Stars & Bars: Films of the American South

By: Anastas​ia

Films set in the Deep South (Texas excluded, you could make a whole list of Texas films alone.) Southern Gothic, the land of Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Truman Capote. Recommendations please!

• 01
  The Birth of a Nation
  D.W. Griffith
• 02
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 03
  Show Boat
  James Whale
• 04
  Jezebel
  William Wyler
• 05
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 06
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Richard Thorpe
• 07
  Way Down South
  Bernard Vorhaus
• 08
  Sergeant York
  Howard Hawks
• 09
  Louisiana Story
  Robert J. Flaherty
• 10
  Song of the South
  Harve Foster
• 11
  The Southerner
  Jean Renoir
• 12
  The Yearling
  Clarence Brown
• 13
  The Red Badge of Courage
  John Huston
• 14
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  Elia Kazan
• 15
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 16
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Richard Brooks
• 17
  The Long, Hot Summer
  Martin Ritt
• 18
  Inherit the Wind
  Stanley Kramer
• 19
  Wind Across the Everglades
  Nicholas Ray
• 20
  Wild River
  Elia Kazan
• 21
  Cape Fear
  J. Lee Thompson
• 22
  The Miracle Worker
  Arthur Penn
• 23
  The Fugitive Kind
  Sidney Lumet
• 24
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  Robert Mulligan
• 25
  Cool Hand Luke
  Stuart Rosenberg
• 26
  Easy Rider
  Dennis Hopper
• 27
  In the Heat of the Night
  Norman Jewison
• 28
  Deliverance
  John Boorman
• 29
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 30
  Wise Blood
  John Huston
• 31
  Coal Miner's Daughter
  Michael Apted
• 32
  The Color Purple
  Steven Spielberg
• 33
  Daughters of the Dust
  Julie Dash
• 34
  Fried Green Tomatoes
  Jon Avnet
• 35
  Vernon, Florida
  Errol Morris
• 36
  Bastard Out of Carolina
  Anjelica Huston
• 37
  Sling Blade
  Billy Bob Thornton
• 38
  Ride with the Devil
  Ang Lee
• 39
  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Joel Coen
• 40
  Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
  Andrew Douglas
• 41
  Rejoice and Shout
  Don McGlynn
• 42
  Goin' South
  Jack Nicholson
• 43
  Hurry Sundown
  Otto Preminger
• 44
  Down by Law
  Jim Jarmusch