Best Dominican movies
A curated collection of popular movies from Dominican Republic.
Aire: Just Breathe (2024)
Aire: Just Breathe (2024)
It’s year 2147, men are sterile due to a virus leaving humankind almost extinct and Tania, a biologist, is trying to inseminate herself to prevent this with the help of an AI system called VIDA. Things take a turn when Azarias, one of the last men and a traveller with a dark past, suddenly appears.
Sanky Panky (2007)
Sanky Panky (2007)
In the Dominican Republic, Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. She is learning a few words in English and dreams of being a Sanky Panky to marry an American tourist to move to the USA with a VISA and have a better life. He calls his friend Giuseppe, who is a hotel manager in Bávaro, and applies for a job entertaining children but hoping to find a wealthy tourist. Genaro meets the beautiful Martha, who has come with her aunts Dorothy and Helen, to forget her fiancée after calling off her wedding. Genaro calls his best friends, Chelo and Carlitos, to go out with the aunts and experience it alone with Martha. Martha only speaks English and Genaro only knows a few words of English, but everything goes as planned until Martha's boyfriend arrives at the resort and complicates everything.
The Tenderness (2023)
The Tenderness (2023)
Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always limited her freedom, so she does not want her two daughters to suffer the same fate. Therefore, when the ship in which they are traveling passes near an apparently deserted island, she invokes a portentous storm.
Woodpeckers (2017)
Woodpeckers (2017)
Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
Verdad o reto (2016)
Verdad o reto (2016)
Aura and Gael's passionate new love is quickly overshadowed by horrible news: Aura is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Gael decides to stay in the relationship and support her, but don Julio, her father, deeply concerned about his daughter's health and blinded by the possibility of losing her, opposes the relationship. Aura now faces her biggest challenge yet: to live her life with death and love knocking on her door.
Perico Ripiao (2003)
Perico Ripiao (2003)
Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a güiro, a tambor and an accordion. During their journey, they meet with a bunch of interesting characters and are forced to use their musical skills to help them get home.
Chanel (2017)
Chanel (2017)
El Salto (2024)
El Salto (2024)
Mañana no te olvides (2017)
Mañana no te olvides (2017)
El heredero (2024)
El heredero (2024)
Cinema Verité (2023)
Cinema Verité (2023)
Heaven & Hell (2022)
Heaven & Hell (2022)
Yuniol (2007)
Yuniol (2007)
"Yuniol" Perez and Alberto "Junior" Rios come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose affection makes up for the absence of his father. Juan and his mother survive in a tough and impoverished Barrio on the outskirts of the capital city. Behind every happy moment lies an ominous sense of despair. Yet the joyful Dominican way of life for those surviving on the margins serves as a testament to people anywhere confronted with poverty and injustice.
El fantasma de mi novia (2018)
El fantasma de mi novia (2018)
Los Leones (2019)
Los Leones (2019)
A couple's life in NYC becomes a whirlwind when Nicole suspects José is cheating on her while receiving the surprise that her father is getting married to a woman half his age.
Sanky Panky 2 (2013)
Sanky Panky 2 (2013)
Genaro is a peculiar employee of the hotel and employee of Giuseppe, who in his spare time plays a foreign conqueror who is organizing the title of Sanky Panky. His girlfriend La Morena strives to formalize their relationship and move Genaro away from that world. Everything was lost of head when arriving at the hotel a strange and powerful Italian family. The chain of entanglements will be further complicated by the return of Martha, the gringa in love with Genaro who returns to the country with a surprise.
Casi fiel (2019)
Casi fiel (2019)
The womanizer Alejandro is forced to rethink his life when his longtime girlfriend becomes pregnant.
Y a Dios que me perdone! (2017)
Y a Dios que me perdone! (2017)
Toribio's wife has been diagnosed with postpartum leukemia. Cornered between the lack of reliable health plans and his low income as a police officer, Toribio takes his gun and goes out to do everything he can to save his wife.
Cinderello (2017)
Cinderello (2017)
Marlon, an insecure and not-so-attractive photographer, is hit with a spell that every night transforms him into Brando, a handsome womanizer. Things will get harder when the spell becomes his biggest obstacle to obtain true love.
Juan Luis Guerra 4.40: Entre Mar y Palmeras (2021)
Juan Luis Guerra 4.40: Entre Mar y Palmeras (2021)
The renowned Dominican composer, musician, producer, and singer Juan Luis Guerra offers a historic concert from the beautiful and lush beaches of Miches, located in the eastern region of the Dominican Republic.
Balaguer: La violencia del poder (2003)
Balaguer: La violencia del poder (2003)
Highlights the most important political and social events in the Dominican Republic during the period from the first of July 1966, the date of the inauguration of Dr. Balaguer as Constitutional President of the Republic, up to August 16, 1974, the day he was sworn in for a third term. Using narrative images and sounds of the era, the documentary highlights the climate of disrespect for the most basic human rights that prevailed during the administrations of Dr. Balaguer, and the violent repression that this President used to unleash against their opponents.
La Soga: Salvation (2022)
La Soga: Salvation (2022)
Years after his final job as a highly sought-after hitman, Luisito has settled down with his girlfriend Lia in a quiet seaside town. Unfortunately, they do not enjoy peace for long as Lia is kidnapped by someone who wants Luisito to use his skills one last time. With Lia's life hanging in the balance, Luisito takes on a crew of dangerous killers, including a particularly mysterious assassin who has long awaited the chance to even the score with her rival, La Soga.
Reinbou (2017)
Reinbou (2017)
Angel Maceta searches for the father he never knew, who fought in the 1965 Dominican civil war.
Bantú Mama (2022)
Bantú Mama (2022)
A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.
By the Sea (2015)
By the Sea (2015)
Searching for his lost father, a boy will have to be strong to survive.
La Gunguna (2015)
La Gunguna (2015)
The story of a small .22 caliber gun ties together several episodes involving a cross-section of characters in the Caribbean underworld.
The Feast of the Goat (2006)
The Feast of the Goat (2006)
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.