6 Best Movies Set in or About Puerto Rico

6 Movies Set in or About Puerto Rico

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

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   1. Romance in Puerto Rico

   Romance en Puerto Rico · 1962

   On the eve of her wedding to a controlling millionaire, a frustrated bride slips out for a night of dancing with her maid and friends, and the island's music and warmth stir second thoughts. A romantic musical comedy.

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   2. Mr. Moto in Danger Island

   1939

   Detective Mr. Moto travels to Puerto Rico to investigate a flood of contraband diamonds and finds himself dodging thrown daggers and murder in a web of smuggling. A vintage detective mystery.

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   3. Ship Ahoy

   1942

   A dancer with a big band is secretly recruited to carry a prototype weapon to Puerto Rico, believing she is aiding the government — unaware she is being used by enemy agents. A wartime musical comedy with Tommy Dorsey's orchestra.

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   4. La Habanera

   1937

   A young Swedish woman vacationing in the Caribbean impulsively marries a charismatic but domineering landowner, and years later, trapped in a stifling marriage, she yearns for escape as a fever epidemic and an old flame arrive. Douglas Sirk's lush melodrama.

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   5. The Rum Diary

   2011

   Fleeing the conformity of Eisenhower-era America, a hard-drinking journalist takes a job at a struggling San Juan newspaper in the 1960s, tangling with shady developers, a beautiful woman, and his own conscience. Adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's novel.

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   6. Last Woman on Earth

   1960

   While diving off Puerto Rico, a shady businessman, his wife, and his lawyer surface to find that everyone else on earth has mysteriously died, and the three survivors must reckon with love and rivalry in an empty world. A Roger Corman sci-fi drama.