Southern Usa Movies

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

The 2020 U.S. election, January 6 insurrection, and transition of power are recast and retold in a radical transformation of Tennessee Williams's Cat...

A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at...

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating...

A slice-of-life documentary following a visually-impaired married couple as they prepare for a trip to the grocery store.

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke...

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his...

Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the...

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a...

Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes...

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.