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Stories Set in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is Central America's stable green corner, famous for abolishing its army in 1948 and spending the savings on parks and schools. That peace turned it into Hollywood's favorite jungle: dinosaurs roam here more convincingly than anywhere else on Earth. Jurassic Park made it immortal, and Jurassic World keeps coming back. Open Costa Rica on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Costa Rica on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Costa Rica
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Browse 14 books, 30 movies and 17 games set in Costa Rica.
Jurassic Park
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help…
Jurassic World
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park Jurassic World as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this…
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm his…
What Happened, Miss Simone?
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist told in her own words.
Jurassic Park
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence…
Jurassic Park / The Lost World
From master thriller writer Michael Crichton: Two imaginative masterpieces of speculative science, full of adventure and larger-than-life characters. In Jurassic Park, scientists of today clone dinosaurs of the…
A un paso de mí
Tatiana is a journalist with a routine life in all its aspects and a recently failed love relationship. Motivated by her best friend she decides to make a stop and travel around Costa Rica to find herself and inner…
Keylor Navas, Hombre de Fe
The story of real life Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas from his humble beginnings in his home town to his rise to greatness as an elite soccer player.
Runner Runner
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him a sly offshore entrepreneur.
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