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Flag of HaitiMovies: Best Movies from Haiti

Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is 27,750 km2 (10,714 sq mi), the third largest country in the Caribbean, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous Caribbean country. The capital is Port-au-Prince. The island was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. The first Europeans arrived in December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. Columbus founded the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on what is now the northeastern coast of Haiti. The island was claimed by Spain, forming part of the Spanish Empire until the early 17th century. Competing claims and settlements led to the west of the island being ceded to France in 1697, which was subsequently named Saint-Domingue. French colonists established sugarcane plantations, worked by enslaved persons brought from Africa, which made the colony one of the world's richest. In the midst of the French Revolution, enslaved persons, maroons, and free people of color launched the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), led by a former slave and general of... ()
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Trapped: Haitian Nights(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 21min | Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When Nadine Lazard (Kenya Moore), wife of Richard Lazard (Rudulph Moise), comes up missing, the focus immediately turns on her husband, a prominent Haitian doctor. The plot thickens when Violet Martin (vivica A. Fox), a beautiful detective assigned to the case, is led to believe that Nadine was the victim of a powerful Haitian Voodoo priest (Obba Babatunde). But nothing is as it seems in this complex psychological thriller that delves into the dark world of Voodoo, deception, and the fragility of the mind. Clifton Powell, Miguel Nunez Jr., and Jean Claude LaMarre costar.

Directed by Jean-Claude La Marre - With Vivica A. Fox, Kenya Moore, Miguel A. Núñez, Obba Babatundé

Lumumba(2000)

1h 55min | Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgian overlords. Lumumba emerges here as the heroic sacrificial lamb dubiously portrayed by the international media and led to slaughter by commercial and political interests in Belgium, the United States, the international community, and Lumumba's own administration; a true story of political intrigue and murder where political entities, captains of commerce, and the military dovetail in their quest for economic and political hegemony.

Directed by Raoul Peck - With Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, André Debaar, Bouli Lanners, Cheik Doukouré, Dieudonné Kabongo, ...
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Murder in Pacot(2014)

2h 10min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

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 girlfriend.

Directed by Raoul Peck - With Alex Descas, Ayọ, Thibault Vinçon, Zinedine Soualem

It's Not About Love(1998)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Raoul Peck directed this French-German-Haitian drama set in Manhattan where medical examiner Chase Dellal (Geno Lechner) isn't happy with the diminishing aspects of her life: Not only does she face political pressures to soft-pedal her testimony, her marriage to a judge (Bob Meyer) is collapsing. Suddenly, new options appear after deposed Haitian politician Dimitri (Jean-Michel Martial) re-enters her life. Playwright Israel Horowitz has a role in this film as morgue cop Timothy.

Hope for Haiti Now(2010)

2h
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Telethon concert in support of relief organizations dedicated to assisting victims of the earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010.

Directed by Joel Gallen - With George Clooney

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti(1985)

52min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

This 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 “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.

Directed by Maya Deren

Cristo Rey(2014)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet 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.

Directed by Leticia Tonos - With Akari Endo, Frank Perozo

Fatal Assistance(2013)

1h 40min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.

The Man by the Shore(1993)

1h 46min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Directed by Raoul Peck - With Toto Bissainthe, Jean-Michel Martial, Mireille Metellus, Albert Delpy, Patrick Rameau, François Latour, ...

Eat, for This Is My Body(2007)

1h 45min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Haiti, 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 – 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.

Directed by Michelange Quay - With Catherine Samie, Sylvie Testud

Papa Machete(2014)

10min | Action, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Papa Machete is an intimate account of 'Professor' Alfred Avril, one of the world's only known masters of the esoteric martial art of Haitian machete fencing, known in Creole as 'Tire Machet'. The film documents a proud, but aging man's devotion to his heritage and his desire to continue tradition.

Freda(2021)

1h 33min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Freda lives with her mother, sister and little brother in a popular neighbourhood of Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life pushes them to do everything they can to escape their situation in the hope of finding a better life.

Directed by Gessica Généus
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Krik? Krak!: Tales of a Nightmare(1988)

1h 22min
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

An unflinching look at daily life in Haiti during and after the rule of Papa Doc Duvalier and his son Baby Doc, this unconventional documentary blends interviews with fiction scenes to expose the country's history of corruption, violence and voodoo. Through the use of historical footage, disturbing images and an interview with Papa Doc himself, the film offers a rare glimpse into the heart of a nation frequently overlooked by rest of the world.

Royal Bonbon(2002)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Charles Najman - With Benji Wang

Cousines(2006)

1h 37min | Drama
4.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Jessica is a young Haitian girl. Newly orphaned in Port-au-Prince, she finds herself at her "cousin" Johanne's. Johanne is a girl without resources who survives on the kindness of her many lovers. Will Jessica be able to resist the temptation to do the same? Will she resist the sincere love of the young Bobby, the sex appeal of the dangerous Ralph or the sexual appetite of the millionaire Félix?

God Willing, Yuli(2015)

1h 10min | Documentary

For Yuli, a Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic for more than 35 years, it has been an ongoing struggle to raise her children with dignity as she deals with her precarious immigration status. In the midst of government regularization, imminent deportation and personal upheaval, the questions arise: What really makes us belong to a place? How are the links between the land and its people made?

Plastic Island(2019)

1h 10min | Documentary

An overview on the problem of waste management in the Dominican Republic, more specifically plastics.

Call for Help(2015)

1h 27min | Drama, Documentary

In the chaos of post earthquake Haiti, members of a guerrilla style relief team resort to 'the ends justify the means' approach to bringing relief. Their temporary sense of control enables them to grapple with the issues that propelled them from the US to this disaster zone. Call for Help explores the tension between pure altruism and a helper's high and the impact of their combination.

Y también Gaelle(2011)

1h 5min

In 2010 an earthquake shooked Haiti, reducing the poorest country in America to rubble. A team of Spanish firefighters, accompanied by the rescue dog Turco became the protagonists of one of the most media rescue: two years old Redjeson, was found alife 48 hours after the earthquake, becoming a symbol of hope. One year after the tragedy, when the world seems to have forgotten about the little island, three Spanish firefighters decide to return to search for Redjeson and try to get their wounds to heal.

Haiti Cherie: Wind of Hope(2010)

1h 47min

Roger, a villager living in a third world country, is haunted by his past, plagued by remorse for horrific acts he committed while being used by politicians to keep the government in power. After several years, Roger remains at large, but endangers the lives of his three daughters and himself, because the villagers have not forgotten him or his deeds.

Directed by Richard J. Arens

Sacred(2016)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Sacred explores cultural and religious ritual as it relates to life’s cycles: birth, adolescence, marriage, aging and other key passages of life.

Kafou(2017)

51min | Drama, Crime, Comedy, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Doc and Zoe are just hired for the night to deliver an unknown package. At a crossroad, they stumble upon a dog. In Haiti, each crossroad requires a sacrifice.

Baseball in the Time of Cholera(2012)

NR
| 28min | Documentary

As a Cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the United Nations denies it is responsible for introducing the disease despite glaring evidence suggesting Nepalese peacekeepers are to blame. Baseball in the Time of Cholera is the story of a young Haitian boy who plays in Haiti's first little league baseball team and the Haitian Lawyer seeking justice against the UN. As the epidemic spreads, the two stories intersect in the struggle for survival and justice.

Inside Out: The People’s Art Project(2013)

1h 15min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A wall can be a barrier. It can be a structure of limitation or a source of repression. For the Inside Out Project, a wall is a canvas, and so are sides of trains, the arches of bridges and the steps leading to Brooklyn brownstones. This fascinating documentary tracks the evolution of the world’s largest participatory art project, the wildly popular Inside Out. From Haiti to Tunisia, South Dakota to the streets of Paris, French artist JR motivates communities to define their most important causes by pasting giant portraits in the street, testing the limits of what they thought possible. The power of paper turns people who feel without voice into unlikely activists by empowering them with their own images.

The Price of Sugar(2007)

1h 30min | Documentary

On 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.

Directed by Bill Haney

Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle(2001)

52min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.

The Crying Conch(2017)

20min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A 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.

Directed by Vincent Toi

Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters(2022)

1h 18min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.

Ouvertures(2019)

2h 20min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ouvertures follows a collective’s process of translating Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole.

Looking for Life(2000)

1h 8min | Documentary

Chercher la Vie ("Looking tor Life") introduces the viewer to two women, Anne-Rose and Rosemène, who each have their own particular way of battling through life. The former makes lunches in a factory yard in Port-au-Prince and sells her meals to the factory workers; the latter is employed in the same factory as a production worker making pullovers and T-shirts. Every day she buys her midday meal on credit from Anne-Rose. Through the connection between these two women the film reveals part of their daily work and the constant battle for survival that they lead together with other women in Haiti.

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