A Face in the Crowd (1957), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Little Colonel (1935), Cabin in the Sky (1943), A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), The Sun Shines Bright (1954), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), Ruby in Paradise (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Southern Setting movies.
Storyline: "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Plot Keywords: drama, film noir, social critique, media satire, celebrity culture, american dream, manipulation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.
Plot Keywords: drama, erotic, psychological, independent film, marriage, betrayal, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, musical, drama, children, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chronic gambler and carouser "Little" Joe Jackson is shot by Domino Johnson at Jim Henry's gambling club over an outstanding gambling debt. Little Joe's wife, the God-fearing Petunia Jackson, prays not only for her husband's mortal life, but also his eternal soul as she's afraid that if he dies now, he, despite not being an evil man, won't make it into heaven. As Little Joe is close to death, he is visited by agents of both the Lord and of Lucifer. They make a deal with him: they will give him six months to atone for the errors of his human life. Once back on Earth, he won't remember the deal but both the Lord and Lucifer will be watching over him, trying to get him to see things their way. As both sides try to get Little Joe's soul, they figure that some of the most powerful tools they have at their disposal are the women in Little Joe's life: Petunia on behalf of the Lord, and Georgia Brown, a gold-digging floozy, on behalf of Lucifer. As hard as both the Lord and Lucifer try to get Little Joe on their side, they don't factor into the equation human judgment, which turns some of their work against them.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: musical, fantasy, comedy, romance, religious, african american, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, Pursy (played by Scarlett Johansson), learns that her estranged mother has died in New Orleans. She returns to her mother's house to discover that it is inhabited by two men, one an aging alcoholic, Bobby Long (John Travolta).
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, american film, independent film, literary adaptation, family relationships, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.—Bernard Keane <BKeane2@email.dot.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: western, comedy, drama, american film, black and white, 1950s, small town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Pete's plane crashes in the swamp, he's rescued by young Tammy, an unsophisticated backwoods girl who lives with her lay-preacher-cum-moonshiner grandfather. When Pete's well, he goes back home to his fiancée. But then Grampa gets sent to jail and he sends Tammy to stay with Pete. At Pete's house, Tammy's home cooking, enthusiasm and quaint sunshiny personality bring about changes in Pete's family and in Pete himself.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, musical, 1950s, hollywood, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ruby, a young woman, arrives in a Florida resort town during the off season to make a fresh start. She gets work as a sales clerk in a souvineer shop run by Mildred Chambers. She dates, and sleeps with, Ricky Chambers, Mildred's conceited son, but breaks off with him when she finds she's just another conquest. She gets involved with Mike, a left-wing greenhouse worker. As the seasons change, Ruby's relationships with others and herself go through metamorphoses as she makes choices and discoveries establishing her own identity. A character study.—James Meek <james@oz.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, female coming-of-age, independent film, self-discovery, female director, working class, florida ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eva Phillips is a Southern socialite whose manipulation and ruthlessness ruins the lives of everyone around her. The question is, will anyone be able to stop her?—Kelly
Plot Keywords: drama, female lead, family, marriage, power struggle, 1950s, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A remake of the 1955 comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman's house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, remake, american film, tom hanks, heist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1937. Comedy directed by Bernard Vorhaus. Stars Will Fyffe, Stanley Holloway and Jimmy Hanley. Rival cotton mill owners work together to win a contract when love blossoms between the rival's off-spring.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, american film, black and white, 1930s, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, american film, 2020 film, black comedy, drug trade ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poignant, lyrical drama about a mother (Hunter), who, in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.
Plot Keywords: drama, female lead, independent film, road movie, emotional, grief, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring. So when the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland's ID'd as a snitch, the two team up to take down the mob and the crime boss who ordered—Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Plot Keywords: crime, action, thriller, american film, louisiana, undercover, police ...
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: action, adventure, comedy, crime, thriller, drama, racing ...
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