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.
Storyline: A pacifist doctor (William Holden) joins a Union colonel's (John Wayne) cavalry raid in Confederate territory.
Plot Keywords: major, colonel, surgeon, southern belle, mistress, slave, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the ...
Plot Keywords: father, son, wife, doctor, circus performer, giant, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man (Patrick Bauchau) tells himself high ideals are what kept him from sleeping with a temptress (Haydée Politoff) staying at the same St. Tropez boarding house.
Plot Keywords: collector, teenager, art dealer, emotional, villa, the south, time ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Little Swedish Pippi (Inger Nilsson) flies off with Tommy (Pär Sundberg) and Annika (Maria Persson) to rescue her sea-captain father from pirates.
Plot Keywords: father, captain, lot, thrilling, the south, castle, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Still Life is a poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife. Meticulous and organized to the point of obsession, John May (Eddie Marsan) is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life at last.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: civil servant, neighbor, professional, amusing, emotional, funeral, the south ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young woman, Stanley Timberlake, dumps her fiance, Craig Fleming, and runs off with her sister Roy's husband, Peter Kingsmill. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk, Parry Clay, who works in Craig's law office.—Bonnie Barber <bonbar@mit.edu>
Plot Keywords: socialite, decorator, lawyer, doctor, melodramatic, brash, maryland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eight hundred white South Africans form their own independent community to preserve their cultural identity.
Plot Keywords: white man, african, private, emotional, village, the south, community ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy and a satire on psychologists finds young Johnny Brent, the only child of a pair of psychologists, trading an "invisible watch" to a much-younger child for a large magnet. His nurse/nanny accuses him of stealing and scolds him and he runs away. He soon convinces himself that the police are after him and following several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the magnet, he presents it to an organizer of a fund-raising campaign for acquiring an iron-lung for the local hospital. The magnet is one of the auction items and finally is mounted on the iron-lung as a tribute to the unknown donor. Meanwhile, the father makes a completely inaccurate diagnosis for the mother of the boy's worries. In the end the boy meets the child he thought had died as a result of losing the magnet, and trades the boy back for the return of his "invisible watch" the gold medal the town mayor had given him for his part in the hospital campaign.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: girl, cousin, maid, brother, girlfriend, dark, family home ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
Plot Keywords: art expert, husband, pregnant woman, father, mother, brother, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: huckleberry finn, runaway, slave, alcoholic, friend, con artist, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school's executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Through various pressures, Jocko silences such involuntary accomplices as his roommate Harold Koble, football star Roger Gatt and freshmen Robert Marquales and Maynard Simmons, a girl-fearing cadet whom Jocko terrorizes into dating Rosebud, a town girl.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: explorer, sailor, diver, engaging, passionate, boat, indian ocean ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Loosely based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, the story of a young woman destined from childhood on to be adored by millions but unhappy in her own life. Patty Duke plays Emily Ann Faulkner as a young, friendless, fatherless rural southern girl whose mother is indifferent to her. As a teenager, Emily Ann, played by Kim Stanley, remains a loner but with one small exception - boys dote on her, drawn by her beauty and her powerful aura of feminine sexuality. Emily Ann marries young but leaves her first husband when she meets young prizefighter Dutch Seymour (Lloyd Bridges). She becomes an actress and her star rises rapidly until she hits the heights of fame - and the depths of anguish.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: movie star, promoter, soldier, mother, dark, somber, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: According to the legend of the Shangaan, white lions are the messengers of the gods, but it has been years since one has been seen in their remote African valley. When a white lion is miraculously born into that valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani, finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs. This young lion, whom will be known as Letsatsi, is cast from his pride and forced to embark upon a perilous journey of survival. Close to starvation, Letsatsi befriends Nkulu, an older lion and together they learn how to survive in the harsh African wilderness. Gisani, who is watching over Letsatsi, takes a job as a tracker with a local hunter, who has his sights set on leading the hunt for this rare and magnificent white lion. Gisani, guided by fate, believes that he must find a way to prevent this tragedy from happening. When Nkulu is killed by a farmer, Letsatsi is forced once again to survive on his own. After many trials and tribulations he finally learns to hunt by himself and grows into a magnificent adult. But before he can take over a pride of his own, Letsatsi and Gisani must face their greatest challenge - the trophy hunter- for whom legends are worthless and rare skins priceless.
Plot Keywords: tracker, hunter, boy, engaging, valley, the south, life ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jack Stanton is running for president. The election is seen through the eyes of young Henry Burton. Along the way Stanton must deal with a sex scandal.
Plot Keywords: governor, campaign manager, political consultant, wife, lesbian, amusing, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Glen Tyler (Elvis Presley), a down on his luck young man, is sent to counselor Irene Sperry (Hope Lange) to begin battling his personal demons. While under her tutelage a flair for writing emerges. Can she guide him down the right path or will her interference lead to his demise?—Conroys
Plot Keywords: young man, counselor, love interest, pretty woman, townsperson, brother, emotional ...
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