List of films set in the Southern United States

The following is a partial chronological list of movies set in the Southern United States:

## 1890s

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* Down in Dixie, 1898
* Loading a Mississippi Steamboat, 1898
* Way Down South, 1898

## 1900s

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* Arrival of Rex, 1902
* Mardi Gras Parade, 1902
* In Old Kentucky, 1909

## 1910s

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* The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg, 1911
* A Gentleman from Mississippi, 1914
* The Birth of a Nation, 1915
* The Coward, 1915
* Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1918
* Almost a Husband, 1919
* John Petticoats, 1919

## 1920s

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* The Copperhead, 1920
* Huckleberry Finn, 1920
* Tol'able David, 1921
* Our Hospitality, 1923
* The White Rose, 1923
* America, 1924
* The General, 1926
* Court Martial, 1928
* Hallelujah, 1929
* Show Boat, 1929
* Chiefs (miniseries)

## 1930s

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* Abraham Lincoln, 1930
* Tol'able David, 1930
* Huckleberry Finn, 1931
* Secret Service, 1931
* I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932
* The Cabin in the Cotton, 1932
* The Wet Parade, 1932
* The Story of Temple Drake, 1933
* Bed of Roses, 1933
* Belle of the Nineties, 1934
* It Happened One Night, 1934
* Judge Priest, 1934
* Operator 13, 1934
* The World Moves On, 1934
* The Little Colonel, 1935
* The Littlest Rebel, 1935
* Naughty Marietta, 1935
* So Red the Rose, 1935
* Steamboat Round the Bend, 1935
* General Spanky, 1936
* The Green Pastures, 1936
* Hearts in Bondage, 1936
* The Prisoner of Shark Island, 1936
* Show Boat, 1936
* They Won't Forget, 1937
* The Buccaneer, 1938
* The Cowboy and the Lady, 1938
* Jezebel, 1938
* Kentucky, 1938
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1939
* The Cat and the Canary, 1939
* Gone with the Wind, 1939
* Man of Conquest, 1939
* Zenobia, 1939

## 1940s

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* The Howards of Virginia, 1940
* Virginia City, 1940
* Belle Starr, 1941
* The Little Foxes, 1941
* Sergeant York, 1941
* Swamp Water, 1941
* Tobacco Road, 1941
* The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, 1942
* Reap the Wild Wind, 1942
* Tennessee Johnson, 1942
* Son of Dracula, 1943
* The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944
* Christmas Holiday, 1944
* Go Down, Death!, 1944
* The Mummy's Curse, 1944
* Wilson, 1944
* The Bride Wore Boots, 1945
* Leave Her to Heaven, 1945
* The Jolson Story, 1946
* Song of the South, 1946
* The Yearling, 1946
* Dead Reckoning, 1947
* Another Part of the Forest, 1948
* Key Largo, 1948
* Louisiana Story, 1948
* Moonrise, 1948
* A Southern Yankee, 1948
* All the King's Men, 1949
* The Fighting Kentuckian, 1949
* Intruder in the Dust, 1949
* Pinky, 1949
* South of St. Louis, 1949

## 1950s

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* The Glass Menagerie, 1950
* Panic in the Streets, 1950
* Adventures of Captain Fabian, 1951
* Drums in the Deep South, 1951
* I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, 1951
* Show Boat, 1951
* A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
* Lure of the Wilderness, 1952
* The Member of the Wedding, 1952
* Ruby Gentry, 1952
* Stars and Stripes Forever, 1952
* The Story of Will Rogers, 1952
* Bright Road, 1953
* Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, 1953
* The Mississippi Gambler, 1953
* The President's Lady, 1953
* Seminole, 1953
* The Sun Shines Bright, 1953
* Carmen Jones, 1954
* The Night of the Hunter, 1955
* The Phenix City Story, 1955
* Prince of Players, 1955
* Queen Bee, 1955
* Baby Doll, 1956
* Giant, 1956
* The Great Locomotive Chase, 1956
* The Kettles in the Ozarks, 1956
* The Searchers, 1956
* April Love, 1957
* Band of Angels, 1957
* Drango, 1957
* A Face in the Crowd, 1957
* Old Yeller, 1957
* Tammy and the Bachelor, 1957
* The Three Faces of Eve, 1957
* The Buccaneer, 1958
* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
* The Defiant Ones, 1958
* God's Little Acre, 1958
* King Creole, 1958
* The Long, Hot Summer, 1958
* No Time for Sergeants, 1958
* Thunder Road, 1958
* Wind Across the Everglades, 1958
* The Alligator People, 1959
* Attack of the Giant Leeches, 1959
* A Hole in the Head, 1959
* The Horse Soldiers, 1959
* John Paul Jones, 1959
* Porgy and Bess, 1959
* The Sound and the Fury, 1959
* Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959

## 1960s

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* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1960
* "Chiefs (miniseries)
* The Alamo, 1960
* The Fugitive Kind, 1960
* Inherit the Wind, 1960
* The Jailbreakers, 1960
* Where the Boys Are, 1960
* Wild River, 1960
* Angel Baby, 1961
* Claudelle Inglish, 1961
* The Dead One, 1961
* Sanctuary, 1961
* Summer and Smoke, 1961
* Tammy Tell Me True, 1961
* Wild in the Country, 1961
* Airborne, 1962
* Cape Fear, 1962
* Follow That Dream, 1962
* The Intruder, 1962
* The Miracle Worker, 1962
* Period of Adjustment, 1962
* The Streets of Greenwood, 1962
* Sweet Bird of Youth, 1962
* To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962
* Walk on the Wild Side, 1962
* Flipper, 1963
* Gone Are the Days!, 1963
* Soldier in the Rain, 1963
* Blood Feast, 1963
* Toys in the Attic, 1963
* Black Like Me, 1964
* Flipper's New Adventure, 1964
* Goldfinger, 1964
* Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, 1964
* Kissin' Cousins, 1964
* Two Thousand Maniacs!, 1964
* The Cincinnati Kid, 1965
* Shenandoah, 1965
* The Black Klansman, 1966
* Birds Do It, 1966
* The Chase, 1966
* Frankie and Johnny, 1966
* This Property Is Condemned, 1966
* Clambake, 1967
* The Gruesome Twosome, 1967
* Cool Hand Luke, 1967
* The Flim-Flam Man, 1967
* Hotel, 1967
* Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
* Hurry Sundown, 1967
* In the Heat of the Night, 1967
* Reflections in a Golden Eye, 1967
* Finian's Rainbow, 1968
* The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, 1968
* The Devil's 8, 1969
* The Wild Bunch, 1969
* Easy Rider, 1969
* The Reivers, 1969
* True Grit, 1969

## 1970s

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* I Walk the Line, 1970
* Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, 1970
* The Liberation of L.B. Jones, 1970
* The Moonshine War, 1970
* Brewster McCloud, 1970
* Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came, 1970
* ...tick...tick...tick..., 1970
* WUSA, 1970
* The Beguiled, 1971
* Fantasia Among the Squares, 1971
* The Last Picture Show, 1971
* Swamp Girl, 1971
* The Tender Warrior, 1971
* Goodbye Uncle Tom, 1971
* Boxcar Bertha, 1972
* The Getaway, 1972
* Deliverance, 1972
* Fear Is the Key, 1972
* Frogs, 1972
* The Legend of Boggy Creek, 1972
* No Drums, No Bugles, 1972
* Sounder, 1972
* Tomorrow, 1972
* Welcome Home Soldier Boys, 1972
* The Last American Hero, 1973
* Steel Arena, 1973
* Live and Let Die, 1973
* Walking Tall, 1973
* White Lightning, 1973
* The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1974
* Axe, 1974
* Buster and Billie, 1974
* Conrack, 1974
* 'Gator Bait, 1974
* The Klansman, 1974
* The Longest Yard, 1974
* Macon County Line, 1974
* The Sugarland Express, 1974
* Thieves Like Us, 1974
* The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, 1974
* Where the Red Fern Grows, 1974
* The Drowning Pool, 1975
* Hard Times, 1975
* Moonrunners, 1975
* Nashville, 1975
* Night Moves, 1975
* Return to Macon County, 1975
* Walking Tall Part 2, 1975
* W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, 1975
* Fighting Mad, 1976
* Gator, 1976
* Ode to Billy Joe, 1976
* The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976
* The Savage Bees, 1976
* Harlan County, USA, 1976
* The Town That Dreaded Sundown, 1976
* Squirm, 1976
* Stay Hungry, 1976
* Eaten Alive, 1977
* Rolling Thunder, 1977
* Crime Busters, 1977
* The Rescuers, 1977
* Return to Boggy Creek, 1977
* Scalpel, 1977
* September 30, 1955, 1977
* Smokey and the Bandit, 1977
* Walking Tall: Final Chapter, 1977
* Casey's Shadow, 1978
* The Great Bank Hoax, 1978
* Odds and Evens, 1978
* Pretty Baby, 1978
* Summer of My German Soldier, 1978
* The Great Santini, 1979
* Norma Rae, 1979
* The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, 1979
* Wise Blood, 1979

## 1980s

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* Brubaker, 1980
* Urban Cowboy, 1980
* Smokey and the Bandit II, 1980
* Coal Miner's Daughter, 1980
* Body Heat, 1981
* Honky Tonk Freeway, 1981
* The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, 1981
* Sharky's Machine, 1981
* Southern Comfort, 1981
* Vernon, Florida, 1981
* Porky's, 1981
* Cat People, 1982
* Six Pack, 1982
* Cross Creek, 1983
* Go for It, 1983
* The Lords of Discipline, 1983
* The Outsiders, 1983
* Scarface, 1983
* Stroker Ace, 1983
* Tender Mercies, 1983
* Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, 1983
* Rumble Fish, 1983
* Porky's II: The Next Day, 1983
* A Flash of Green, 1984
* Paris, Texas, 1984
* Places in the Heart, 1984
* A Soldier's Story, 1984
* Tank, 1984
* Cocoon, 1985
* Porky's Revenge, 1985
* Private Resort, 1985
* Miami Supercops, 1985
* The Color Purple, 1985
* Crimes of the Heart, 1986
* Down by Law, 1986
* The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, 1986
* True Stories, 1986
* Angel Heart, 1987
* The Big Easy, 1987
* Matewan, 1987
* Shy People, 1987
* Miami Connection, 1987
* Bull Durham, 1988
* Biloxi Blues, 1988
* Mississippi Burning, 1988
* School Daze, 1988
* Track 29, 1988
* Driving Miss Daisy, 1989
* Fletch Lives, 1989
* Miss Firecracker, 1989
* Mystery Train, 1989
* Steel Magnolias, 1989
* Shag, 1989
* Heart of Dixie, 1989
* Tennessee Waltz, 1989

## 1990s

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* Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990
* The Long Walk Home, 1990
* Wild at Heart, 1990
* Texasville, 1990
* Cry-Baby, 1990
* Cape Fear, 1991
* Daughters of the Dust, 1991
* Doc Hollywood, 1991
* Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991
* JFK, 1991
* The Man in the Moon, 1991
* Mississippi Masala, 1991
* The Prince of Tides, 1991
* Slacker, 1991
* The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, 1992
* Malcolm X, 1992
* My Cousin Vinny, 1992
* One False Move, 1992
* Passion Fish, 1992
* The Adventures of Huck Finn, 1993
* The Firm, 1993
* Dazed and Confused, 1993
* Hard Target, 1993
* The Pelican Brief, 1993
* Ruby in Paradise, 1993
* The Thing Called Love, 1993
* Undercover Blues, 1993
* The Client, 1994
* Forrest Gump, 1994
* Interview with the Vampire, 1994
* Jason's Lyric, 1994
* River of Grass, 1994
* The War, 1994
* Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, 1995
* The Grass Harp, 1995
* Just Cause, 1995
* Something to Talk About, 1995
* Albino Alligator, 1996
* The Delta, 1996
* Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996
* Heaven's Prisoners, 1996
* Last Man Standing, 1996
* Sling Blade, 1996
* A Time to Kill, 1996
* The Apostle, 1997
* Eve's Bayou, 1997
* First Love, Last Rites, 1997
* Kiss the Girls, 1997
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1997
* The Rainmaker, 1997
* Rosewood, 1997
* Ulee's Gold, 1997
* The Devil's Advocate, 1998
* Down in the Delta, 1998
* Hope Floats, 1998
* Shadrach, 1998
* The Waterboy, 1998
* Wild Things, 1998
* Cookie's Fortune, 1999
* Crazy in Alabama, 1999
* The Green Mile, 1999
* The Hunley, 1999
* Life, 1999
* October Sky, 1999
* Varsity Blues, 1999

## 2000s

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* Big Momma's House, 2000
* George Washington, 2000
* The Gift, 2000
* The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2000
* My Dog Skip, 2000
* O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000
* Remember the Titans, 2000
* The Patriot, 2000
* Where the Heart Is, 2000
* The Accountant, 2001
* A Walk to Remember, 2001
* Children on Their Birthdays, 2002
* Daddy and Them, 2001
* Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 2002
* Drumline, 2002
* Monster's Ball, 2002
* The Rosa Parks Story, 2002
* Sunshine State, 2002
* Sweet Home Alabama, 2002
* Voodoo Tailz, 2002
* 2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003
* All the Real Girls, 2003
* Big Fish, 2003
* Cold Mountain, 2003
* Monster, 2003
* Radio, 2003
* The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003
* The Alamo, 2004
* Chrystal, 2004
* Friday Night Lights, 2004
* The Ladykillers, 2004
* A Love Song for Bobby Long, 2004
* The Notebook, 2004
* Ray, 2004
* Undertow, 2004
* Walking Tall, 2004
* 2001 Maniacs, 2005
* Beauty Shop, 2005
* Because of Winn-Dixie, 2005
* The Descent, 2005
* The Dukes of Hazzard, 2005
* Elizabethtown, 2005
* Forty Shades of Blue, 2005
* The Devil's Rejects, 2005
* Hustle & Flow, 2005
* Junebug, 2005
* Loggerheads, 2005
* The Skeleton Key, 2005
* All the King's Men, 2006
* Death Proof, 2006
* ATL, 2006
* Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, 2006
* Déjà Vu, 2006
* Hatchet, 2006
* Facing the Giants, 2006
* Glory Road, 2006
* The Hawk Is Dying, 2006
* Miami Vice, 2006
* Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, 2006
* Black Snake Moan, 2007
* Constellation, 2007
* The Great Debaters, 2007
* Hounddog, 2007
* Shotgun Stories, 2007
* No Country for Old Men, 2007
* There Will Be Blood, 2007
* Waitress, 2007
* War Eagle, Arkansas, 2007
* Ballast, 2008
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
* Fireproof, 2008
* Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, 2008
* Nights in Rodanthe, 2008
* The Secret Life of Bees, 2008
* Tennessee, 2008
* 12 Rounds, 2009
* Alabama Moon, 2009
* Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, 2009
* The Blind Side, 2009
* Brüno, 2009
* Crazy Heart, 2009
* Trash Humpers, 2009
* In the Electric Mist, 2009
* Little Chenier, 2009
* Mississippi Damned, 2009
* The Princess and the Frog, 2009

## 2010s

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* Country Strong, 2010
* Dear John, 2010
* Dirty Girl, 2010
* The Last Song, 2010
* Main Street, 2010
* Tucker & Dale vs Evil, 2010
* Winter's Bone, 2010
* The Conspirator, 2011
* Drive Angry, 2011
* Footloose, 2011
* The Help, 2011
* Joyful Noise, 2011
* Straw Dogs, 2011
* The Tree of Life, 2011
* Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012
* Come Morning, 2012
* Django Unchained, 2012
* Lawless, 2012
* The Lucky One, 2012
* Mighty Fine (2012)
* Mud, 2012
* The Paperboy, 2012
* Spring Breakers, 2012
* 12 Years a Slave, 2013
* As I Lay Dying, 2013
* Beautiful Creatures, 2013
* Safe Haven, 2013
* Joe, 2013
* The Best of Me, 2014
* Selma, 2014
* The Longest Ride, 2015
* Free State of Jones, 2016
* The Choice, 2016
* Masterminds, 2016
* Midnight Special, 2016
* Moonlight, 2016
* Baby Driver, 2017
* Mudbound, 2017
* The Beguiled, 2017
* Forever My Girl, 2018
* Green Book, 2018
* The Beach Bum, 2019
* Just Mercy, 2019
* Harriet, 2019
* Where the Crawdads Sing, 2022

## References

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* Langman, Larry and David Ebner (2001) Hollywood's Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31886-7