The Green Mile (1999), Green Book (2018), The General (1926), In the Heat of the Night (1967), 4 Little Girls (1997), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Just Mercy (2019), Intruder in the Dust (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best American South movies.
Storyline: Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) is a hermit who has no regard for anybody in the town or anyone who wants to get to know him. But one day, after a fellow old hermit has died and he hears people in the town telling stories about him, he decides that he needs to get these stories out in the public. He recruits Frank (Bill Murray), the local funeral home director, to host his own funeral. This way he can hear what everyone is saying about him, and get the truth to his past out in the open. But will he be able to get anybody to come? And will he be able to reveal his secrets?
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, hiding, disguise, storytelling, love, anger, cabin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having flunked graduation for a second time and needing cash to support his crabby (and thus unemployed) father, Danny Fisher takes a job as a singer in the King Creole nightclub - about the only joint around not run by smarmy crook Maxie Fields who wants him for his own place. He gets on pretty well with Fields' floozy though, and all this plus his involvement with Fields' hoods and with innocent five-and-dime store assistant Nellie means Danny finds his world closing in on him all ways round.—J-26
Plot Keywords: criminal, based on novel, based on book, street gang, new orleans louisiana, singing, music band ...
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: theft, underwear, watching a movie, twenty something, teenage girl, fired from the job, looking for work ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.
Plot Keywords: closeted homosexual, rumor, mayor, church, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, preacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1976, real life Coach Jones befriends mentally disabled black student, Radio. They then form a friendship and bond over the football season. Though things take a turn for the worst when certain fans and parents feel that Radio is a distraction, and is getting in the way of the team succeeding.
Plot Keywords: disability, cruelty, wrongful arrest, father daughter relationship, graduation, jail, mother son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mordecai Jones is a rural con artist (a 'flim-flam man') who takes on a young army deserter; Curley as his protege, and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade is in hot pursuit of the pair, and rich girl Bonnie Lee Packard becomes romantically involved with Curley, and helps the fleeing duo stay one step ahead of the sheriff.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: american south, rural setting, fugitive, con artist, based on novel, prison escape, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk -- with the exception of Camille Dixon -- a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora, whose estranged daughter Emma has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland, who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined.
Plot Keywords: death, inheritance, ensemble film, dysfunctional family, southern u.s., character name in title, church ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At an all-black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War. Going after him, she succeeds only in getting him into the stockade. While she awaits his release, trouble approaches for both of them. Songs from the Bizet opera with modernized lyrics.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: strong female character, african american, desertion, boxer, omen, male female relationship, fortune telling ...
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: camp, infidelity, femme fatale, betrayal, automobile accident, dysfunctional marriage, domination ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a small coastal town, the veterinarian Travis Shaw works with his father Shep and is very close to his beloved sister Steph. Travis is very successful with the women and dates Monica every now and then. When the resident Gabby Holland moves to the next door house, she initially believes he is a pretentious man. But when her boyfriend Ryan MacCarthy, who is fellow doctor in the same hospital where she works, needs to travel to another city, Gabby and Travis have a relationship and fall in love with each other. Out of the blue, Ryan returns and proposes to marry her. Now Gabby has to make a choice between her two loves.
Plot Keywords: south carolina, nosebleed, punched in the face, nurse, pickup truck, seagull, pride ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: southern belle, 1850s, racism, based on novel, race relations, prejudice, new orleans louisiana ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young hospice worker helping care for an invalid who lives in a remote mansion in the Louisiana bayous finds herself caught in the middle of morbid happenings centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners.
Plot Keywords: bound and gagged, southern gothic, surprise ending, no title at beginning, record player, police officer, cell phone ...
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: guitarist, dancing, false accusation, singing, chandelier, pet dog, prisoner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three years into the American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies is still running, occupied by the matriarch, a teacher and five students in Spanish moss-draped Virginia. However, when a young student stumbles upon Corporal John McBurney, a wounded Union deserter on the verge of death, the already frail balance of things will be disrupted, as the hesitant headmistress decides to take him in to heal from his injury. Little by little, as the unwelcome guest arouses an uneasy sexual excitation among the women of the secluded boarding school, it is not before long that they will find themselves competing for the alluring man's favour. Undoubtedly, this handsome devil is a manipulator, nevertheless, will the ladies stay forever beguiled by his charm?
Plot Keywords: wounded soldier, american civil war, amputee, sexual tension, confederate soldier, southern belle, seduction ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Siddalee Walker (Sandra Bullock), a famous New York City playwright, is quoted in Time Magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother's friends (and members of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her "home" to the South, where they hope to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
Plot Keywords: childhood memory, reconciliation, friendship between women, mother daughter relationship, female bonding, deep south, confession ...
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