Southern belle movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant southern belle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, feel good, touching, melancholic, dramatic and gothic films and TV shows about / with southern belle, storytelling, catastrophe, small town, runaway, culture clash, adaptation, women, dialogue and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as southern belle: Louisiana (1984), Beulah Land (1980), Hart of Dixie (2011), Something to Talk About (1995), Steel Magnolias (1989), Southern Belles (2005), Bad Girls (1994), The Golden Girls (1985), Wild at Heart (1990), The Notebook (2004).
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List of southern belle movies
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: France, Italy, Canada, USA
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
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 been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
Style:
southern gothic, period piece, period drama
Plot:
plantation, southern belle, american civil war, civil war, female protagonist, deep south, resilience, getting home, social class, power struggle, determination, class conflict ...
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 281 min.
TV show
Story:
This sweeping epic dramatized the lives of two Georgia families during the early-to-mid 1800s: the Kendricks, who resided on the Beulah Land plantation, and the Davises, who owned the Oaks plantation. Both families loved, prospered and lost during ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, epic, historical romance ...
Plot:
plantation, civil war, american civil war, slavery, southern belle, family conflict, social class, struggle, conflict, aristocracy, resilience, legacy ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, female doctor, young woman, social relations, doctor, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In one of her best-ever roles, Julia Roberts is Grace, whose reaction to the infidelities of Eddie (Dennis Quaid) turns the lives and loves of the people around her into something like falling dominoes. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick ...
Style:
satirical, talky, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
horse, love affair, adulterous husband, female protagonist, southern belle, women, family problems, family life, human nature, self discovery, parents and children, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
savannah georgia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, sweet, sad, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, christmas, wedding, small town, southern belle, halloween, family relations, best friend, strong female character, life philosophy, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bell and Belle want to break out of their trailer park lives and get up and out to the "Big City" of Atlanta. Just when they think they are on their way to getting a nest egg Bell falls for a handsome police officer named Rhett Butler.
Style:
feel good, not serious, humorous, ironic, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
partner, best friend, friends, social relations, couples, odd couple, society, buddies, misfit, farce, teenage life, family relations ...
Place:
georgia, atlanta georgia
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14K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
Style:
erotic, spaghetti western, anime, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
tough girl, prostitution, revenge, girl gang, rape, female protagonist, female gunfighter, cowgirl, outlaw gang, train robbery, ranch, u.s. marshal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
texas, oregon, usa, colorado, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
old woman, female protagonist, widow, senior citizen, sicilian, friendship, elderly, group of friends, dating, southern belle, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
florida, sicily, miami, atlanta georgia, brooklyn new york city ...
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112K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style:
surreal, sexy, road movie, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
road trip, murder, surrealism, violence, sex scene, forbidden love, rape, domineering mother, haunted by the past, dark humor, psychopath, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, new orleans, southern usa, austin texas, california ...
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679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
escape, senior citizen, aging, journey, on the road, dysfunctional family, small town, redemption, old age, homecoming, bus, cat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, austin texas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a sassy Southern belle is jilted at the altar by her fighter fiance, she puts on the boxing gloves to get revenge.
Style:
romantic comedy, humorous, lighthearted, comedy drama, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
boxing, revenge, southern belle, female protagonist, female empowerment, personal growth, women, retribution, competition, fish out of water, friendship, love triangle ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, light hearted, political, political comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, congress, politics, southern belle, fish out of water, sibling relationship, social commentary, dysfunctional family, adopted daughter, strong female presence, celebrity culture, president ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment ...
Style:
melancholic, southern gothic, tense, period piece
Plot:
sibling relationship, memory, family drama, illusion, frustration, southern belle, disabled character, symbolism, ambition, intimate, adaptation, urban ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Style:
humorous, stylized, captivating, black comedy, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, racism, murder, civil rights, segregation, murder trial, hopes, police, courtroom, aunt nephew relationship, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
alabama, america, usa, california, texas ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Hilarious Escapades of an Infamous Lover!
Style:
sex comedy, sensual, spaghetti western, independent film
Plot:
public nudity, sex party, orgy, multiple lovers, sexual pleasure, nudity, female pubic hair, casanova, pervert, sex dream, southern belle, group sex ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War.
Style:
bloody, slasher, grindhouse, scary, southern gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, american civil war, vengeance, maniac, exploitation, gory, murder, macabre, brutality, folk horror, sadism, mayor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
florida, southern usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
racism, elderly, civil rights, friendship, old age, master and servant, chauffeur, racial segregation, cemetery, segregation, elevator, gardening ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, year 1989 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, southern usa, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, intense, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, estrangement, playwright, relationships, women, friendship, corporal punishment, reconciliation, childhood memory, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, american south ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
southern usa, louisiana, new york, usa
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4K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, ...
Style:
sexy, anime, serious, realistic, light ...
Plot:
stripper, politics, political corruption, forbidden love, politician, governor, civil rights, strip show, eccentricity, government, southern belle, scandal ...
Time:
year 1989, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa, latin america, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.
Style:
inspirational, independent film, touching, realistic, political ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, civil rights, segregation, african american, friendship, ku klux klan, women, black history, racial discrimination, social commentary, race issues, black ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 20th century, 50s
Place:
america, usa, alabama, southern usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style:
independent film, sentimental, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, physical therapy, paraplegic, black, animal abuse, black man, girl power, psychopath, feminism ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, california
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14K
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, vietnam war, childhood, father son relationship, friendship, boy, child, children, youth, bittersweet, boyhood ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, vietnam, asia, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, coming of age, parents and children, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, pedophile, physical abuse, child molestation, sexual assault ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
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51K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot:
pregnancy, domestic violence, small town, abusive husband, lovers, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, cooking and food, infidelity, marital problem, single mother, doctor ...
Time:
90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Style:
southern gothic, gothic, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
insanity, haunted by the past, murder, deep south, hagsploitation, mental disorder, plot twist, psychotic woman, bullying, female villain, aging, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1964, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
southern usa, louisiana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, domineering mother, adaptation, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, cripple, mother ...
Time:
year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future, 70s ...
Place:
tennessee, usa, california
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