Banana Leaves
“The series of South American films...shot in Ecuador in 1976, such as Banana Leaves and Lago Agrio Gas Burn, speak to what one critic had earlier described as “an almost pantheistic reverence for [the] phenomenal world.”
“The series of South American films...shot in Ecuador in 1976, such as Banana Leaves and Lago Agrio Gas Burn, speak to what one critic had earlier described as “an almost pantheistic reverence for [the] phenomenal world.”
“The series of South American films...shot in Ecuador in 1976, such as Banana Leaves and Lago Agrio Gas Burn, speak to what one critic had earlier described as “an almost pantheistic reverence for [the] phenomenal world.”
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man finds himself banished to a parallel, tyrannical Earth, where he fights to get back to the woman he loves.
A group of friends facing mid-life crises head to the rainforest with the intention of remaking their favorite movie from their youth, only to find themselves in a fight for their lives against natural disasters, giant snakes and violent criminals.
Three mischievous children embark on a woodland odyssey when their mother sends them on an errand.
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past.
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.