Southern gothic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant southern gothic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out southern gothic, atmospheric, serious, suspense, tense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with small town, violence, murder, storytelling, death, dialogue, brutality, deadly, deep south and runaway plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as southern gothic: Sharp Objects (2018), No Country for Old Men (2007), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), True Detective (2014), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Skeleton Key (2005), Mud (2012), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Hills Have Eyes (2006).
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List of southern gothic movies
136K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls.
Style:
psychological, suspense, bleak, southern gothic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, haunted by the past, small town, mother daughter relationship, hometown, alcoholic, reporter, self harm, self mutilation, journalist, investigative reporter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria, missouri, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, shooting, serial killer, peril, desert, human nature, brutality, death, sheriff, cruelty, bounty hunter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, america, austin texas ...
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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, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style:
southern gothic, sexy, sexual, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
military, murder, american south, voyeur, mental illness, stallion, adultery, voyeurism, sexuality, gay, stalking, boxing match ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
long island, georgia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style:
neo noir, anthology, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, investigation, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, drinking problem, partners against crime, female nudity, troubled ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
louisiana, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style:
southern gothic, emotional, intense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adultery, hollywood, betrayal, true love, loneliness, drug addiction, character study, tragedy, justice, movie star, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, california, london
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
plot twist, occult, ghost, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, rite, ritual, black magic ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2005, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, southern gothic, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, closeted homosexual, gay interest, investigation, murder, murder trial, journalism, voodoo, gay, justice, american south ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1997
Place:
savannah georgia, southern usa, usa, georgia, new orleans
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199K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style:
suspense, sweet, southern gothic, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, bittersweet, ex convict, first love, fugitives, teenage boy, love story, obsession, hopes, river ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, arkansas, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style:
political thriller, southern gothic, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, small town, police, civil rights, african american, ku klux klan, murder, politics, deep south, investigation, racial prejudice, racial segregation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, 60s, year 1988
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, america, usa, canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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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: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, southern gothic, detective, rough ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, swamp, police investigation, ghost, deep south, law enforcement, hallucination, uncover truth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, civil war ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 60s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa, texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Style:
neo noir, harsh, realistic, rough, gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, drug dealer, small town, justice, vigilante, disappearance, deadend life, vigilantism, financial problem, violent, brothers ...
Time:
year 2013, 80s, 20th century, year 2008, 2010s ...
Place:
new jersey, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana, appalachia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Style:
harsh, psychological, stylized, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
motorcycle, haunted by the past, bank robbery, loner, bank robber, father son relationship, police, money problems, family relations, corruption, robbery, criminal ...
Time:
year 2012, future, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small ...
Style:
southern gothic, gothic, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
loneliness, deaf, racism, grief, coming of age, disability, suicide, sign language, deafness, drifter, african american, doctor ...
Time:
60s
Place:
southern usa, usa, alabama, georgia
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, southern gothic, thought provoking, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
racism, african american, misery, poverty, civil rights, world war two, post war, drunkenness, black, farm, interracial romance, black history ...
Time:
year 1941, year 2017, 1940s, year 1945, year 1939 ...
Place:
mississippi, belgium, indiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style:
southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, railroad, mother daughter relationship, adolescence, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, boarding house, mental disorder, mother and daughter, deep south, swing, sad ending ...
Time:
1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, tennessee, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of ...
Style:
surreal, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, brother brother relationship, surrealism, supernatural, suicide, animal abuse, nudity, abusive mother, cemetery, molestation, hair loss ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
idaho, usa, midwest
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Style:
southern gothic, melancholic, tension, intense, atmospheric
Plot:
small town, passion, forbidden love, forbidden romance, infidelity, love triangle, character study, loneliness, sexual awakening, tragic romance, isolation, class conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mississippi
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, manic, murder, obsession, stalker, serial killer, family in danger, swamp ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are ...
Style:
light, cynical, ironic, funny, southern gothic ...
Plot:
rich, businessman, family relations, family business, rivalry, secret, escapades, death, feud, brother sister relationship, vengeance, religion ...
Place:
usa, new orleans
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The sheriff of a colorful small town finds her red state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent to help her solve a horrific crime.
Style:
psychological, southern gothic, thrilling, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
sheriff, investigation, small town, female protagonist, murder mystery, secrets, private investigator, police investigation, police detective, forensics, female detective, crime investigation ...
Place:
kentucky
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the hazy mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family.
Style:
southern gothic, bleak, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, american south, dark past, secrets, escapades, brutality, fear, paranoia, life is a bitch, family in danger, family problems, danger ...
Place:
appalachia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style:
southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas. It focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while detailing certain sightings of the monster. This title was a drive-in B movie favorite for ...
Style:
independent film, scary, grindhouse, southern gothic, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
bigfoot, sasquatch, found footage, cryptozoology, exploitation, swamp, cryptid, danger, small town, creature feature, legend, dead animal ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 1950s, 80s
Place:
arkansas, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, tokyo
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129K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes ...
Style:
captivating, serious, crime drama, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
justice, gunfight, u.s. marshal, fighting crime, officer, lone wolves, drug lord, small town, shooting, tough law enforcer, ex convict, family feud ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kentucky, south america, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
Style:
southern gothic, game show, black comedy, gothic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
plantation, social commentary, racial tension, satire, irony, moral ambiguity, class conflict, interracial family, bittersweet, decadence, nostalgia, downbeat ending ...
Place:
mississippi, new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, 'one buck' takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.
Style:
indie film, southern gothic, melancholic, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost hunter, small town, poverty, social commentary, everyday life, community, realism, symbolism, class struggle, character study, humanity, economics ...
Place:
louisiana
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