Film Series
Southern Gothic
Uncontrollable passions, shocking secrets, feuding families, and psychotic grandes dames: what strange goings-on lurk beneath the veneer of Southern respectability? This series brings together some of the wildest, lustiest, sweatiest, and most perverse tales of the macabre ever to emanate from below the Mason-Dixon.
Clint Eastwood sleeps with the enemy in this chilling, Civil War-set art-western.
Paul Newman goes toe-to-toe with Orson Welles in this deep dish Southern soap opera.
Brando and Taylor star in John Huston’s tale of repressed desires and freaky fetishes.
Jean Renoir’s first American film brings him deep into the eerie backwaters of Georgia.
Sex, lies, and voodoo: this family drama is one of the most distinctive films of the 90s.
John Huston’s acerbic and profound adaptation of the Flannery O’Connor classic.
Elia Kazan unleashes a psychosexual cyclone in sun-baked rural Mississippi.
Robert Mitchum is evil incarnate in Charles Laughton’s all-American masterpiece.
Clint Eastwood’s atmospheric adaptation of the true crime bestseller.
Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton star in this gothic spellbinder.
Bette Davis goes over-the-top batty in this deliriously demented slice of Grand Guignol.
Charles Burnett’s poetic realist fable stars Danny Glover as the houseguest from hell.
Marlon Brando oozes animal magnetism in this fever pitch adaptation of the stage classic.
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman sizzle in this sordid saga of epic family dysfunction.
Gay panic, incest, cannibalism: this Tennessee Williams shocker has it all.
Buñuel’s English-language tale of sex, sin, and racism on an untamed South Carolina island.