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Changing Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern usa
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America ...
Style: political, realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Plot: interracial relations, white male black female relationship, interracial marriage, biracial, miscegenation, racism, civil rights, love, interracial, interracial romance, supreme court, interracial couple ...
Time: 90s, 60s
Place: america, virginia, usa, southern usa, washington d.c.
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A Christmas Memory (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small-town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried.
Style: christmas classics, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, friendship, small town, family relations, buddies, love and romance, small town life, countryside, adult virgin, family life, family gatherings ...
Time: 1930s
Place: southern usa, alabama
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Perfect Harmony (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, adult
Plot: youth, friendship, coming of age, interracial relations, racism, dedicated educator, music, music band, society, lifestyle, friends, social relations ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
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Zelly and Me (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out the help of a rich suitor to take her and the orphan away when she realizes that the ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: orphan, nanny, betrayal, coming of age, family relations, mentally challenged, society, young heroes, youth, domestic disturbance, twins, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: virginia, southern usa
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Hamlet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: To be or not to be, etc.
Style: psychological, stylized, atmospheric, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, betrayal, tragic hero, tragic love, uncover truth, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, parents and children, shakespeare, interracial ...
Time: 90s
Place: southern usa
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Strange Fruit (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: New York attorney William Boyals has escaped the Louisiana bayou of his childhood, but he must return to investigate the death of a childhood friend who, like Boyals himself, was both black and gay.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: police corruption, racism, murder, small town, fighting the system, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, rebellion, legal, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new york, southern usa
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Alice (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Alice spends her days enslaved on a rural Georgia plantation restlessly yearning for freedom. After a violent clash with plantation owner Paul, Alice flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon ...
Style: independent film, historical drama
Plot: slavery, plantation, rape, civil rights, women, woman, black, deep south, revenge, highway, forest fire, diner ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 1850s
Place: georgia
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Gator (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After his release from prison, notorious ex-con and moonshine distiller Gator McKlusky moves in with his father in a cabin in the Okefenokee Swamp. His bootlegging plans are cut short, however, when a federal agent tells McKlusky that he will lose ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redneck, chase, violence, car chase, hicksploitation, talk show host, espionage, undercover, politics, corruption, ex convict, violent content ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: madagascar, usa
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Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: hicksploitation, revenge, strong female lead, redneck, foreclosure, car chase, small town, corrupt cop, motocross, motorcycle, explosives expert, father ...
Time: year 1976
Place: southern usa
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The Son (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain ...
Style: tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot: native american, oil tycoon, oil, showdown, racism, family business, modern western, wild west, modern west, money, problem solving, family problems ...
Time: victorian era, 2010s
Place: texas, southern usa, america
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Bloodlines (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The the backwoods of Kentucky, a demented family begin the process of cleaning up their "bloodline." Their family is led by Billy Bob Hackford, who in his madness abducts unsuspecting young women. As a sadistic sport, the family forces the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: inbreeding, held captive, kidnapping, kidnapper, captive, fight to the death, pregnant from rape, captivity, redneck, incest, sadistic killer, sadistic psychopath ...
Place: kentucky, southern usa
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Twist of Faith (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jacob Fisher, an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving behind his Jewish ...
Style: psychological, disturbing
Plot: interracial love, interracial relations, african american, single mother, tragic event, widower, interfaith relationship, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, loss of family, loss of wife ...
Place: southern usa, alabama
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
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: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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The Long Hot Summer (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Plot: drifter, summer, marital argument, horse, lust, outdoor sex, jail, argument, car accident, fire, passionate kiss, sheriff ...
Place: southern usa, mississippi
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The Gingerbread Man (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at a party celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the catering staff, Mallory Doss, discovers her car has been stolen. Having had a few drinks, Magruder offers to give her a lift ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom, courtroom drama, psychopath, twists and turns, plot twist, law, femme fatale, couples, legal, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: georgia, southern usa
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...tick... tick... tick... (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, black cinema
Plot: racism, blaxploitation, black cop, hidden treasure, black, racial prejudice, racial tension, gangster, small town, hit and run, discrimination, office ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: southern usa, mississippi
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The Adventures of Ociee Nash (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Ociee's true bravery, ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic, gothic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, mischievous children, farm, young heroes, starting over, lifestyle, single parent, family life, teaching the ways of the world, adoption, nanny ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
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The Loveless (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A small midwestern town descends into chaos with the arrival of a motorcycle gang.
Style: period piece, slasher, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, biker, bike, gang, murder, women, rock and roll, criminal activity, street gangster, on the road, erotica, suburbs ...
Time: year 1981, 50s, year 1960, year 1959, 1950s
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In ...
Style: political, epic, captivating, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Plot: civil rights, african american, racism, slavery, black, journalism, discrimination, blaxploitation, female protagonist, plantation, interracial relations, black lives matter ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 19th century, 1890s, 1920s ...
Place: southern usa, america, louisiana, usa, texas ...
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style: emotional, romantic, cute, period piece, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, corporal punishment, first love, age difference, childhood, love story, love, sisters, small town, farm, bittersweet, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1991, year 1957, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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Lifeforce (1985)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, erotic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, alien, zombie, supernatural, alien invasion, apocalypse, nude, mind control, space, monster, alien abduction, ufo ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
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Ghost Fever (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two policeman are sent on a routine assignment to serve an eviction notice. It becomes anything but run-of-the-mill when they become involved in the ghostly happenings.
Style: parody, spooky, independent film, sexy, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, ghost, zombie, american civil war, breakdance, family business, danger, mentally unstable, estate, curses spells and rituals, factory, silly humor ...
Time: year 1986, 19th century
Place: southern usa
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George Wallace (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. ...
Style: political, non fiction, captivating, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: politics, campaign, american politics, assassination attempt, president, biopic, politician, election, usa history, intrigue, civil rights, racism ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 1972, year 1965, year 1963 ...
Place: alabama, georgia, usa, america
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Love Field (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides ...
Style: romantic, light, touching, period piece, independent film ...
Plot: interracial romance, racism, road trip, chase, bittersweet, interracial relations, john f. kennedy, girl, airport, assassination, assassin, feminist ...
Time: 60s, year 1992, 20th century, year 1963, year 1968
Place: washington d.c., america, texas, usa, dallas texas
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Trilogy (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of ...
Style: anthology, independent film
Plot: boy, love, nanny, fear, christmas, mental illness, aunt nephew relationship, retirement, american south, memory, spinster, loneliness ...
Place: new york, alabama, manhattan new york city
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Purlie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), it is set ...
Plot: blaxploitation, african american, preacher, black american, minister, american south, cotton
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Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.
Style: touching, humorous, road movie, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, small town, music, obsession, loneliness, retirement, life philosophy, self discovery, musician's life, boat, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2003
Place: louisiana, germany, texas, east germany, austin texas ...
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Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, mumblecore ...
Plot: self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, shoplifting, suburbs, girl power, feminist, women, spring break, society ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida, tennessee, usa
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, sexual ...
Plot: military, voyeurism, gay, marriage, infidelity, obsession, sex, soldier, couples, lgbt, solace, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: georgia
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