Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...

Elephant Walk

1954

English

6.3

♡ 4

60%

William Dieterle Director

Abraham Sofaer as Appuhamy

Abner Biberman as Dr. Pereira

Noel Drayton as Planter Atkinson

Norma Varden as Shop Customer

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.

Band of Angels

1957

English

6.5

♡ 2

60%

Raoul Walsh Director

Harry Fleer as Aide

John Roy as Auction Guest

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Lt. Ethan Sears

Jack Williams as Runaway

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

The Littlest Rebel

1935

English

6.7

♡ 4

89%

David Butler Director

John Boles as Capt. Herbert Cary

Willie Best as James Henry

Karen Morley as Mrs. Cary

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Sgt. Dudley

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.

Out of Africa

1985

English

7.1

♡ 36

62%

Sydney Pollack Director

Michael Kitchen as Berkeley

Klaus Maria Brandauer as Bror

Robert Redford as Denys

Meryl Streep as Karen

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

Convicts

1991

English

5.7

♡ 4

35%

Peter Masterson Director

John McConnell as Guard #1

Lukas Haas as Horace Robedaux

Mel Winkler as Jackson

Robert Duvall as Soll Gautier

In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.

Cup of Love

2016

English

5.2

♡ 3

26%

David Jackson Director

Felipe Andrés Echavarría as Agente Policía

David Ojalvo as Gobbs

Constanza Duque as Juanita

Anna Hutchison as Zoe

Zoe Walker is a food scientist who's been sent to Colombia to design a coffee flavor that appeals to millennials. In the village of Salento, Zoe meets Diego Valdez, a local plantation owner who is reluctant to work with her at first, but allows Zoe to use his coffee beans so long as she helps him with the final harvest. As Zoe spends time working the land with Diego, romance begins to brew despite their very different roots.

Green Fire

1954

English

5.9

♡ 5

21%

Andrew Marton Director

John Ericson as Donald Knowland

Martin Garralaga as Gonzales

Lillian Molieri as Mexican Girl

Paul Douglas as Vic Leonard

In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.

Vaazhai

2024

Tamil

7.7

♡ 5

Mari Selvaraj Director

Kalaiyarasan as

Nikhila Vimal as

Dhivya Dhuraisamy as

Jsk Satish Kumar as Vyabari

A twelve-year-old bright schoolboy, Sivanandhan, his mother, sister, and with his friend Sekhar works during his school holidays carrying banana stalks, a task he dreads. As he navigates life's challenges, poverty, friendship, and the challenges of growing up, Sivanandhan’s determination is tested by the harsh realities of life.

Mississippi Mermaid

1969

French

♡ 5

83%

François Truffaut Director

Michel Bouquet as Comolli

Catherine Deneuve as Julie Roussel / Marion Vergano

Martine Ferrière as Landlady

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Louis Mahé

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

Fitzcarraldo

1982

German

7.9

♡ 36

77%

Werner Herzog Director

José Lewgoy as Don Aquilino

Claudia Cardinale as Molly

Peter Berling as Opera Manager

Mick Jagger as Wilbur

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Manderlay

2005

Danish

7.2

♡ 10

50%

Lars von Trier Director

Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace Margaret Mulligan

Willem Dafoe as Grace's Father

John Hurt as Narrator

Jeremy Davies as Niels

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

The Letter

1940

English

7.5

♡ 18

100%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Frieda Inescort as Dorothy Joyce

Victor Sen Yung as Ong Chi Seng

George Ford as Party Guest

William A. Boardway as Trial Spectator

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Dead Birds

2004

English

5.6

♡ 10

60%

Alex Turner Director

Nicki Aycox as Annabelle

Michael Shannon as Clyde

Patrick Fugit as Sam

Henry Thomas as William

Towards the end of the Civil War, a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971

Italian

6.5

♡ 7

45%

Gualtiero Jacopetti Director

Shelley Spurlock as Girl

Susan Hampshire as Self

Gualtiero Jacopetti as Self

Dick Gregory as Self

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

12 Years a Slave

2013

English

♡ 381

95%

90%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Steve McQueen Director

Brad Pitt as Bass

Benedict Cumberbatch as Ford

Robert Roldan as Hotel Receptionist

Paul Dano as Tibeats

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Witchboard

2024

English

5.1

♡ 18

60%

new orleans, louisiana

Chuck Russell Director

Jamie Campbell Bower as Alexander Babtiste

Madison Iseman as Emily

Ralph Prosper as Homicide Detective #1

Charlie Tahan as Richie

From horror master Chuck Russell, a cursed Witchboard awakens dark forces, dragging a young couple into a deadly game of possession, deception, and supernatural terror in New Orleans.

Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers

1987

English

6.9

♡ 15

72%

Adventure

Animation

Comedy

criminal investigation

Ray Patterson Director

William Callaway as Billy Bob Scroggins / Beauregard's Ghost / Ape / Ghost in Attic / Headless Horseman

Arte Johnson as Farquard / Skull Ghost

Ronnie Schell as Freako / Demonstrator Ghost

Don Messick as Scooby-Doo / Scrappy-Doo / Hound

After the death of Shaggy's Uncle Beaureguard, he, Scooby and Scrappy arrive at the late uncle's Southern plantation to collect the inheritance. But as soon as they arrive, they find it is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. With this spook on their tails while they solve riddles in search of the inheritance, they seek help from the Boo Brothers, a trio of ghost-exterminators to help catch this nasty ghoul.

White Zombie

1932

English

6.2

♡ 10

83%

Victor Halperin Director

Frederick Peters as Chauvin - Zombie

Madge Bellamy as Madeline Short Parker

Bela Lugosi as 'Murder' Legendre

Dan Crimmins as Pierre - Witch Doctor

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.

Bananas!*

2009

English

6.9

♡ 4

Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it?

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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

Elephant Walk

Band of Angels

The Littlest Rebel

Out of Africa

Convicts

Cup of Love

Green Fire

Vaazhai

Mississippi Mermaid

Fitzcarraldo

Manderlay

The Letter

Dead Birds

Goodbye Uncle Tom

12 Years a Slave

Witchboard

Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers

White Zombie

Bananas!*