1980 - 1989 film where a monkey wins the car race

Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.

The incidents arising from the escape of a very lively specimen of the monkey tribe from its cage provide a series of scenes calculated to arouse many bursts of hearty laughter, for the animal makes very good use of his freedom, to the terror of every one. Up lamp posts, through windows into bedrooms, now nearly captured, only to slip through the net surrounding him, startling the whole neighborhood. He leads his owner a lively and exciting chase which is comical in the extreme. Finally in a most unusual manner the monkey is captured and taken back to his cage. (Moving Picture World)

A mild political satire about a peculiar friendship between a lonesome monkey and an (impoverished) zoo warden, and about an upside-down world in transition as seen by a chimpanzee.

These criminal "monkeys" go on a heist to retrieve a banana containing the key to a vast fortune. Much like the lives of monkeys in the wild, their endeavour begins with the pursuit of tropical fruit and ends in competition and graphic violence.

To help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.

After his grandma's car is stolen, Prago uncovers a diabolical plot by hyper-intelligent monkeys, who are replacing his classmates at an alarming speed. Inspired the wisdom of a mysterious bum, Prago and his friends must outsmart their simian foes before the evil apes can destroy the city of Chicago, and then, the world. Filmed and edited by high school students with a budget of "one puppet," Monkeys is a non-stop, adrenaline-fueled romp that proves when it comes to action, only apes can deliver the goods.

After watching Fast & Furious 6, Big Monkey sets off on a quest to find his family.

Six unlikely companions must work together to steal a mystical artifact: the Golden Monkey