Mississippi River Movies

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a...

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...

A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and...

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously...

Sharks attack a fish rodeo on the Mississippi River, and it is up to a group of locals to stop them.

A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog,...

Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor...

Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the...

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

Huck Finn is a homeless boy because he was abandoned by his father, who left the village for over a year. Although he lives in a barrel and the...

European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River....

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.

A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.