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The Jerk
Mississippi The 1970sA rags to riches to rags story. — After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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Being There
North CarolinaGetting there is half the fun; being there is all of it! — A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."
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The Muppet Movie
Florida Georgia The 1970sMore entertaining than humanly possible — A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
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The Rose
Tennessee The 1960sShe gave and gave, until she had nothing left to give — Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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The Great Santini
South Carolina The 1960sThe bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him. — As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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Norma Rae
North Carolina The 1970sThe story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right. — Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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Wise Blood
Georgia The 1970sAn American Masterpiece! — A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
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The Visitor
GeorgiaThey know we are here... — An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
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The Evictors
Louisiana The 1940sIt was a small Louisiana town where people live and love and die and no one ever thought of locking their doors… except in the Monroe house. — In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…
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Hot Stuff
FloridaYou can't turn this mob over to the cops. They are the cops. — When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
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Gal Young 'Un
FloridaProhibition days in Florida's piney woods... — Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After energetically courting her, Mattie marries Trax, who before long brings home a young woman to be their housekeeper, but it is obvious that she is to be his mistress. When Trax leaves on business, the two women each contemplate how they are being exploited and Mattie comes up with a plan of her own.
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Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000
North CarolinaA documentary on the Wilmington 10, 9 afro-Americans and 1 white woman who were unjustly imprisoned.
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Pretty Baby
Louisiana The 1910sIn 1917, in the red-light district of New Orleans, they called her "Pretty Baby" — Hattie, a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet. When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
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Mardi Gras Massacre
LouisianaEveryone is celebrating nobody hears the screams of the victims for the sacrifice. — Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
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Casey's Shadow
LouisianaThis crazy mixed-up family doesn't stand a chance of winning a million bucks. Wanna bet? — Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
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A Real American Hero
Tennessee The 1970sWhen two boys are killed and two girls are blinded for life in a tragic accident, Buford Pusser, the town sheriff, is determined to get revenge. Though he must bend the law, Pusser is resolved to get the bootleg booze and dope king of the county who provided the poisoned moonshine that caused the accident. Based on a Real-Life Story (i.e. another version of Walking Tall (1973)).
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The Great Bank Hoax
GeorgiaGod Bless America. But grab what you can, just in case. — When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.
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Five Days from Home
LouisianaA gentle man. A desperate man. — A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
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Summer of My German Soldier
GeorgiaPatty Bergen is a teenager in a Jewish family living in the American South during World War II. Patty feels like an outcast even in her own family and is unable to understand why her father can't seem to love her. Her town eventually becomes host to a prisoner of war camp. A young german soldier escapes from this camp, and Patty finds him hiding in her secret places in the woods outside of town. After getting to know him she ends up harboring him from his captors, and, in the way of many adolescents, falls in love with him. Patty knows what she is risking to help him, but in his company she feels important, special, and respected as she has never been. In the end, his regard lifts her self-esteem and helps her to face the heartbreaking events to come.
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Superdome
LouisianaIt's The Biggest Event Of The Year - The Superbowl! Thousands of Men and Women Seeking Excitement, Glamour and Romance ... But A Desperate Killer Threatens To Turn It Into A Nightmare. — It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into the firm has been told that if he doesn't get him, he will be out. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's a killer running around. It seems that the syndicate doesn't want the highly favored Cougars to win. They tried to get the team's trainer to drug or incapacitate some players, and when he refuses he is killed. So, the team's manager has to try and find out who the killer is, before he does some real damage.
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The Crash of Flight 401
Florida The 1970sTrue story recounting the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades while on approach to Miami in December 1972. Accurate in many respects, the movie goes through the events leading up to the crash, the crash itself, and the rescue effort afterwards.
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Airport '77
FloridaFlight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle... passengers still alive, trapped underwater... — Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
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Smokey and the Bandit
Arkansas Mississippi Alabama GeorgiaWhat we have here is a total lack of respect for the law! — A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
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The Rescuers
LouisianaTwo tiny agents vs. the world's wickedest woman in a dazzling animated adventure! — What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss Bianca respond to orphan Penny's call for help. The two mice search for clues with the help of an old cat named Rufus.
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Crime Busters
FloridaHill and Spencer! They're a pair of car-crashing, womanizing, rough-housing loudmouths... and they're the good guys! — An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
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Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
FloridaA master assassin, bent on blood! — Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determined to stop Togo no matter the cost. The result is an explosive adventure through the seamy, violent streets of Hong Kong.
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Black Sunday
FloridaIt could be tomorrow! — An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.
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September 30, 1955
Arkansas The 1950sIt was a date that would change their lives forever. — Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a young man who idolized the rising star. Racked with grief, Jimmy holds a vigil that quickly devolves into a drunken spectacle with its own catastrophic consequences. Dennis Quaid also stars in "September 30, 1955": a day that forever changed the lives of many.
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Powers of Ten
FloridaA scientific film essay, narrated by Phil Morrison. A set of pictures of two picnickers in a park, with the area of each frame one-tenth the size of the one before. Starting from a view of the entire known universe, the camera gradually zooms in until we are viewing the subatomic particles on a man's hand.
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The Guy From Harlem
FloridaHe's Clean ... Mean ... A Fighting Machine! — Tough streetwise private investigator Al Connors, who works in Florida but originally hails from Harlem, is hired by the CIA to guard a visiting African princess. Moreover, Connors uses all his sharp street smarts and fierce fighting skills to find another woman who's been abducted by the evil Big Daddy.
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Thunder and Lightning
FloridaIt's 250 proof fun! - as they bust up the biggest moonshine racket in the country. — A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall
Tennessee The 1970sUnfortunately, a man who walks tall makes an awfully good target. — This is the story of Buford Pusser's final days; not only of his life, but also as Sheriff. It seems that times are changing, and the once adoring people of Pusser's town now fear him and feel like it's time to make a change. There are also some officials who feel the same way and are using every means to get rid of Pusser.
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Scalpel
Louisiana GeorgiaHer face was his fortune. — A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
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Jimmy the C
GeorgiaPresident Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.
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Return to Boggy Creek
LouisianaThree children and two adults become trapped in the woods during a hurricane and it is up to a Bigfoot-like creature called 'Big Bay-Ty' to come to their rescue.
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Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
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All the President's Men
Florida The 1970sThe most devastating detective story of this century. — During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Richard Nixon to resign from his post.
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Obsession
Louisiana The 1970s The 1950sA bizarre story of love. — New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
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Stay Hungry
AlabamaIf you've got an appetite for life: — A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
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Squirm
Georgia The 1970sThis was the night of the CRAWLING TERROR! — At the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious flesh-eaters. Sure enough, a storm that night causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.
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The Gumball Rally
North CarolinaIt's a hilarious coast-to-coast, 180 mile-an-hour, go-for-broke, outrageous road race with the world's most expensive cars. And it's all just for glory and a gumball machine. — A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
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The Savage Bees
LouisianaIn this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
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Eaten Alive
LouisianaMeet the maniac & his friend — A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
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Ode to Billy Joe
Mississippi The 1950sWhat the song didn't tell you, the movie will. — Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Arkansas The 1940sIn 1946 this man killed five people... Today he still lurks the streets of Texarkana, Ark. — A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Florida The 1860sThe richest adventure of them all — In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
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Leadbelly
Louisiana The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sYou can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly! — The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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Drum
Louisiana The 19th CenturyMANDINGO lit the fuse... DRUM is the explosion! — A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
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