89 Films & TV Shows Set In Alabama
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The Jesse Owens Story
Ohio Illinois Alabama 🇩🇪 Germany The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sBased on the inspiring true story — The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more.
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Back Roads
AlabamaRunning from the past, and backing into love. — A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
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Smokey and the Bandit
Arkansas Texas 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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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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Fantasia chez les ploucs
AlabamaSagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noonan et de son fils Billy. Une jeune strip-teaseuse et son compagnon gangster viennent troubler leur tranquillité.
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The Honeymoon Killers
Michigan New York AlabamaLove is a bitch ... called Martha. — Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Alabama The 1930sThe rare film story of a father who must expose his children to a small town's outraged passions… and can only protect them with his love. — Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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The Miracle Worker
AlabamaAn emotional earthquake! — The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
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The Phenix City Story
Alabama The 1950sALABAMA'S CITY OF SIN AND SHAME! — Phil Karlson's docudrama based on the notorious Phenix City -- a city known for its gambling, crime and prostitution rackets.
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Bright Road
AlabamaTHE AWARD STORY from The Ladies' Home Journal has become the most unusual picture of the year. — Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Alabama The 1810sROUGHER, TOUGHER, MORE ROMANTIC THAN EVER! — John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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Another Part of the Forest
Alabama The 1880s The 1870s The 1860sThat fascinating family from Broadway's most shocking play! — This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
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The Little Foxes
Alabama The 1900s...the film version of the stage hit, as the ruthless beauty whose ambition spelt the doom of three men — The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?
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A Lady of Chance
New York New Jersey AlabamaA con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.