In the 1999 film, The Thomas Crown Affair, starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, the titular character owns this home on the Caribbean island of Martinique, where he takes Russo's character, Catherine Banning, and explains to her his plans to run away and go into hiding with his artwork.
It is said that this property has been owned for 5 generations by the same family, which was one of the original settlers of the island in the 1700s.