Southern Gothic films

2009 animated film directed by John Musker and Ron Clements

2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

1994 film by Neil Jordan

1962 film by Robert Mulligan

1951 film directed by Elia Kazan

1991 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2003 film by Tim Burton

1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The film stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate. Although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.

1990 US film by David Lynch

1955 film by Charles Laughton

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.

1996 film by Joel Schumacher

1986 film by Jim Jarmusch

1987 film by Alan Parker

2013 film by Park Chan-wook

2013 film by Richard LaGravenese

1962 film directed by J. Lee Thompson

2001 film by Marc Forster

2004 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

2016 film directed by Tom Ford

2020 film directed by António Campos

1956 film directed by Douglas Sirk

1941 film by William Wyler

2012 film directed by John Hillcoat

1959 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

2017 film directed by Sofia Coppola

2005 film by Iain Softley

2012 film by Jeff Nichols

1996 film by Billy Bob Thornton

2019 film by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz

2022 film directed by Olivia Newman

1997 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2001 film by Bill Paxton

2006 film directed by Craig Brewer

1958 film by Martin Ritt

1971 film by Don Siegel

1981 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1956 film by Elia Kazan

1962 film directed by Richard Brooks

2012 film by Lee Daniels

1957 film by Edward Dmytryk

2011 film by William Friedkin

2023 film directed by Blitz Bazawule

2000 film directed by Sam Raimi

1967 US film by John Huston

1981 film by Walter Hill

2004 film by Shainee Gabel

2010 film directed by Michael Winterbottom

1968 film by Robert Ellis Miller

1960 film by Elia Kazan

1964 film by Robert Aldrich

1982 film by Paul Schrader

1984 film by Mark Rydell

1959 film by Sidney Lumet

1947 film by John Cromwell

2005 film by Phil Morrison

2005 film by Terry Gilliam