Selma (2014), Whatever Works (2009), Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003), Virginia City (1940), Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2003), G.I. Blues (1960), A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), Tammy and the Doctor (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Southerner movies.
Storyline: The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.
Plot Keywords: martin luther king jr., lyndon baines johnson, protester, police officer, southerner, racist, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to love, "whatever works" is his motto, but his already perplexed life complicates itself further when Melodie's parents eventually track her down.
Plot Keywords: misanthrope, southerner, naïve person, mother, father, boyfriend, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The comedic stylings of four sort-of famous funnymen are brought to the big screen courtesy of this 2002 documentary.
Plot Keywords: amusing, charming, stage, backstage, arizona, touring, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford escapes from a notorious confederate prison. He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City where Confederate sympathizers are prepared to donate $5 million dollars to the cause of Southern independence. The war is going badly for the Confederacy and money may tip the war in their favor. On the stagecoach to Virginia City, Bradford meets and falls in love with Julia Hayne not realizing that she is one of the conspirators. When he gets to Virginia City, he also runs into Confederate Captain Vance Irby who has been sent to collect and safely deliver the gold. Irby manages to get out of the city but the Union cavalry is in hot pursue. When Bradfoed catches up with them, he not only has to fight Irby but also John Murrell, a bandit who has his own plans for the gold. He also—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: southerner, commander, intelligence officer, bandit, friend, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Traveling through the American South, documentarian Andrew Douglas trains his lens on Jim White, an alternative-country musician, as he performs in venues that range in variety from churches to coal mines. During this journey, White shares his experience of growing up in the Deep South, while Douglas interviews a number of other Southern musicians, artists and writers, attempting to gain a perspective on a unique culture that is often overlooked.
Plot Keywords: southerner, musician, singer, novelist, artist, writer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army....but dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can spend the night with a club dancer named Lili, who is rumored to be hard to get. When Dynamite gets transferred, Tulsa is brought in to take his place. He is not looking forward to it, but in order to keep his money, he must go through with it.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: soldier, dancer, friend, beautiful girl, southerner, singer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. She's further taken aback when she meets sexy swamp girl Flamingo, who considered Hank hers and is murderously jealous. Now Hank starts crusading against a crooked cotton buyer, and swiftly rises toward political power. Is there no stopping him?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: political candidate, southerner, schoolteacher, lawyer, farmer, gangster, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Mrs. Call's heart condition acts up, Tammy tags along in the trip to Los Angeles when the old lady is getting her surgery. Since there are no guest quarters in the hospital, Tammy gets a job in the hospital as a nurse's assistant. Peter Fonda plays Tammy's love interest, Dr. Mark Cheswick, while Adam West has a small part as Dr. Eric Hassler. This is the final entry in the canonic film series, and Sandra Dee's last appearance as Tammy.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: southerner, doctor, patient, country girl, friend, old woman, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: SAVANNAH is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his loyal friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: slave, hunter, wealthy man, love interest, southerner, moving, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out to oppose them. As the tracks push westward, Nelson must contend with increasingly violent sabotage, while trying to romance the foreman's pretty daughter Barbara.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: army officer, railroad engineer, railroad worker, boss, daughter, southerner, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While traveling on vacation to Florida, the college friends Anderson Lee, Cory Jones and Nelson Elliot meet the gorgeous Joey and Kat in a gas station traveling with their gay friend Ricky to the same location. Anderson gives his phone number to Joey in Florida. The teenagers decide to take a shortcut and they find a detour through an old road leading to the Southern town of Pleasant Valley. They are welcomed by the local Mayor Buckman as guests of honor together with Joey, Kat, Ricky and the Afro-American biker Malcolm and his Chinese girlfriend Leah and invited to stay for their Guts and Glory Jubilee with free lodging, meals and booze at Granny Boone's hotel, and dancing, games and a mouth-watering barbecue in the climax of the jubilee. The group accepts the invitation but sooner they find who will supply the meat for the feast.
Plot Keywords: college student, friend, mayor, southerner, townsperson, chilling, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this poignant true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him. SON OF THE SOUTH is from executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner's autobiography, "The Wrong Side of Murder Creek."—Vertical Entertainment
Plot Keywords: klansman, civil rights activist, southerner, brooding, emotional, touching, montgomery, ala. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Union soldier on his way home runs afoul of Jim Vance and his nephew Ellison Hatfield. Confederate sympathizers, they're furious with the idea of one of their neighbors fighting for the Union.
Plot Keywords: union soldier, confederate soldier, southerner, family, gunman, gunslinger, brooding ...
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