Best "moonshine" Movies of All Time

35 movies found (page 1/2):

The Dukes of Hazzard(2005)

2.8/5 (with 493 votes)

Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.

Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar - With Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson, David Koechner, ...

Lawless(2012)

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| 1h 55min | Crime, Drama, Western

3.5/5 (with 1,399 votes)

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

Directed by John Hillcoat - With Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, ...

Black Snake Moan(2006)

1h 56min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 372 votes)

A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

Directed by Craig Brewer - With Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, David Banner, Michael Raymond-James, ...

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The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning(2007)

1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 84 votes)

When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It's not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss Hogg's plans to foreclose on Uncle Jesse's farm. Together, with help from their cousin Daisy, Bo and Luke vow to save the family's property and its storied history of producing the best moonshine in all of Hazzard.

Directed by Robert Berlinger - With Jonathan Bennett, Randy Wayne, Christopher McDonald, Joel David Moore, Sherilyn Fenn, Willie Nelson, ...

White Lightning(1973)

1h 41min | Drama, Action, Crime

3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Matt Clark, R. G. Armstrong, ...

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Bootleggers(1962)

19min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 51 votes)

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshine. Bottled "product" fills shelves quickly. Life is good. But their dog Barbos doesn't understand that bringing a moonshine condenser coil to a police station is a bad idea...

Directed by Leonid Gaidai - With Georgy Vitsin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Yuri Nikulin, Vladimir Pitsek

The Shepherd of the Hills(1941)

1h 38min | Drama, Western, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Main, ...

Thunder Road(1958)

1h 32min | Drama, Action, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

Directed by Arthur Ripley - With Gene Barry, Robert Mitchum, Keely Smith, Jacques Aubuchon, Trevor Bardette

Jug Face(2013)

1h 21min | Horror, Thriller, Drama

2.6/5 (with 74 votes)

When a supernatural pit worshipped by a remote community in the woods demands a new blood sacrifice, a young woman struggles to find a way to survive as the pit lashes out in anger.

Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle - With Sean Bridgers, Sean Young

Them Thar Hills(1934)

20min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 26 votes)

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.

Directed by Charley Rogers - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall, Billy Gilbert, Baldwin Cooke, ...

The Last American Hero(1973)

1h 35min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Ed Lauter, ...

Redneck Zombies(1989)

1h 24min | Horror, Comedy

2.1/5 (with 24 votes)

A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks from the liquor they produced turns into a zombie.

Directed by Pericles Lewnes

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In the Year 2889(1969)

1h 20min | Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie

1.3/5 (with 9 votes)

The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.

Directed by Larry Buchanan - With Paul Petersen, Charla Doherty

The Moonshine War(1970)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy, Crime

2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.

Directed by Richard Quine - With Alan Alda, Bo Hopkins, Claude Johnson, Harry Carey, Joe Williams, John Schuck, ...

Wind Across the Everglades(1958)

1h 33min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Christopher Plummer, Burl Ives, Gypsy Rose Lee, George Voskovec, MacKinlay Kantor, Peter Falk, ...

The Girls from Thunder Strip(1970)

1h 20min | Action

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.

Directed by David L. Hewitt - With Jody McCrea

Thunder and Lightning(1977)

1h 35min | Action, Thriller

2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.

Directed by Corey Allen - With Kate Jackson, David Carradine, Charles Napier, Charles Willeford, Emilio Rivera, George Murdock, ...

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.(1981)

1h 30min | Comedy

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

Bad Georgia Road(1977)

1h 26min | Action, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.

Directed by John Broderick - With Gary Lockwood, Carol Lynley, Royal Dano, Cliff Emmich, Dick Haynes, Conrad Palmisano, ...

Preacherman(1971)

1h 27min | Drama, Comedy

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the preacher and gets the local police to investigate his actions.

Directed by Al Viola - With Ilene Kristen

Dixie Dynamite(1976)

1h 28min | Action, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed.

Directed by Lee Frost - With Warren Oates, Jane Anne Johnstone, Kathy McHaley, Christopher George, Stanley Adams, R. G. Armstrong, ...

Moonshine County Express(1977)

1h 36min | Action, Crime, Drama

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local crime syndicate.

Directed by Gus Trikonis - With John Saxon, Claudia Jennings, Candice Rialson, Maureen McCormick, William Conrad, Dub Taylor, ...

The Devil's Eight(1969)

1h 37min | Thriller, Crime, Drama

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring.

Directed by Burt Topper - With Christopher George, Fabian, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ralph Meeker, Ron Rifkin, ...

Bootleggers(1974)

1h 50min | Comedy, Crime

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A bunch of bootleggers run booze in the South.

Directed by Charles B. Pierce - With Paul Koslo

Eight Deadly Shots(1972)

5h 16min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.

Directed by Mikko Niskanen - With Mikko Niskanen, Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala, Paavo Pentikäinen, Sulo Hokkanen, Olavi Tervahartiala, Kaarlo Wilska, ...

Salaviinanpolttajat(1907)

20min | Comedy

No prints of the film have been preserved so the film can be considered a lost film. The original screenplay has also been lost. However, some plot descriptions are still known based on contemporary newspaper advertisements of the film. As the name would indicate, the film tells about two local men who are making moonshine in the woods. A customer comes to them, and while sampling the product they start a game of cards, which eventually leads to a fight. While the fight is going on, the local police shows up and arrests the makers while the customer manages to escape.(Wikipedia)

Directed by Louis Sparre, Teuvo Puro - With Eero Kilpi, Teppo Raikas, Teuvo Puro, Jussi Snellman, Alex Rautio

Raw Love(1965)

1h 2min | Drama

Skeeter lives, loves, and makes moonshine in the backwoods of the United States.

The Tender Warrior(1971)

1h 25min | Adventure

The sheriff of a small Georgia town on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp does nothing to stop a family of white-trash moonshiners from trapping and killing defenseless animals. But Sammy, a young swamp-boy, takes matters into his own hands. Assisted by his pet chimp, Chuck, Sammy launches a campaign to free the trapped animals.

Directed by Stewart Raffill - With Dan Haggerty

Citadel of Crime(1941)

58min | Drama

A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.

Directed by George Sherman - With Robert Armstrong

Rum Runners(2016)

1h 46min | Drama

Rum Runners is the epic story of two best friends, Vic Hanson and Don Calyer. They get caught running illegal booze across the Canadian border. This outstanding screenplay is inspired by actual events. This story promises to have you entertained, and the topic of many conversations for years to come. Vic and Don escape through a hail of bullets and car crashes that will leave its viewers breathless. After their heart stopping escape, they resort to flying a biplane over the US/Canadian border full of illegal rum, thus the name "RUM RUNNERS".

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