Herbie, the love bug, embarks on a wild journey through Latin America, encountering various obstacles and forming unlikely friendships along the way.
Bananas!* is a documentary that exposes the corporate greed and environmental issues surrounding the banana production industry. It highlights the trials and tribulations of workers, the effects of toxic pesticides, and the legal battles faced by those seeking justice. The film focuses on a landmark lawsuit against a transnational corporation and sheds light on the exploitation of workers and the devastating impact on their health and the environment.
The Dragon, the lord of the sea, fell seriously ill. The court doctor Jellyfish, prescribed him a liver of Monkey. So they had to look for someone who could leave the sea and go to the land. They chose a Turtle. The Turtle brings the Monkey to the Dragon on the pretext that there are growing peeled bananas there. However, the Monkey, having learned from the Dolphin the plans of the Turtle, deceives her and forces to return to the island.
In this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.
Four friends spend a final summer together tangled in a web of sexual obsession, alienation and magic.
The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
Vinod (Master Raghu) and Anitha (Devi) are classmates in school and have their own private problems. Vinod's stepmother wants to seduce him, and Anitha is an illegitimate child that her mother never wanted. On a rainy day they take shelter in a train wagon, which starts moving before they could get out and stops next in a forest area a long way away from home. There, they find a couple of recluses - a widow and an ex-army officer - living their own lives and willing to accept them. As they were in early puberty they live like normal children. But as puberty stage starts, both experiences lust over each other. The widow accepts them as foster children and perform their marriage, but fate intervenes as an incurable disease for Anitha.
This documentary is about 12 French teenagers (ages 10 to 15) who sail a large sailing ship (with the help of two or three adults), following the same course Columbus followed from Spain to the Yucatan Peninsula, with stops at various Caribbean islands.
The 4-minute music video stars Yaeji and her dog Jiji (dressed in a cafe maid cosplay) as they ride an electric scooter around Brooklyn, dodging banana skins and further obstacles in a Mario Kart-style race.
An incredibly bright, but socially awkward teenage girl decides to take her virginity into her own hands.
Paul Parrott plays an obsessive-compulsive bill poster in this thoroughly average Hal Roach comedy from 1923. Hired to help publicize a new Gloria Snootful picture, Paul goes bonkers with glue and paper and ends up attaching promotional material to any surface within his reach, including the rear ends of a number of people, though his attempt to nail a poster to a glass window is somewhat less successful.
Banana Land: Blood, Bullets & Poison is a documentary that exposes the devastating effects of the global banana industry. It delves into the issues of pesticide use, monoculture, labor exploitation, and the link between banana plantations and sterility and birth defects.
um... er.. it's about... bananas i guess.
We begin this short visit to Guatemala at the port town of Livingstone, then journey up the Rio Dulce. We stop to watch men tap the trees, harvest the sap, and load the product onto small planes. At a local market, we see indigenous life much as it's been for hundreds of years. Then it's back to the coast, to the prosperous Isla de Flores, a trading island.
A propaganda short commissioned by the United Fruit Company on the benefits they bring to Central America, such as creating jobs and delivering educational opportunities, which is something the Soviet Union could never understand.
Newlyweds Bret (Tom Brown) and Margie (Nan Grey) both aspire to show-biz careers: he wants to be a songwriter, while she is desirous of becoming a radio scripter. Inevitably, Bret and Margie quarrel and break up, only to be reunited by their efforts to snag "banana king" Gomez (Mischa Auer) for a lucrative radio contract. The old 1920s tune "Margie" is heard throughout the proceedings, frequently fitted out with ludicrous new lyrics ("Bananas! We're Always Thikin' of Bananas!" etc.) by a zany songwriting team (Eddie Quillan and Wally Vernon).
Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison is a gripping documentary that delves into the exploitation, violence, and corruption that underlie the global banana industry. It exposes the atrocities committed by paramilitary organizations, the complicity of the CIA, and the devastating effects on human rights and the environment.
Within a banana plantation and a botanic garden, a panel of botanic experts are challenged to discuss contemporary trends in gardening, scientific classification, and monocultural crops by an astute interviewer. The hidden politics of the experts’ positions are uncomfortably exposed and confronted with reality, as they render themselves suspicious of their own language.