Songcatcher (2001), The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2003), The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009), Mine 9 (2019), My Side of the Mountain (1969), My Fellow Americans (1996), Foxfire (1987), A Walk in the Woods (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Appalachia movies.
Storyline: After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted - not only by the rugged purity of the music, but also by the raw courage and endurance of the local people as they carve out meaningful lives against the harshest conditions. It is not, however, until she meets Tom - a handsome, hardened war veteran and talented musician - that she's forced to examine her motivations. Is the "Songcatcher," as Tom insists, no better than the men who exploit the people and extort their land?—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: professor, sister, orphan, veteran, reverend, engaging, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Plot Keywords: photographer, poor person, emotional, engaging, striking, appalachia, kentucky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing - what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family. The legendary family is as known for their wild, excessive criminal ways as they are for their famous mountain dancing members, including Jesco White, the star of the cult classic documentary "Dancing Outlaw." Exploring both the comic and tragic sides of life on the other side of the law, this stylish, fast-paced family portrait exposes the powerful forces of corruption, poverty, and West Virginia's environmentally and culturally devastating coal mining culture that helped shape the White family, a dying breed of outlaws preserving a dying form of dance.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: mountain man, criminal, redneck, mother, brother, sister, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.
Plot Keywords: miner, rescue worker, family, bleak, disheartening, gritty, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.
Plot Keywords: boy, musician, falcon, raccoon, librarian, spirited, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, become reluctant allies when they become the target of a conspirator in President Haney's administration. The two ex-presidents realize they have an enemy within the government and set out to find evidence that will clear their names. The search takes them across the Southern Appalachians; along the way they meet a homeless couple, thwart kidnapers in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant, and find themselves marching in a gay pride parade.
Plot Keywords: president, contractor, goon, politician, homeless person, gay man, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fierce but aging widow Annie Nations (Jessica Tandy) lives alone on her farm. Unable to let go of the past -- she sometimes visits with the ghost of her husband (Hume Cronyn) -- Annie gets pulled into a very current battle with a real estate developer looking to buy her land. Annie also needs to help her son, Dillard (John Denver), a country singer struggling to raise his two daughters on his own. As Annie deals with these pressures, she begins to reflect on her long life on the farm.
Plot Keywords: real estate developer, widow, ghost, singer, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife, and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law - sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.
Plot Keywords: author, wife, hiker, friend, amusing, cheery, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reaction leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future.
Plot Keywords: u.s. president, reporter, astronomer, girlfriend, astronaut, thrilling, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.
Plot Keywords: group member, friend, cult member, murderer, hiker, frightening, gory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis (Omari Hardwick) to lose control of the plane carrying him and his family. He awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise's (Loretta Devine) attic, who claims she can nurse him back to health with the Boogity, a Hoodoo figure she has made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to outwit and break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.
Plot Keywords: pilot, son, father, shaman, thrilling, bleak, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter, Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her wedding day, under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), a dangerous secret is unearthed and she is forced to confront the deadly tradition of her father's church.
Plot Keywords: daughter, boyfriend, husband, father, family, faith healer, pastor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this psychological thriller, nineteen-year old Charlotte enlists the help of alcoholic ex-Marine Wayne to find her estranged sister who has gone missing deep in the Appalachian Mountains. Their search leads them to the Church of One Accord and an enigmatic snake-handling preacher named Brother Billy, who's devoted congregation of outcasts knowingly risk injury or death seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost. What Wayne and Charlotte uncover during their time on the mountain - about themselves and the nature of faith - will shake them to their core, as the mystery of Charlotte's sister and her fate unravels...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: ghost, sister, young woman, suspenseful, appalachia, church, search ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A long-buried family secret disrupts the quiet life of a single, middle-aged woman (Ashley Judd) in 1978 Virginia.
Plot Keywords: eccentric, spinster, pharmacist, young woman, friend, family, celebrity ...
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