Haiti - Duvalier's dictatorship
Terror, refugees. Papa Doc, Baby Doc.
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- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJennifer ZubarToto BissainthePatrick RameauHaiti during papa Doc's reign: not a fun place!
- DirectorJohn L'EcuyerStarsLansana KouroumaUly DarlyMireille MetellusAgainst the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat sheltered life with his protective mother, Fanfan experiences a bizarrely terrifying incident involving a Tonton-Macoute. As a result, he decides to hide out at his beautiful neighbor's house for the weekend. There, he is trapped between his fear of being caught and the fulfilling of his deepest fantasy. Based on the book "Le goût des jeunes filles" by famous Haitian novelist Dany Laferriere.
- DirectorRaoul PeckStarsPatrick RameauAïlo Auguste-JudithJean-Claude EugeneJoseph, fleeing Haiti under the dictatorship of Baby Doc, goes to New York and becomes obsessed with hunting his torturer down.
- DirectorLaurent CantetStarsCharlotte RamplingKaren YoungLouise PortalThree female tourists have their eyes opened while visiting the poverty-stricken and dangerous world of 1980s Haiti.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonElizabeth TaylorAlec GuinnessA cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsBill PullmanCathy TysonZakes MokaeAn anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
- DirectorAdam DavidsonStarsMichael C. HallJulie BenzJennifer CarpenterDexter is joined by Rita, Debra and Rudy for a weekend away when he learns that his biological father, whom he was told died thirty years ago, has just recently passed away and left him everything he owned, including his house.