Highest-Rated Movies about 'The South', Sort by Popularity

The Horse Soldiers (1959), Big Fish (2003), La Collectionneuse (1967), Pippi in the South Seas (1970), Still Life (2014), In This Our Life (1942), Orania (2012), The Member of the Wedding (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best The South movies.

#16. Bucktown (1975)

Storyline: Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local police are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.—veloc <velo_00@yahoo.com>

Plot Keywords: man, police officer, love interest, old friend, brother, cop, tense ...

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#18. The Hellbenders (1967)

Storyline: The Civil War is over and the South has fallen, but Col. Jonas (Joseph Cotten) has a plan to revive the Confederacy. He raids a Union Army detail and walks away with valuable treasure that he intends to put to use raising another rebel army. Jonas needs to keep the treasure safe during shipment, so he places it in a coffin and forces saloon girl Claire (Norma Bengell) to play widow. Claire is unwilling to do her part, however, and puts herself in danger by opposing the dangerous Jonas.

Plot Keywords: colonel, son, outlaw, saloon girl, alcoholic, thief, brutal ...

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#19. Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Storyline: Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment and she is eventually sucked into a life of crime with him.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: waif, union organizer, gambler, gunner, tense, gritty, dreamy ...

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#20. Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

Storyline: It's been a few years since Cletus and the Bandit made their famous 28-hour run to Texas for a few cases of Coors. Bandit is now a washed-up has-been living in the past, until Big Enos and Little Enos make him another offer: Transport a live Elephant across country in 3 days or less.

Plot Keywords: driver, friend, sheriff, girlfriend, gynecologist, son, amusing ...

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#21. Go Down Death (1944)

Storyline: A bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations. The bar owner's adoptive mother, a member of the minister's church, supports the preacher and gets the photographic prints. When the bar owner struggles with his mother for the prints, he accidentally kills her. After the preacher's funeral sermon, the bar owner's conscience drives him to his death.—Gary Imhoff, gary@dcwatch.com

Plot Keywords: gang leader, preacher, aunt, ghost, niece, gripping, solemn ...

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#22. An Occasional Hell (1996)

Storyline: When a married man is found murdered, and his girlfriend is missing, the police suspect the wife of the murdered man. The wife turns to a professor at college who is a medically disabled ex-cop to help clear her. Not wanting the job at first, he eventually does begin to investigate the crime while fighting the demons and the pain of his own life. The clues are scarce, but one clue is that the man was murdered with an unusual weapon - a musket.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: ex-cop, college professor, husband, lover, student, state trooper, suspenseful ...

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