Films set in Kentucky

The Kentuckian

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 6.2

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

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Many Rivers to Cross

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage...

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Kentucky

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her...

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Judge Priest

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1934 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.

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The Story of Seabiscuit

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes...

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Next of Kin

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

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Roseanna McCoy

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 5.7

It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respectiv...

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Above Suspicion

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 5.7

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes hi...

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Bloody Mama

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys incl...

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