8 Best Movies Set in or About Jamaica

8 Movies Set in or About Jamaica

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Jamaica.

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   1. No Time to Die

   2021

   Retired and living quietly in Jamaica, James Bond is lured back into action to rescue a kidnapped scientist, a mission that entangles him with a mysterious new threat and ghosts from his past. Daniel Craig's final outing as 007.

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   2. Dr. No

   1962

   Sent to Jamaica to investigate a fellow agent's death, James Bond uncovers a reclusive scientific mastermind plotting to sabotage the American space program from a hidden island lair. The film that launched the 007 franchise.

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   3. Cool Runnings

   1993

   After a sprinter fails to qualify for the Summer Olympics, he and a ragtag group of Jamaicans recruit a disgraced coach and improbably form their tropical island's first Olympic bobsled team. A feel-good comedy loosely based on a true story.

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   4. The Black Swan

   1942

   When the notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica and vows to clear the Caribbean of buccaneers, one of his swashbuckling former comrades is caught between loyalty, love, and the pirate's life. A rousing Technicolor adventure.

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   5. Passionate Summer

   1958

   A British schoolteacher recovering from a bruising divorce takes a post in Jamaica, where the island's beauty and a passionate new romance stir him back to life. A romantic drama of the tropics.

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   6. A Trip to Jamaica

   2016

   A newly engaged Nigerian couple travels to visit relatives in Jamaica, but culture clashes and buried secrets among their hosts threaten to derail the union. A broad Nollywood comedy.

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   7. Wide Sargasso Sea

   2006

   In 19th-century Jamaica, a young Creole heiress is married off to a cold English gentleman, and their doomed union — shadowed by race, money, and encroaching madness — imagines the untold story of the first Mrs. Rochester. Adapted from Jean Rhys.

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   8. Wide Sargasso Sea

   1993

   In post-emancipation Jamaica, a brooding Englishman enters an arranged marriage with a sensual Creole heiress, but suspicion, colonial cruelty, and madness poison their union. A sultry prequel to Jane Eyre from Jean Rhys's novel.