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Crazy Mama(1975)

PG
| 1h 23min | Crime, Action, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.

Thelma & Louise(1991)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 1,488 votes)

Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-strengths in the trying times.

True Grit(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 50min | Drama, Adventure, Western
3.7/5 (with 2,365 votes)

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Minari(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 675 votes)

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

The Beverly Hillbillies(1993)

PG
| 1h 33min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 229 votes)

Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

Sling Blade(1996)

R
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 322 votes)

Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

Devil's Knot(2013)

NR
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 293 votes)

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Mud(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,232 votes)

Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.

Brubaker(1980)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 201 votes)

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.

One False Move(1992)

R
| 1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 58 votes)

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills(1996)

2h 30min | Documentary, Crime
3.8/5 (with 73 votes)

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

Directed by Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky - With West Memphis Three

A Face in the Crowd(1957)

2h 5min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 95 votes)

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

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West of Memphis(2012)

R
| 2h 30min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 58 votes)

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the Unitedstatian South.

Directed by Amy J. Berg - With West Memphis Three

Daddy and Them(2001)

R
| 1h 41min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

The Legend of Boggy Creek(1972)

G
| 1h 27min | Mystery, Horror, Drama
2.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, Boggy Creek focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while chronicling sightings of the monster.

Directed by Charles B. Pierce

Shotgun Stories(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 77 votes)

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.

Directed by Jeff Nichols - With Michael Shannon

Running the Bases(2022)

PG
| 3h 29min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A high school, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces extreme opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations(2000)

2h 10min | Documentary, Crime
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.

Directed by Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger - With West Memphis Three

A Painted House(2003)

3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming season, the boy learns that his challenges guide him in discovering who he really is.

A Family Thing(1996)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 25 votes)

Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.

Meth Storm(2017)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

As police and DEA agents battle sophisticated cartels, rural, economically-disadvantaged users and dealers–whose addiction to ICE and lack of job opportunities have landed them in an endless cycle of poverty and incarceration–are caught in the middle.

The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale(2018)

1h 35min | Horror, Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in a southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.

Directed by Derrick Sims - With Suilma Rodriguez, Janis Duley, Chase Ryan Jeffery

Melanie(1982)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.

The Ernest Green Story(1993)

1h 41min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

Directed by Eric Laneuville - With Morris Chestnut

September 30, 1955(1977)

1h 41min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A young Southerner loses his grip on reality when his favorite movie star James Dean suddenly dies in a car crash.

Pilgrimage(1933)

NR
| 1h 36min | Drama, War, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Radio City Revels(1938)

1h 30min
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name. Comedy.

She Gets Her Man(1935)

NR
| 1h 5min | Comedy, Crime

Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.

The Man in the Trunk(2019)

NR
| 1h 24min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.

The Windjammer(1945)

NR
| 56min | Music, Comedy

Scott Elliott, a discharged WWII Navy officer and a film executive in civilian life, passes through a small Arkansas town, and meets Bob Burns, a farmer, and his daughter. As a film executive prior to the war, Elliott always had the thought that he could make animals talk on the screen, and when he tells this to Bob, he heartily agrees. They form a partnership whereby Elliott will handle the technical aspects, and Bob will write the dialogue for the talking animals. They go to Hollywood, where they start work on the film with the financial help of a producer. However, when half of the scenes are completed, they run the scenes for the producer, who walks out and refuses to put any more money in the project.

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