Juan Maria Almonte

Acting

Juan Maria Almonte

Acting credits

Bitter Harvest poster
NR

A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.

Bitter Harvest

1992

Lilís poster
NR

The story of 19th-century Dominican dictator, Ulises Heureaux, from the start of his presidency in 1882 until his assassination in 1899.

Lilís

2006

Negocios son negocios poster
9.0

A simple man, silly but good-hearted, is mistaken as the new manager of a big and important bank. His life begins to change and he finds himself surrounded by power, luxury, compliments, beautiful women... and troubles with the police.

Negocios son negocios

2004

The Feast of the Goat poster
5.4

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.

The Feast of the Goat

2006

El Rey de Najayo poster
4.0

The dramatic story of Julian, a Dominican drug lord who despite his confinement in prison, was still able to maintain Dominican society in a state of suspense, for over 13 years. At the early age of 12, he witnessed the death of his father at the hands of local military authorities, during a well-meant attempt to hand-over a package of drugs he had incidentally found at sea while fishing. As a result of this experience, Julian develops a thirst for revenge that leads him to kill all those involved in his father's death. In the process he becomes a major drug lord and a very powerful headman within Dominican society.

El Rey de Najayo

2012

Parsley poster
4.5

In 1937, near the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a young Haitian woman named Marie is expecting her first child with Frank, her doting Dominican husband. After her mother's burial, she is awakened in the middle of the night by distant screams. The immediate execution of all Haitians on Dominican soil has been ordered — the so-called “Cut” — and what seals a victim’s fate is whether or not they can pronounce "perejil" (parsley). Marie takes off to find Frank in the next town over, with nothing but the clothes on her back.

Parsley

2022

La Noche Buena de Encarnación Mendoza poster
NR

A fugitive on the run from the military attempts to visit his family on Christmas Eve.

La Noche Buena de Encarnación Mendoza

2000

Books & Drinks poster
4.8

David travels to Dominican Republic to sell a house he has inherited from the father he never knew. There he will meet Maria, who is going to turn his life upside down.

Books & Drinks

2025

Los amos poster
NR

An adaptation of Juan Bosch's short story "Los amos."

Los amos

1986

Duarte, Traición y Gloria poster
NR

The story of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic, from his struggles for Dominican independence to his exile at Venezuela in the final years of his life.

Duarte, Traición y Gloria

2014

One Way Ticket poster
6.4

A fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.

One Way Ticket

1988

Dos policías en apuros poster
7.1

Two crazy Dominican cops and a disciplined FBI agent join forces to investigate an international criminal network.

Dos policías en apuros

2016

Ladrones a Domicilio poster
NR

Bruno's life starts darkening when he is informed in the university he works that the scholarship programs have been suspended. Daily, he faces the lack of discipline and respect of his students, mainly from Rogelio, the son of a rich family. With the help of his godparent, he takes a second job as the driver of a values transport company.

Ladrones a Domicilio

2008

Sugar Island poster
1.0

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.

Sugar Island

2025

Safari poster
NR

Dakota, a young American, arrives in the Dominican Republic at the dawn of the Trump era with little idea of why he is there, where he is headed, or what might come next. After checking into a beachside hotel, he finds himself in the crossfire of a volatile love triangle between two hotheads and the mysterious and elusive femme fatale Fabiola.

Safari

2024

Babygirl poster
6.2

Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.

Babygirl

2023

4 hombres y un ataud poster
3.8

Four friends decide to bid farewell to their late drinking buddy, taking him in his coffin on a last walk through the homes of their acquaintances. But things get complicated as they have all gotten drunk.

4 hombres y un ataud

1996