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1. Django Unchained (2012)
R | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington
Votes: 1,700,188 | Gross: $162.81M
2. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
R | 123 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst
Votes: 348,267 | Gross: $105.26M
3. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 742,489 | Gross: $56.67M
4. Mansfield Park (1999)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.
Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Hannah Taylor Gordon
Votes: 25,900 | Gross: $4.76M
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson
Votes: 53,501 | Gross: $17.57M
6. Antebellum (2020)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston
Votes: 29,871
7. Song of the South (1946)
G | 94 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear.
Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten
Votes: 15,272 | Gross: $63.72M
8. Chevalier (2022)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Son of an African slave and a French farmer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, achieves an unthinkable position in society as a famous violinist, composer and fencer, in addition to experiencing an ill-fated love affair.
Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo
Votes: 6,893
9. Auntie Mame (1958)
Approved | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
Director: Morton DaCosta | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark
Votes: 12,730 | Gross: $23.30M
10. The Undefeated (1969)
Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel
Votes: 7,576
11. Queen (1993)
TV-14 | 282 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The son of a plantation owner has a daughter named Queen, with a slave. As Queen grows, she is faced with the struggle of trying to fit in with the troubled world around her.
Stars: Ann-Margret, Patricia Clarkson, Tim Daly, Ossie Davis
Votes: 1,724
12. Alice (2022)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.
Director: Krystin Ver Linden | Stars: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles
Votes: 3,284
13. The Naked Jungle (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad
Votes: 4,416
14. Cobra Verde (1987)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile
Votes: 8,465
15. Island in the Sun (1957)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance
This drama set during the 1950s on a British-ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Joan Collins
Votes: 1,417 | Gross: $8.00M
16. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Votes: 13,693
17. Elephant Walk (1954)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch, Abraham Sofaer
Votes: 2,737
18. Across the Pacific (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton
Votes: 5,455
19. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,634
20. Before the Rains (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 2,174 | Gross: $1.04M
21. Green Fire (1954)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas, John Ericson
Votes: 1,521
22. Sankofa (1993)
125 min | Drama
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and ... See full summary »
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Kofi Ghanaba, Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Alexandra Duah, Nick Medley
Votes: 810 | Gross: $2.69M
23. Convicts (1991)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Western
Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois
Votes: 733
24. Sherina's Adventure (2000)
TV-G | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Adventure of a little girl who just moved to a new town and meet a new friends.
Director: Riri Riza | Stars: Sherina Munaf, Derby Romero, Didi Petet, Ucy Nurul
Votes: 1,029
25. Drums in the Deep South (1951)
Passed | 87 min | Western
Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton MacLane
Votes: 432
26. Honolulu (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 761
27. Dragonard (1988)
R | 93 min | Drama
On an 18th century Caribbean island run by debauched colonial plantation owners, an enslaved Scotsman joins a slave revolt.
Director: Gérard Kikoïne | Stars: Oliver Reed, Eartha Kitt, Annabel Schofield, Claudia Udy
Votes: 352
28. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
TV-G | 78 min | Drama
A tenant farmer's son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner's seductive daughter.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis, Dorothy Jordan, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,882
29. Singapore Woman (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance
A switched-locale remake of "Dangerous (1935)" about a jinxed, hard-luck dame , Vicki Moore (Brenda Marshall), and the men who show her that life is worth living no matter how ponderous and complicated.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Brenda Marshall, David Bruce, Virginia Field, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 149
30. Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (1957)
37 min | Short, Drama, History
This is a 37-minute orientation film, filmed in the spring of 1956, for visitors to historic Colonial Williamsburg, and photographed in the area restored by the Rockefeller Foundation. The ... See full summary »
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Jack Lord, Leora Dana, Margery Maude, Richard Striker
Votes: 160
31. Guns of Darkness (1962)
102 min | Drama, Thriller
An English couple and a deposed ruler head for the border during a South American revolution.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Caron, David Niven, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu
Votes: 420
32. White Heat (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of ... See full summary »
Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright, David Newell
Votes: 72
33. The Tuttles of Tahiti (1942)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
After a long absence from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen
Votes: 395
34. Windom's Way (1957)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry, Robert Flemyng
Votes: 274
35. The Toy Wife (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, History, Romance
The beautiful, frivolous wife of a plantation owner in antebellum Louisiana proves unsatisfactory at running the household, leading her serious-minded husband to enlist the help of her unmarried sister.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Luise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 401
36. Way Down South (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Music
In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt ... See full summary »
Directors: Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Bobby Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Steffi Duna
Votes: 254
37. Outpost in Malaya (1952)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1950s, in British-controlled Malaya, rubber-tree planters face many difficulties and dangers, including bandit attacks and nationalist guerrilla ambushes.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Ram Gopal
Votes: 361
38. Black Harvest (1992)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. His relations with the local Ganiga tribe who work his coffee plantation on their land are ... See full summary »
Directors: Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly | Star: Joe Leahy
Votes: 369
39. Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, War
A ragtag band of civilians and military personnel evade the Japanese in the Philippines, utilising the so-called USS Frankenstein.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: David Brian, Lynette Bernay, Norman Wright, Harry Chang
Votes: 91
40. Jungle Menace (1937)
Passed | 308 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (... See full summary »
Directors: Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Stars: Frank Buck, Sasha Siemel, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston
Votes: 46
41. Instant Love (1964)
81 min | Comedy
Pamela Jones, an American actress on holiday in Brazil meets coffee plantation owner Claudio DeSantis, falls in love with him and they get married. After living at his ranch for some time ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sylbert | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Rhonda Fleming, Odete Lara, William Redfield
Votes: 84
42. Thundering Dawn (1923)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Garson | Stars: Winter Hall, J. Warren Kerrigan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Tom Santschi
43. The Spirit of '76 (1908)
Short, Action, Drama
During the American Revolution, an American girl, played by Betty Harte, hides her soldier sweetheart, played by Hobart Bosworth, when British Redcoats occupy her plantation. Through a ruse... See full summary »
Director: Francis Boggs | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Betty Harte, Tom Santschi
Votes: 21
44. They're Off (1917)
50 min | Drama
Rita Hackett's father has unscrupulously gained possession of an old southern mansion. The owner, Randolph Manners, is evicted and takes up residence in the training quarters on the estate.... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Enid Bennett, Rowland V. Lee, Melbourne MacDowell, Walt Whitman
45. Le sang du flamboyant (1981)
Drama
Director: François Migeat | Stars: Sanvi Panou, Emilie Benoît, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Marc Henchoz
46. The Tar Heel Warrior (1917)
50 min | Drama
Colonel Dabney Mills, whose Southern plantation is heavily mortgaged, makes a trip to New York hoping to borrow money from James Adams, his granddaughter Anna Belle's husband. When the ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Walt Whitman, Ann Forrest, William Shaw, James McLaughlin
47. Unusual Occupations (II) (1941)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
Theodor 'Dr. Seuss' Geisel making models of his fictitious beasts. Also: airline stewardess testing; the world typing speed champion.
Director: Jerry Fairbanks | Stars: Ken Carpenter, Dr. Seuss
Votes: 10
48.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
(1992)
Approved | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The personal development of George Washington is the focus as Producer David Sutherland brings to life a uniquely human Washington who transformed himself from social climber into a patriot willing to give up everything for a higher cause.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: David McCullough, Robert Dawidoff, Thad Tate, Paul Longmore
Votes: 51
49.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
The Doll of Death
(1973)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
During the colonial era in the British West Indies, bitter plantation owner Alex Brandon uses voodoo to try to get revenge on his runaway bride Sheila Trent's ex lover Raphael, after she elopes with Raphael.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Alejandro Rey, Murray Matheson, Barry Atwater
Votes: 229
50.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Dead Wait
(1991)
Not Rated | 29 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Red Buckley is a natural red head in search of a one-of-a-kind black pearl. He gets a job on a plantation owned by Mr. Duval where the pearl is said to be. Shown to his room in Duvall's ... See full summary »
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, John Rhys-Davies, Vanity, James Remar
Votes: 932