Lawless (2012), Up Front (1951), Dig Two Graves (2014), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Thunder Road (1958), White Lightning (1973), The Last American Hero (1973), The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Moonshiner movies.
Storyline: In 1931, in Franklin County, Virginia, Forrest Bondurant is a legend as immortal after surviving the war. Together with his brothers Howard and the coward Jack, the Bondurant family has a distillery and bootlegging business. When the corrupt District Attorney Mason Wardell arrives in Franklin with the unscrupulous Special Deputy Charles Rakes, the Bondurant family refuses to pay the required bribe to the authorities. Rakes pursues the brothers and unsuccessfully tries to find their distillery. Meanwhile Forrest hires the waitress Maggie, a woman with a hidden past in Chicago, and they fall in love with each other. Jack courts the preacher's daughter Bertha Minnix and deals a great load of alcoholic liquor with the powerful gangster Floyd Banner. Jack shows off in Franklin attracting the attention of Rakes that finds the location of their distillery. When he kills the crippled Cricket Pete, the locals join forces to face the corrupt authorities.
Plot Keywords: bootlegger, moonshiner, brother, girlfriend, police officer, special agent, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: soldier, captain, woman, father, police officer, moonshiner, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three backwoods moonshiners offer to bring a 13-year-old girl's (Samantha Isler) brother back to life, but at a grim cost.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, mysterious man, moonshiner, brother, brooding, chilling, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Matt Masters, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence. Still, Matt does not quite trust Howitt.....—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: stranger, moonshiner, daughter, son, uncle, aunt, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, driver, mechanic, treasury agent, mobster, father, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, sheriff, corrupt cop, prosecutor, criminal, thrilling, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, driver, brother, sponsor, prisoner, groupie, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Dukes, a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, and struggle for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them work but is met with failure at every turn. Finally pushed to the extreme , they pull a heist only a fool would attempt, which leaves them even more desperate. When all seems lost, they find themselves. Underneath the laughter, the film explores the intricacies of redefining yourself; not dealing only with lost fame, but for anyone who's found themselves at the bottom of the mountain looking up to where they once were; and how, in changing times, to hold on to your true self.—Bob Byers
Plot Keywords: cousin, best friend, moonshiner, wild, hilarious, moonshine, saving the day ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. In the meantime, Wilma also kidnaps the daughter of a millionaire in the hopes of getting rich off the ransom. Will Wilma and Fred be able to retire with their ill-gotten gains, or will the law eventually catch up with them?—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: bank robber, moonshiner, con artist, daughter, police chief, sister, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, father, daughter, mobster, police officer, amusing, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Georgia's dusty Hazzard County, the close-knit Duke cousins, Bo and Luke, deliver Uncle Jesse's fine moonshine. Zooming down the rough backwoods on their powerful muscle-car--the tangerine 1969 Dodge Charger, General Lee--the boys easily outrun the corrupt county commissioner Boss Hogg's forces, and his loyal henchman, Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane. However, when the clan of moonshiners are left with nothing, only Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke can save their farm, as the day of the annual road rally approaches. Can the Dukes of Hazzard beat Hogg's champion, Billy Prickett, save the day, and their beloved home?
Plot Keywords: country boy, moonshiner, political boss, sheriff, brother, cousin, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The U.S. government wants to build a missile silo inside a Tennessee mountain, but the backwoods hillbillies who own it refuse to lease it to them. Josh (Elvis Presley), a relative of the owners and a G.I. scout, is sent in to try to reason with them, but he soon runs afoul of his identical cousin, Jodie (also Presley), who hates his city-bred lookalike and everything he stands for. Meanwhile, troops begin moving into the area, and are seduced by a host of country beauties.
Plot Keywords: scout, hillbilly, moonshiner, pretty woman, army officer, cousin, airy ...
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