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

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

1900s

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

1910s

• 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

• 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

• Abraham Lincoln, 1930
• Tol'able David, 1930
• " Chiefs (miniseries)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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