Romance, Drama, History
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
Naked Paradise
The Story of Temple Drake
Greased Lightning
The Robe
Female Slaves Revenge
Deliverance Creek
The Beguiled
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
The Legend of Van Dorn
The Last American Hero
Crazy in Alabama
The Four Feathers
My Cousin Vinny
Glory
Fitzcarraldo
Manderlay
Palm Trees in the Snow
The Skeleton Key
Sahara
SIMILAR MOVIES
Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story
IMDB 6 | Aug , 1985
A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.Naked Paradise
IMDB 3.8 | Jan , 1957
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.The Story of Temple Drake
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.Greased Lightning
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1977
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.The Robe
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1953
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.Female Slaves Revenge
IMDB 1.8 | Jan , 1997
After a slave uprising, 10 black mistresses of a white landowner decide to capture their master after he refuses to turn over his ill-gained wealth. A trial to decide his fate ensues.Deliverance Creek
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2014
At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family's land by any means necessary. When the corrupt local bank pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it's better to be lawful or to survive.The Beguiled
IMDB 7 | Jan , 1971
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2008
Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.The Legend of Van Dorn
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
The story of General Earl Van Dorn, a brilliant military leader for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.The Last American Hero
IMDB 5.7 | Jul , 1973
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.Crazy in Alabama
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1999
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.The Four Feathers
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2002
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.My Cousin Vinny
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 1992
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!Glory
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1989
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.Fitzcarraldo
IMDB 7.6 | Mar , 1982
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.Manderlay
IMDB 6.9 | Jun , 2005
In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.Palm Trees in the Snow
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 2015
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.The Skeleton Key
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 2005
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.Sahara
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 2005
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.