Movies: Plantation

Competition among fruit growers takes a nasty turn when the main buyer offers unrealistically low prices for their crops....

Rhonda Fleming shines as Pamela, an American film star who falls in love with coffee grower Claudio (Rossano Brazzi) while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, Pamela finds herself entwined in a clash of cultures in this rarely seen romantic ...

1937 short film nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel....

Why is the price of a banana from Central America only a third of that of an apple from Michigan? This documentary attempts to answer that question by examining the supply chain between Central America and the US, and uncovering the violence that has...

The short horror film explores the psyche of a Black man who attends a white friend's Southern plantation wedding, and becomes haunted by its history....

Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does ...

After 20 years abroad, a Venezuelan woman finds her family's plantation occupied by ex-workers. In her quest for justice in a lawless environment, she unleashes her brutal side....

The famous fairy tale of Cinderella is adapted to our times, considering as background the present situation of Puerto Rican coffee growers. The story is set in Lares, Puerto Rico, at a time close to Christmas. Miosotis’s father has died and Ava Rice...

Taro planter Lui's grief for his dead wife has infected his whole life. A chance meeting with a stranger, a widow bound in anger to the grave of her husband now drowning in their cyclone devastated village, inspires Lui to reach out to her. This rele...

A love story set against the backdrop of a coconut plantation...

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era....

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of Grenada, profiting for years from the sale of sugar harvested from five different sugar cane plantations. W...