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Martinique ( MAR-tin-EEK, French: [maʁtinik] ; Martinican Creole: Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. A part of the French West Indies (Antilles), Martinique is an overseas department and region and a single territorial collectivity of the French Republic. It is a part of the European Union as an outermost region within the special territories of members of the European Economic Area, and an associate member of the CARICOM, but is not part of the Schengen Area or the European Union Customs Union. The currency in use is the euro. Martinique has a land area of 1,128 km2 (436 sq mi) and a population of 349,925 inhabitants as of January 2024. One of the Windward Islands, it lies directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of Barbados and south of Dominica. Virtually the entire population speaks both French (the sole official language) and Martinican Creole. ()
Languages used in Martinique: French

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Sugar Cane Alley(1983)

1h 43min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in school. José studies hard and succeeds in an exam allowing him to attend school in the capital. With only a partial scholarship, the tuition is very costly. José and his grandmother move to Fort-de-France to make José's studies easier...

Directed by Euzhan Palcy - With Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Eugène Mona, Ti Emile

Battledream Chronicle(2015)

1h 48min | Science Fiction, Animation
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In the future the Empire of Mortemonde has enslaved almost all nations on Earth. Each month everyone is forced to play the virtual reality computer game Battledream. Only those who reach a score of 1000 points are allowed to live one more month. And on top of that you can also really die in the game. Impenetrable firewalls make sure that nobody can cheat or break the codes. Syanna Meridian, a fearless young slave, decides to fight this inhuman system, together with her devoted friend Alytha Mercuri. There’s only one free nation left on the planet, Sablereve, but its leaders prefer to run rather than to fight. It’s up to Syanna to convince them to join her, but to achieve that she has to win one final game against the best players of Mortemonde, Isaac Ravengorn and Alexander Torquemada.

L'exil du roi Behanzin(1996)

1h 26min | Drama, History

Evocation of the ruthless war which opposed from 1890 to 1894 the French colonial army to the young Ahydjere Behanzin, king and living god of Dahomey, who ended in his surrender and his exile.

Nanny: Filminute(2015)

1min | Fantasy, Adventure
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

"Nanny" tells the story of a young and fragile Caribbean girl, who wakes up at night in a dark forest where she makes the most frightening encounter ever..

You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing(2019)

1h 10min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and horticulture. While the French plantation owners on the Caribbean island of Martinique had their gardens laid out, Versailles-style, their enslaved workers continued their tradition of using medicinal wild herbs. Nowadays these herbs represent one of several resources through which the people of Martinique counter the health and ecological ravage caused by the use of pesticides on the banana plantations. Farmers are reclaiming uncultivated lands to grow indigenous vegetables, without any industrial pesticides; they fight boldly for simple biodiversity.

Maybe Another Time(2013)

1min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Marc and Julia just found each other, yet they already have to say good bye...

The Messenger(1975)

52min | Drama, TV Movie

Her first picture, La Messagère (The Messenger, 1975), made by Palcy before she left for Paris, allowed people from Martinique to see themselves for the first time on television as complex characters.

The Middle Passage(2000)

1h 18min | Drama, History
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A realistic look at the horrors of the slave trade, told entirely through the voice of a dead African slave whose spirit haunts the ocean route.

Directed by Guy Deslauriers - With Maka Kotto

Dorlis(2021)

25min | Drama

Nora, a Martiniquan teenager, moves with her mother and younger sister to her grandfather Henri's to take care of him after a recent stroke. This causes traumatic childhood memories to surface for Nora embodied in the fear of an attack by an evil spirit, the Dorlis.

Minuit Quarante(2014)

5min | Horror

It's 12.39 a.m, Dan, a man with no history is asleep next to his wife while something in the dark is staring at them...

Biguine(2004)

1h 30min | Music, Documentary, Drama

Martinique late nineteenth century. Abandoning the plantation where they work, Hermansia and Tiquitaque, a couple of musicians, settled in Saint-Pierre. But they quickly disillusioned: career took off in a little town that is only interested in Western music. Begins for the couple a long drift during which they will learn these new sounds, these new music from elsewhere.