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1. Next of Kin (1989)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt
Votes: 12,603 | Gross: $15.94M
2. Big Stone Gap (2014)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Family, Mystery
In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret.
Director: Adriana Trigiani | Stars: Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey
Votes: 3,320 | Gross: $1.01M
3. The Devil to Pay (I) (2019)
TV-14 | 87 min | Thriller
After the disappearance of her husband, a struggling farmer in an isolated Appalachian community fights to save her son when the cold-hearted matriarch of the oldest family on the mountain demands payment of a debt that could destroy a decade's old truce.
Directors: Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye | Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Catherine Dyer, Jayson Warner Smith, Adam Boyer
Votes: 1,236
4. The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 145 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1932, in Boston, the tough Harvard graduated Dr. Meg Laurel lashes out at the corrupt and powerful Judge Adamson. Her husband Dr. Thom Laurel is worried about the damage that the judge ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Jane Wyman, Andrew Duggan, Gary Lockwood
Votes: 234
5. Before the Fall (I) (2016)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A re-imagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" set in modern day, rural Virginia with Elizabeth Bennet as a man. Ben Bennet is an affluent but seemingly arrogant attorney who ... See full summary »
Director: Byrum Geisler | Stars: Ethan Sharrett, Chase Conner, Brandi Price, Jason Mac
Votes: 1,374
6. White Lightnin' (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Drama
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was... See full summary »
Director: Dominic Murphy | Stars: Muse Watson, Carrie Fisher, Wallace Merck, Stephanie Astalos-Jones
Votes: 1,851
7. A Country Christmas Story (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Family, Musical
A teenage chorister from a small Appalachian town dreams of becoming a country music star.
Director: Eric Bross | Stars: Megyn Price, Ross McCall, Brian McKnight, Desiree Ross
Votes: 685
8. Southbounders (2005)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
A young woman attempts a "thru-hike" of the Appalachian Trail, the 2,170 mile footpath wandering the length of the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Georgia.
Director: Ben Wagner | Stars: Amy Cale Peterson, Scott Speiser, Christopher McCutchen, Dick Barron
Votes: 158
9. Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (2008)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary
Through the experiences of two amateur Bigfoot researchers in Appalachian Ohio, we see how the power of a dream can bring two men together and provide a source of hope and meaning that transcend the harsh realities of life in a dying steel town.
Director: Jay Delaney | Stars: Dallas Gilbert, Wayne Burton, C. Thomas Biscardi
Votes: 246
11. The Mystery of George Masa (2002)
Documentary
The Mystery of George Masa details the life of Masahara Izuka, (AKA George Masa) a Japanese immigrant who came to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina in 1915, where he ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bonesteel | Stars: Barbara Sayer, Tatsuo Ichikawa, Bernie Segal, Larry Adams
Votes: 9
12. 2000 Miles to Maine: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail (2004 Video)
85 min | Documentary
Inspired by Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, director Douglas Morse and producer Heide Estes traveled to the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail in Georgia. They wanted to capture ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Morse | Star: Chad Molter
Votes: 37
13. Appalachia (2013)
7 min | Short, Drama
In a new nation, Robinson Adams must part with his old life at the foot of the mountains -- the mountains that stand between him and his dream of a new life: the mountains they call the Appalachians.
Director: Kyran Ford | Stars: Cole Blaine, Pete Dryden
Votes: 10
14. Mountain Talk (2004)
TV-G | 57 min | Documentary
Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whose families have lived there for generations.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Bertie Berleson, Gary Carden, 'Pink' Francis, Jim Tom Hedrick
Votes: 43
15. Shooting Creek (1995)
30 min | Drama, Short, Western
Director: J.T.S. Moore | Stars: Brian Abercrombie, Karen Tucker, Doug Kruse, Van Dykes
Votes: 35
16. The Day Over to the Belva-Straight Creek Mine (2011)
E | 2 min | Short
December 26, 1945, Boxing Day. Between thirty-five and fifty miners of the Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company are trapped in an explosion at the Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company at Four Mile in Bell County Kentucky.
Director: Tim Cornett | Star: Tim Cornett
17. Teh-Li Po: An Appalachian Legend (2012)
15 min | Short, History, Horror | Completed
Tailypo is an old folktale popularized in the Appalachian region of America. An old man living in the woods, short on food, crosses paths with a strange creature with a long tail. The old ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Temmesfeld | Star: Darryl Hilton
18. The Outlaw Lewis Redmond (2009)
TV-PG | 27 min | Documentary, Short
Storytellers, folklorists, historians and descendants recover the memory of the 'American Robin Hood,' 'Major' Lewis Redmond, at one time the most famous outlaw in the United States.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Jerry Alexander, Gary Carden, Joseph Dabney, Milton Higgins
Votes: 7
20. Stalin and Hitler: The Motion Picture (2009)
Not Rated | 38 min | Short, Comedy
In an alternate Post-WWII history, Stalin and Hitler are pursuing degrees at a small liberal arts college in the mountains of North Carolina. However, when these two titans clash over the ... See full summary »
Directors: Jonathan Dantzler, Daniel Dockery, Zaque Smith | Stars: Nathan Paul Barker, Beckie Dillon, Daniel Dockery, Corina Penn-Bartoo
Votes: 20
21. Squzz Corn N' Ole Scratch (2012)
E | 2 min | Short
A short Appalachian tale of debauchery featuring engravings by José Guadalupe Posada.
Director: William S. Tribell | Star: Gary Burbank
22. Coventry (2009)
15 min | Short, Horror
In a remote mining camp, a group of Men find a mysterious Woman stranded in the Mountains.
Director: Daniel Coy | Stars: Daniel Coy, Matthew Goodman, Rusty Kirby
23. One of the Miracles: The Inge Meyring Smith Story (2010)
96 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
From German Holocaust survivor to American Civil Rights early-education pioneer, the life that Hitler sought to destroy became the light of learning for thousands of children.
Director: Clay Stafford
24. 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
25. Feels Like Home: An Appalachian Journey (2005)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Heavenly Littleton | Stars: Glenda Pender, Nick Pender, Deborah Self, Ralph Stanley
26. The Curse and the Jubilee (2011)
26 min | Documentary, Short
The Curse and The Jubilee is a collective voice of survival in the postindustrial, cursed mining town of Ivanhoe VA. The film engages the people as they are reconstituted through the ... See full summary »
Directors: Otis Ike, Ivete Lucas
Votes: 12
27. Skeltys and Foley: The Journey of the Band of Discovery (2011)
14 min | Short, Comedy
A 14 minute mockumentary, shot in the Appalachians in October 2010. Two Australian musicians set on on an epic journey of musical discovery and the country music scene is never the same ... See full summary »
Director: Nicole Skeltys | Stars: Lucy Foley, Charlie Humphrey, Herman Pearl, Nicole Skeltys
28. The Pioneer Doctor (2009)
PG | 25 min | Short, Drama
In Southern Appalachia, 1849, we find the Gist family trying to come to terms with the loss of their son, Isaac. Compounding the already hard times of mountain life, the remaining members ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Andrew Woods | Stars: Joe Sharp, Lydia Taylor, Luke Taylor, Myranda Byler
29. Fifty Years After Link (2006 Video)
85 min | Documentary
In the 1950s, O. Winston Link photographed operating steam locomotives of the Norfolk and Western railway, the last major American railroad to convert from steam to diesel power. Fifty ... See full summary »
Stars: Alfred Michael Coleman, Louis Newton
30.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
You'll Be the Death of Me
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A woman becomes the target of her murderous spouse after she finds a button from one of his victims.
Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Loggia, Pilar Seurat, Sondra Blake
Votes: 399
31.
Spirit Stalkers (2021– )
Episode:
We Caught a UFO on Camera in a Haunted Ghost Town
(2023)
Documentary
Stars: Jacob Bruce, Noah Bruce, Clayten Bynum