List of Movies - Southern drama

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war. In the post–WWII South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hier...

TV Series (2016-2018). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Based on the novel series by Joe R. Lansdale where best friends Hap Collins, a white ex-con (James Purefoy) and Leonard Pine (Michael Kenneth Williams, a black, openly gay Vietnam vet...

Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing co...

Set during the Civil War, THE FREE STATE OF JONES tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newton Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Opposed to both slavery and secession, Knight launched an ...

An actor unlucky in work, money and love goes back home to the deep south to help out during a family crisis and is inspired to find his true voice as his mother is finally finding hers.

An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.

Obsessed with heavy metal, dirt bike racing and partaking in the occasional act of vandalism with his band of delinquents, the behavior of 13-year-old Jacob Wilson (Josh Wiggins) has begun to raise concerns around town, especially...

Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new series on HBO that follows the lives of detectives on various cases. Each season ...

This drama captures the lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner author William Faulkner and considered among the 2...

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.

Supernatural star-crossed romance, a small town full of secrets, and a dash of Southern gothic intrigue. That’s the recipe for Beautiful Creatures, the latest movie offering for theTwilight set. Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love ...

Based on the 1930 classic by Faulkner, it is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.

In the 70s, a reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

M'Lynn (Queen Latifah) and her only daughter Shelby (Condola Rashad) are preparing for Shelby's wedding to Jackson (Tory Kittles).