Films set in Appalachia

2013 film directed by Shane Black

1993 film by Harold Ramis

1981 film by Sam Raimi

2003 film directed by Anthony Minghella

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to whitewater canoe the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.

2010 film directed by Tony Scott

1999 film by Joe Johnston

2012 film directed by John Hillcoat

2023 film directed by Elizabeth Banks

1941 biographical film directed by Howard Hawks

2017 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2007 film by Paul Haggis

Kalifornia is a 1993 American road psychological thriller film directed by Dominic Sena in his feature film directorial debut. It stars Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, and Michelle Forbes. The film tells the story of a journalist (Duchovny) and his photographer girlfriend (Forbes) traveling cross-country to research serial killings, who unwittingly carpool with a psychopath (Pitt) and his childlike girlfriend (Lewis).

1995 film directed by Peter Hyams

1994 film directed by Michael Apted

1997 film directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá

1960 film by Stanley Kramer

1960 film by Elia Kazan

1984 film by Mark Rydell

1965 American Civil War film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

Sommersby is a 1993 period romantic drama film directed by Jon Amiel from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Sarah Kernochan, adapted from the historical account of the 16th-century French peasant Martin Guerre. Based on the 1982 French film The Return of Martin Guerre, the film stars Richard Gere and Jodie Foster, with Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Clarice Taylor, Frankie Faison, and R. Lee Ermey in supporting roles. Set in the Reconstruction era, it depicts a farmer returning home from the American Civil War, with his wife beginning to suspect that he is an impostor while also falling in l

1971 film by Monte Hellman

2000 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2017 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

1989 film by John Irvin

1998 film by Kevin Hooks

2009 film by Joel Schumacher

1987 film by John Sayles

2024 film directed by Brian Taylor

2004 film by Asia Argento

2009 film by Aaron Schneider

2013 film by James Franco

1996 film by Anjelica Huston

2014 film by Sara Colangelo

1996 film by Tom DiCillo

Songcatcher is a 2000 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. It is about a musicologist researching and collecting Appalachian folk music in the mountains of western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle. The film grossed $3 million in limited theatrical release in the United States, which was generally consi

1958 film by Arthur Ripley

2019 film directed by Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage

2013 film by David M. Rosenthal

Moonrunners is a 1975 action comedy film starring James Mitchum, about a Southern family that runs bootleg liquor. It was reworked four years later into the popular long-running television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and the two productions share some similarities. Mitchum had co-starred with his father, Robert Mitchum, in the similar drive-in favorite Thunder Road 18 years earlier, which also focused upon moonshine-running bootleggers using fast cars to elude federal agents. Moonrunners, a B movie, was filmed in 1973 and awaited release for over a year. Its soundtrack reflects the outlaw mus

Sun-Up is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Goulding based upon a successful 1924 play of the same name by Lula Vollmer. The film stars Lucille La Verne, replaying her successful New York stage role, Pauline Starke, and Conrad Nagel.

2007 television film directed by Gary Yates

1970 film by Richard Quine

American period drama series

1973 film by Richard C. Sarafian

2009 film directed by Dominic Murphy

1949 film by Irving Reis

2019 film directed by Paul Harrill

1974 film by William A. Graham