American South 2
by road-traveled | created - 08 Sep 2015 | updated - 03 Mar 2017 | PublicSouthern setting, may be filmed outside the south. A few set in the time before the American States -Cabeza de Vaca, 1528. Native American south, Cherokee Nation.
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1. The Cherokee Word for Water (2013)
PG | 92 min | Drama
The work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern female Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Directors: Tim Kelly, Charlie Soap | Stars: Kimberly Guerrero, Mo Brings Plenty, Steve Reevis, Darryl Tonemah
Votes: 69
Oklahoma, -Tahlequah.
2. The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (2006 Video)
115 min | History
Documentary on the 1838 Cherokee removal from the southeastern United States, dubbed the "Trail of Tears."
Director: Chip Richie | Stars: Shane Alan Bowers, John Buttram, Robert J. Conley, Rita Coolidge
Votes: 96
Cherokee Nation before 1838. Parts of these states- West Virginia Virginia. Kentucky. Georgia Alabama. South Carolina. Tennessee. North Carolina
3. First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee (2014)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary
In First Language the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians fight to save their native language, a vessel of knowledge and heritage for the Cherokee people. In English and Cherokee.
Directors: Danica Cullinan, Neal Hutcheson
Votes: 14
4. Al Jennings of Oklahoma (1951)
Passed | 79 min | Biography, Western
Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry
Votes: 299
5. The Doe Boy (2001)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
Director: Randy Redroad | Stars: Kevin Anderson, Robert A. Guthrie, Nathaniel Arcand, Jeri Arredondo
Votes: 295
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
6. Oklahoma! (1955)
G | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 14,051
7. An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (2013)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography
The amazing true story of one white Southern woman's courage to choose her convictions and join the Civil Rights Movement. By the time she was 19, Joan Trumpauer was shot at, attacked, and ... See full summary »
Director: Loki Mulholland | Stars: Luvaughn Brown, Dion Diamond, Eric Etheridge, Reginald Green
Votes: 81
Virginia, Tenessee, Mississippi, and more filming locations.
8. Ashpet: An American Cinderella (1990)
Not Rated | 45 min | Drama
A re-telling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II.
Director: Tom Davenport | Stars: Louise Anderson, Kelly Mancini, Mitchell Riggs
Votes: 28
Deep south, early 1940s. Old mansion in the woods.
9.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Barn Burning
(1954)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Peter Cookson, E.G. Marshall, James Reese, Beatrice Straight
10. Horses of Gettysburg (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 116 min | Documentary, History, War
"Horses of Gettysburg" captures the relationship between soldiers and their horses.
Director: Mark Bussler | Star: Ron Maxwell
Votes: 30
11. The Battle of Gettysburg (2008 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: Michael S. Ojeda | Stars: Allen Brenner, Michael L. Colosimo, Guy Gane, Kurt Grauf
Votes: 26
12. Movies of Color: Black Southern Cinema (2002 Video)
55 min | Documentary
Film scholars discuss movies made by and for Blacks in the segregated America of the first half of the 20th century.
Director: Tom Thurman | Stars: Stanley Booth, John Cawelti, Bishetta Merritt, Charles Pace
13. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.
Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón
Votes: 1,200 | Gross: $0.79M
Gulf of Mexico, 1528-1536. Filmed in Mexico: Coauila -Laguna de Mayran, Parras. Durango, -Gomez Palacios, Mapimi. Nayarit, -San Blas.
14. Daniel Boone (1964–1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Western
Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, before, during, and even after the Revolutionary War.
Stars: Fess Parker, Patricia Blair, Darby Hinton, Dal McKennon
Votes: 2,406
1770s. 18th, 19th century. North Carolina. Kentucky River.
15. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig
Votes: 187,414 | Gross: $75.51M
16.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Color of Truth - August 8, 1955
(1989)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the black chauffeur of an elderly southern woman, Sam must overcome prejudice to prevent the death of a black woman.
Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Susan French, Royce D. Applegate
Votes: 804
17. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,692,164 | Gross: $162.81M
18. Feudin' Fools (1952)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding hillbillies and a gang of bank robbers.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Dorothy Ford, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 311
19.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story
(1983)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the life and times of NAACP field secretary and Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers, assassinated in 1963.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Irene Cara, Margaret Avery, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 165
20. From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000)
60 min | Documentary
Independent documentary exploring the little-known story of Jewish refugee scholars teaching at historically black colleges before and during the Second World War.
Directors: Lori Cheatle, Martin D. Toub | Stars: John Hope Franklin, Lucy Sante
Votes: 42
21. A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, George Fawcett, Kate Bruce
Votes: 438
Kentucky
22. Glory (1956)
Approved | 100 min | Drama
Clarabel lives on a Kentucky horse farm and has a special love for the filly Glory. With the help of Chad, Clarabel can prevent Glory's sale and keep her to train her and eventually enter her for the Kentucky Derby.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, John Lupton
Votes: 216
Calumet Farms, Lexington, Kentucky
23. Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama, Family
This movie is the inspiring true-life drama of seventeen-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the ... See full summary »
Director: George Miller | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Chris Sarandon, Chantal Contouri, Chynna Phillips
Votes: 165
Set in West Virginia. Filmed in Jonesborough, Tennessee
24. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry
Votes: 56,730 | Gross: $126.74M
Georgia,- Helen, Atlanta, Cumming, Jonesboro, McDonough, Redan, Riverdale. Florida, -West Palm Beach. California.
25. Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In a Georgia swamp, a young hunter stumbles upon a wanted fugitive and his daughter, and helps them return to civilization.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan
Votes: 426
Georgia,- Okefenokee Swamp Park, Waycross. Florida,- Okefenokee Swamp.
26.
The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
Episode:
The Member of the Wedding
(1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In a small Georgia town, 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams feels unconnected to the world, a fact troubling to her. Her unconventional views for a 12-year-old girl make her an outcast among... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Catherine Ayers, Crahan Denton, Stanley Greene, Claire Griswold
Georgia.
27. Henry Browne, Farmer (1942)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary short film dramatizing the efforts of a black farmer and his family to help the American war effort by increasing production.
Director: Roger Barlow | Star: Canada Lee
Votes: 71
Georgia, 1940s.
28. Age 7 in America (1991 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, Biography
US take on the classic UK documentary series "Up". This first US entry follows a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year-olds. The idea was to make followup films on them every 7 years but the project ended in 2006.
Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Alexis, Ashtyn, Brandon, Douglas
Votes: 90
Georgia, one of many locations.
29. Jasper's Derby (1946)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jasper is attending the Kentucky Derby and befriends an old racehorse. During the race, Jasper plays a violin solo that inspires the horse to win the race. The finale finds the horse enjoying the fruit of his victory - a mint-julep.
Director: Duke Goldstone | Star: Sara Berner
Votes: 46
Kentucky
30. Trouble Behind (1991)
56 min | Documentary
During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in ... See full summary »
Director: Robby Henson
Votes: 21
Kentucky
31. Southern Exposure (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Charley, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they ... See full summary »
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Charley Chase, Constance Bergen, Bob Burns, Jessie Arnold
Votes: 69
Kentucky
32. Jamestown Unearthed (2007 TV Movie)
57 min | History
Take a look at how history is written and reevaluated as new methods of study are introduced. Using the example of Jamestown in 1607, explore the myths and misconceptions of that era: ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Durling | Stars: Lindsay Grand, Davia Grant, Martin Harcourt, James Horn
Votes: 9
33. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)
84 min | Documentary, History
The history of the "Scottsboro Boys," a group of African American men who were victims of a racist miscarriage of justice that became a national controversy.
Directors: Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker | Stars: Frances McDormand, Stanley Tucci, Andre Braugher, Nesbitt Blaisdell
Votes: 364
1930s Alabama
34. Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent, and against ... See full summary »
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Arthur Hill, Ellen Barber, Paul Benjamin, Larry Butts
Votes: 89
1930s Alabama
35. Lifted (2010)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Music, War
13 year old Henry Matthews struggles with life after his reservist father is deployed to Afghanistan. With the help of a local pastor, the boy decides to take part in a local singing contest.
Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Nicki Aycox, Uriah Shelton, Dash Mihok, Thad Mickler
Votes: 1,761
Birmingham, Alabama
36. How the States Got Their Shapes (2011–2012)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Host Brian Unger travels the United States explaining the weird shapes on the map.
Stars: Brian Unger, H.W. Brands, Mark Stein, Seth Stein
Votes: 707
37. The Intruder (1962)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt
Votes: 3,891
Small southern town, early 60s.
38. Mississippi (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Musical
Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him ... See full summary »
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith
Votes: 590
39. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
Votes: 7,206 | Gross: $0.03M
40. Murder in Mississippi (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
Director: Roger Young | Stars: Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder
Votes: 535
Mississippi. Filmed in Georgia,- Atlanta, Griffin
41. The New World (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale
Votes: 89,749 | Gross: $12.71M
42. Nothing But a Man (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Director: Michael Roemer | Stars: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Votes: 1,979 | Gross: $0.02M
43. North and South, Book I (1985)
TV-PG | 94 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two friends, one northern and one southern, struggle to maintain their friendship as events build towards the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, Georg Stanford Brown, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff
Votes: 11,884
Arkansas,-Reader, Camden South Carolina,- Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, The Calhoun Plantation, Charleston. Louisiana,- Greenwood Plantation, St. Francisville. Mississippi,- Stanton Hall, Natchez, Washington.
44. Our Hospitality (1923)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Directors: John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts
Votes: 12,483 | Gross: $1.17M
Appalachian mountains.
45.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Polly
(1989)
Unrated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
An orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Dorian Harewood, Barbara Montgomery
Votes: 610
46.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Private Contentment
(1982)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young soldier goes home to attend his mother's funeral just before being shipped out to serve in World War II.
Director: Vivian Matalon | Stars: Trini Alvarado, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Lee Laks, John McMartin
Votes: 18
47. Ray (I) (2004)
PG-13 | 152 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell
Votes: 157,309 | Gross: $75.33M
Louisiana, -Thibodaux, Laurel Valley, Jefferson Parish, Hammond, Baton Rouge, New Orleans.
48. River Lady (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Western
During the 1850s, crooked lumber syndicate man Beauvais tries to take over the local mill while Sequin, the sensual owner of a gambling riverboat, tries to control the heart of Mississippi lumberjack Dan Corrigan.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Helena Carter
Votes: 236
49. Roots (1977)
TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 18,845
50. Route 66: Return to the Road with Martin Milner (1998 Video)
158 min | Documentary, History
Thirty years after the ending of his famous TV series, Martin Milner once again climbs into a classic red Corvette and drives down Route 66, the "Mother Road", from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Director: John Paget | Star: Martin Milner
Votes: 26
51.
Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode:
Smoke
(1954)
30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Bart Burns, Kenny Delmar, Pat Hingle, E.G. Marshall
52. Song of the South (1946)
G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
Votes: 15,214 | Gross: $63.72M
53. The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue, Florence Eldridge
Votes: 1,836
54. The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Family, Musical
Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her late son. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lloyd Nolan, Claude Jarman Jr., Lewis Stone
Votes: 439
55. Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers
Votes: 2,718
56. Thomas Jefferson (1997– )
180 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A biographical film about The United States' influential and profoundly enigmatic Founding Father.
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Sam Waterston, Michael Potts, Ossie Davis
Votes: 813
57. Voices of North Carolina (2005)
TV-G | 57 min | Documentary
An exploration of cultural and linguistic diversity in North Carolina.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Star: William C. Friday
Votes: 12
58. Wicked Spring (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, War, Western
The story unfolds over a single horrifying night - six soldiers lost in the wicked, burning woods during the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. When the morning sun rises, it exposes an incredible new danger.
Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Brian Merrick, DJ Perry, Terry Jernigan, Aaron Jackson
Votes: 1,041
Virginia, -Fort Pickett, Blackstone. Staunton, Petersburg, Richmond, Lexington. 1864. Battle of the Wilderness. A divided movie, one either loves it or finds it very boring.
59. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 3,620
Deep south piney woods
60. Brother Rat (1938)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Johnnie Davis, Jane Bryan
Votes: 556
61. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 1,340
62. The Cherokee Flash (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Western
Lawyer Butler, wanting Jeff Carson's ranch, has the Sheriff and his gang frame the bank holdup on him. Then they kill a witness that could free Carson and blame the murder on his son Sunset... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Sunset Carson, Linda Stirling, Tom London, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 40
63. Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Western
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie
Votes: 452
64. Dixiana (1930)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 422
65. Little Chenier (2006)
R | 120 min | Drama
Deep in the bayou sits a floating town called Little Chenier. It is here that Beaux and his mentally challenged brother, Pemon, run a bait-and-tackle shop. Pemon is accused of a crime, and Beaux chooses to protect his brother at all costs.
Director: Bethany Ashton Wolf | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Frederick Koehler, Tamara Braun, Jeremy Davidson
Votes: 611 | Gross: $0.09M
66. The Big Chill (1983)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt
Votes: 41,327 | Gross: $56.20M
67. The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
97 min | Drama
Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and... See full summary »
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Richard Egan, Dana Wynter, Cameron Mitchell, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 153
68. Conrack (1974)
PG | 106 min | Drama
The true story of Pat Conroy, a handsome, idealistic Caucasian who is an elementary-school instructor for a group of poor Black children in an isolated school.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews
Votes: 2,290
69. Little Senegal (2000)
97 min | Drama
After many years of having worked as a tour guide at the Senegalese slave museum, Alloune decides to go to America in search of his ancestors. They were taken away from his village 200 years ago and sold as slaves in the New World.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Sotigui Kouyaté, Sharon Hope, Roschdy Zem, Karim Traoré
Votes: 437
70. Radio (2003)
PG | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
Director: Michael Tollin | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger, S. Epatha Merkerson
Votes: 43,960 | Gross: $52.33M
71. Carolina Skeletons (1991 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After a long time in the Army, an African-American soldier returns to his hometown, where, years ago, his brother was executed for the rape and murder of two white girls. The commando ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Melissa Leo, Paul Roebling
Votes: 468
72. The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne
Votes: 8,898 | Gross: $0.32M
73. The Missouri Traveler (1958)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Family, Western
During the early 1900s, a runaway Missouri orphan reaches a town where the townsfolk are enchanted with him and where a wealthy rancher and a local newspaperman compete to give him an education.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Brandon De Wilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford
Votes: 296
74. Lure of the Swamp (1957)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Simon Lute ekes out a modest living chartering his skiff to tourists and guiding them through the labyrinthine bayou. When a mysterious stranger asks him to take them deep into the swamp, ... See full summary »
Director: Hubert Cornfield | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Willard Parker, Joan Vohs, Jack Elam
Votes: 79
75. Olivia Martha Ilse (2015)
14 min | Short, Drama
Set in Depression era Mississippi, the film follows three sisters-- Olivia, Martha and Ilse from childhood to adulthood.
Director: Sophia Kiapos | Stars: James Frain, Tammy Blanchard, James Harkness, Tonea Stewart
76. Memphis the Musical (2011)
Not Rated | 165 min | Musical
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original ... See full summary »
Director: Don Roy King | Stars: James Monroe Iglehart, Todrick Hall, Chad Kimball, Paul McGill
Votes: 284
77. Lulu Belle (1948)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Belle. ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker, Otto Kruger
Votes: 188
78. The Queen Family (2006)
TV-G | 27 min | Documentary, Short
Deep in the recesses of Southern Appalachia, 93 year-old Mary Jane Queen and her eight children carry on cultural and musical traditions that date back hundreds of years to England, Ireland and Scotland.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Mary Jane Queen, J.R. Queen, Dorothy Queen, Albert Queen
Votes: 12
Southern Appalachian, North Carolina.
79. Chrystal (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Twenty years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption.
Director: Ray McKinnon | Stars: Lisa Blount, Billy Bob Thornton, Kamron Ross Stacey, David Rhodes
Votes: 1,685 | Gross: $0.08M
80. Showing Roots (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
Director: Michael Wilson | Stars: Maggie Grace, Adam Brody, Elizabeth McGovern, Cicely Tyson
Votes: 177
81. Forgotten on the Bayou: Rockey's Mission to the White House (2007)
84 min | Documentary
On August 29, 2005, Rockey Vaccarella rode out Hurricane Katrina on his roof by holding on to a rope for 4 hours. Rockey and his family lost everything but he refused to give up. Nearly one... See full summary »
Director: Steven Scaffidi | Stars: George W. Bush, Hurricane Katrina, Richard Remppel, Rockey Vaccarella
Votes: 27
82. The Loving Story (2011)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.
Director: Nancy Buirski | Stars: Jane Alexander, Lindsay Almond Jr., Edward L. Ayers, Leon M. Bazile
Votes: 961
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