. While groups of lobbyists get involved in a debate that spins out of control, the MP will have to face his own conscience. 'My Internship in Canada' is a biting political satire in which politicians, citizens and lobbyists go head-to-head tearing democracy to shreds. Film starring Suzanne Clรฉment, Patrick Huard and Mardy Men
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Ego Trip
๐ญ๐น HaitiTalk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with his family. In an effort to regain the love and respect of his audience, Marcโs agent decides to send him, against his will, on a humanitarian mission to Haiti. Nothing can prepare Marc for the journey on which he is about to embark.
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Haiti: Where Did the Money Go
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Quantum of Solace
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ง๐ด Bolivia England ๐ญ๐น Haiti ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000sFor love, for hate, for justice, for revenge. โ Quantum of Solace continues the adventures of James Bond after Casino Royale. Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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The Price of Sugar
๐ญ๐น Haiti ๐ฉ๐ด 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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Eat, for This Is My Body
๐ญ๐น HaitiHaiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them โ a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.
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Miami Vice
Florida ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐จ๐ด Colombia ๐ญ๐น HaitiI'm a Fiend For Mojitos โ A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
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Heading South
๐ญ๐น HaitiA story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
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Night of the Living Dorks
๐ญ๐น Haiti ๐ฉ๐ช GermanyBeing a loser was never this cool โ Three not-so-cool school friends decide to try a old voodoo ritual. Later, they die in a car accident, but live on as zombies. But being a zombie has advantages, too...
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The Agronomist
๐ญ๐น Haiti The 1990sYou Cannot Kill the Truth with a Bullet. โ Documentary on Jean Dominique, Haitian radio personality and human rights activist.
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On the Verge of a Fever
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
๐ญ๐น Haiti ๐ฏ๐ฒ Jamaica The 18th CenturyPrepare to be blown out of the water. โ Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
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Royal Bonbon
๐ญ๐น HaitiA wretched man wanders the streets of Cap-Haitien, dreaming of his imaginary kingdom. โ A wretched man wanders the streets of Cap-Haitien, dreaming of his imaginary kingdom. He thinks he's the King Christophe, the first ruler of the New World, a former slave and liberator of Haiti in 1804. Out of town, "King Chacha," as he is known, took refuge in the imposing ruins of the castle of Sans Souci along with Timothy, a street urchin he took under his wing. Here he reconstructs a junk yard where reigns absurdly.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
๐ญ๐น Haiti Massachusetts The 1980s The 1970sDon't bury me... I'm not dead! โ 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 walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
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Descent Into Hell
๐ญ๐น HaitiThe marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
๐ญ๐น Haiti The 1950s The 1940sThis intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this โfinishedโ version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Derenโs death.
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The Comedians
๐ญ๐น HaitiThey lie, they cheat, they destroyโฆ they even try to love โ American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
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Pirates of Tortuga
๐ญ๐น Haiti The 17th CenturyAfter a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart (Ken Scott) docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan (Robert Stephens), a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.
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The Golden Mistress
๐ญ๐น HaitiAnn Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt. He agrees to let Ann accompany him in search of the treasure after a native he befriended gives him directions and certain voodoo secret charms. They follow an underwater passage to an island where they find a Pagan tribe. They learn that the golden idol is a burial symbol representing the dead and that hundreds of idols are at the bottom of the sacred burial lake.
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Lydia Bailey
๐ญ๐น Haiti The 1800sA young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
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White Zombie
๐ญ๐น HaitiStranger things are happening than you ever dreamed of! โ In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
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