🏷 Discover The Best Sharecropper Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncover the Hidden Stories of Sharecroppers in Cinema

Delve into the world of sharecroppers, a pivotal aspect of American history, through the lens of captivating movies and TV shows. From the struggles of rural life to the fight for equality, these stories have been immortalized on the silver screen. Explore the best films and series that shed light on this often-overlooked era.

Cast

Adriano Tardiolo

Agnese Graziani

Luke Chikovani

Alba Rohrwacher

Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

7.4 771 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Plot: wolf, rural area, magic realism, sharecropper

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Jason Clarke

Jason Mitchell

Mary J. Blige

Mudbound (2017)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Plot: farm, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, war veteran, ku klux klan, mississippi river, air force, alcoholism, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Paul Newman

Joanne Woodward

Anthony Franciosa

Orson Welles

The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

7.1 226 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, arranged marriage, host family, family relationships, sexual tension, arson, class differences, ...