Best award winning movies with a white trash from Before 1980
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a white trash from Before 1980! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a white trash from Before 1980, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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- 1967-08-02 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
Rating
7.634
2 The Defiant Ones (1958)
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
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- 1958-08-14 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
Rating
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7.151
3 Five Easy Pieces (1970)
A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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- 1970-09-12 | Drama
Cast
- Jack Nicholson, Karen Black
Rating
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7.119
4 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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- 1962-12-20 | Drama
Cast
- Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Rating
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8.003
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5 Gone with the Wind (1939)
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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- 1939-03-12 | Drama / War
Cast
- Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
Rating
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7.943
6 Easy Rider (1969)
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
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- 1969-06-26 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper
Rating
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7.072
7 Nashville (1975)
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
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- 1975-06-11 | Drama / Music
Cast
- David Arkin, Barbara Baxley
Rating
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7.234
8 A Patch of Blue (1965)
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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- 1965-12-10 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters
Rating
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7.563
9 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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- 1967-08-14 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Rating
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7.501
10 Giant (1956)
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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- 1956-11-08 | Drama / Western
Cast
- Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson
Rating
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7.591
