Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "death", "plantation"

1. Apocalypse Now (1979)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 710,981 | Gross: $83.47M

2. 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: 1,697,400 | Gross: $162.81M

3. 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: 347,815 | Gross: $105.26M

4. Cloud Atlas (2012)

R | 172 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 374,570 | Gross: $27.11M

5. 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: 741,784 | Gross: $56.67M

6. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 156,196 | Gross: $95.64M

7. The Lost City of Z (2016)

PG-13 | 141 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland

Votes: 99,550 | Gross: $8.58M

8. The Skeleton Key (2005)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands

Votes: 123,086 | Gross: $47.81M

9. The Promised Neverland (2019–2021)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When three gifted kids at an isolated idyllic orphanage discover the secret and sinister purpose they were raised for, they look for a way to escape from their evil caretaker and lead the other children in a risky escape plan.

Stars: Sumire Morohoshi, Mariya Ise, Shinei Ueki, Lynn

Votes: 46,983

10. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

R | 105 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.

Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie

Votes: 161,729 | Gross: $37.52M

11. South Pacific (1958)

Approved | 157 min | Musical, Romance, War

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston

Votes: 9,822

12. Burn! (1969)

R | 112 min | Action, Drama, War

In 1844, a British mercenary helps the revolting slaves of an Antilles island colony gain independence from Portugal, but later returns to hunt down a local rebel leader and former protégé.

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori, Dana Ghia

Votes: 5,833 | Gross: $0.43M

13. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Unrated | 123 min | Drama

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

Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Votes: 1,757

14. Marked for Death (1990)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A retired DEA agent is out to hunt down and take out a Jamaican drug posse that has targeted he and his family for murder.

Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace, Keith David

Votes: 24,343 | Gross: $46.04M

15. Amazing Grace (2006)

PG | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai

Votes: 25,702 | Gross: $21.21M

16. Bamboozled (2000)

R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport

Votes: 12,358 | Gross: $2.27M

17. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

An ordinary man must embark on a search to find his missing wife that leads him to an abandoned house where a mysterious family lives who harbor an evil secret within the house and themselves.

Director: Koushi Nakanishi | Stars: Todd Soley, Katie O'Hagan, Jack Brand, Sara Coates

Votes: 10,348

18. Skipped Parts (2000)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ungrounded young mother and her thoughtful teenage son are banished to a remote provincial town by her domineering father.

Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mischa Barton, Bug Hall

Votes: 3,682

19. Emperor (2020)

PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

Director: Mark Amin | Stars: Mykelti Williamson, James Cromwell, Bruce Dern, James Le Gros

Votes: 1,542

20. White Material (2009)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.

Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Votes: 8,431 | Gross: $0.30M

21. 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: 13,677

22. Contamination (1980)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch

Votes: 5,299

23. Savannah (2013)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family, History

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.

Director: Annette Haywood-Carter | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander, Bradley Whitford

Votes: 1,772 | Gross: $0.04M

24. In the Time of the Butterflies (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.

Director: Mariano Barroso | Stars: Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Edward James Olmos, Mía Maestro

Votes: 2,487

25. I Eat Your Skin (1971)

GP | 92 min | Horror

A playboy adventure novelist joins his publisher on an expedition to Voodoo Island in the Caribbean, where a cancer researcher is being forced to turn the tribes-people into zombies.

Director: Del Tenney | Stars: William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Walter Coy, Dan Stapleton

Votes: 1,663

26. Firepower (1979)

R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach

Votes: 1,135

27. Ruby Gentry (1952)

82 min | Drama, Romance

A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, Karl Malden, Tom Tully

Votes: 1,768 | Gross: $3.85M

28. Toxic Zombies (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror

Marijuana growers deep in the woods are hit with a new toxic herbicide, and they turn into mindless cannibals killing everyone they come into contact with.

Director: Charles McCrann | Stars: Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon

Votes: 1,156

29. Heat of the Sun (1998)

334 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Set in the 1930s, a former Scotland Yard detective is sent to colonial Kenya to head the new criminal investigation unit.

Stars: Trevor Eve, Susannah Harker, Michael Byrne, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Votes: 657

30. The Outcasts (1968–1969)

60 min | Western

A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.

Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano

Votes: 182

31. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Passed | 144 min | Drama, History

Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann

Votes: 503

32. Daltry Calhoun (2005)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.

Director: Katrina Holden Bronson | Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Elizabeth Banks, Beth Grant, Laura Cayouette

Votes: 2,457 | Gross: $0.01M

33. Aswang (2011)

TV-PG | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

This is a remake of the 1992 Aswang (Shapeshifting Monster) film starring Alma Moreno. In this version, two kids witness their parents' murder and escape into a town plagued by a subspecies... See full summary »

Director: Jerrold Tarog | Stars: Lovi Poe, Paulo Avelino, Albie Casiño, Jillian Ward

Votes: 90

34. Evil Remains (2004)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

A graduate student preparing his thesis on mythology leads his friends on a research expedition to an old plantation estate on the outskirts of the Big Easy. The site is reputed to mysteriously cause madness and death to all who enter it.

Director: James Merendino | Stars: Jeff Galpin, Maryam d'Abo, Will Rokos, Daniel Gillies

Votes: 1,623 | Gross: $0.01M

35. 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

36. 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: 732

37. The Letter (1929)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »

Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne

Votes: 879

38. Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories (2006 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Three of the most popular and controversial Civil War stories by legendary writer Ambrose Bierce are presented in this acclaimed feature collection.

Directors: Don Maxwell, Brian James Egen | Stars: Campbell Scott, Vivian Schilling, Nathan Darrow, T. Max Graham

Votes: 157 | Gross: $0.02M

39. Cameo Kirby (1923)

70 min | Drama

Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale, Eric Mayne

Votes: 377

40. Manila Calling (1942)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, War

During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, a few Americans and a Filipino guerrilla unit seize a Japanese jungle base and use the radio transmitter to broadcast anti-Japanese propaganda, prompting retaliatory Japanese attacks.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason

Votes: 181

41. Hell on Devil's Island (1957)

Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Corrupt prison authorities use convict labor to run mines.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Helmut Dantine, William Talman, Donna Martell, Jean Willes

Votes: 34

42. O Salvador da Pátria (1989– )

50 min | Drama, Romance

Innocent farm worker Sassá Mutema becomes the town hero and a political candidate after he's wrongfully accused of murdering a famous radio broadcaster who used his radio program to deceive and manipulate his listeners.

Stars: Lima Duarte, Francisco Cuoco, Maitê Proença, Betty Faria

Votes: 145

43. Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? (2000 TV Movie)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Drama, Family, History

Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.

Director: William Fruet | Stars: Melyssa Ade, Gina Clayton, Melanie Nicholls-King

Votes: 20

44. The Chinese Den (1940)

72 min | Drama

An affluent Chinese financier marries a lively British singer; however, an unforeseen but dangerous liaison with a plantation owner threatens to transform their once-peaceful retreat into a horrible prison. Is revenge the only solution?

Director: George King | Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Walsh, Jane Baxter, Robert Douglas

Votes: 63

45. La última siembra (1991)

113 min | Drama, Western

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Director: Miguel Pereira | Stars: Patricio Contreras, Leonor Manso, Mario Pasik, Alberto Benegas

Votes: 30

46. Edge (1997)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Harty | Stars: Aaron Michael Lacey, Steve Tartalia, Briel Banks, Celeste Lynch

Votes: 61

47. Sugat sa ugat (1983)

Drama

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Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Hilda Koronel, Amy Austria, Van De Leon

48. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode: South (1959)

Comedy, Drama

A dashing Polish Army lieutenant named Jan Wicziewsky is in exile in the US Deep South as civil war approaches. He is faced with the question of who he really loves: the plantation owner's ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Prizek | Stars: Barbara Assoon, Juliet Cooke, Noel Dyson, Karal Gardner

Votes: 18