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

English

7.1

♡ 7

73%

Richard Pearce Director

Mary Jackson as Carrie

Robert Duvall as Earl Pilcher Jr.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

Michael Beach as Virgil

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

English

6.6

♡ 2

Brent Renaud Director

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.

September 30, 1955

1977

English

6.3

♡ 2

53%

James Bridges Director

Lisa Blount as Billie Jean

Dennis Quaid as Frank

Tom Hulce as Hanley

Richard Thomas as Jimmy J.

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

Crazy Mama

1975

English

5.4

♡ 6

92%

Jonathan Demme Director

Dennis Quaid as Bellhop

Sally Kirkland as Ella Mae

John Aprea as Marvin

Bryan Englund as Snake

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.

The Beverly Hillbillies

1993

English

5.1

♡ 16

26%

Penelope Spheeris Director

Gary Carlos Cervantes as Carlos

Erika Eleniak as Elly May Clampett

Penny Fuller as Mrs. Margaret Drysdale

Rob Schneider as Woodrow Tyler

Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.

The Legend of Boggy Creek

1972

English

5.2

♡ 10

46%

Action

arkansas

based on a true story

Charles B. Pierce Director

Jeff Crabtree as Fred Crabtree

Gene Ross as Hunter

Sandra Cassel as Sandra

Herb Jones as Self

A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

1996

English

8.2

♡ 13

100%

Joe Berlinger Director

Jason Baldwin as Self

Bruce Sinofsky as Self

Joe Berlinger as Self

David Burnett as Self - Judge

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

One False Move

1991

English

7.1

♡ 21

93%

Carl Franklin Director

Bill Paxton as Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon

Jim Metzler as Dud Cole

Michael Beach as Pluto

Billy Bob Thornton as Ray Malcolm

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.

Rooster Cogburn

1975

English

6.8

♡ 15

50%

Stuart Millar Director

Richard Jordan as Hawk

Chuck Hayward as Jerry

Jerry Gatlin as Nose

Jon Lormer as Rev. Goodnight

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.

Pilgrimage

1933

English

7.2

♡ 4

83%

John Ford Director

Betty Blythe as Janet Prescot

Norman Foster as Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop

Bess Flowers as Restaurant Patron

Heather Angel as Suzanne

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

Running the Bases

2022

English

6.0

♡ 3

97%

evangelical christianity

Family

protest

religious fundamentalism

Sport

Marty Roberts Director

Gigi Orsillo as Jessica Brooks

Todd Terry as Michael Jamison

Isaiah LaBorde as Rick Garrison

Cameron Arnett as Sam Parker

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

English

7.5

♡ 9

Joe Berlinger Director

Jason Baldwin as Self

Leeza Gibbons as Self

David Burnett as Self

Ted Koppel as Self - Newscaster

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.

A Face in the Crowd

1957

English

8.2

♡ 28

89%

Elia Kazan Director

John Cameron Swayze as John Cameron Swayze

Charles Nelson Reilly as Minor Role

Mary Boylan as One of Lonesome's Relatives

R.G. Armstrong as TV Prompter Operator

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.

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

2011

English

8.0

♡ 11

100%

Joe Berlinger Director

Johnny Depp as Self

Bruce Sinofsky as Self - Paradise Lost Filmmakers

Joe Berlinger as Self - Paradise Lost Filmmakers

Jason Baldwin as Self - Perpetrator

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.

Brubaker

1980

English

7.1

♡ 17

74%

Action

arkansas

based on a true story

Crime

Drama

liberation of prisoners

prison

prison warden

undercover

Stuart Rosenberg Director

Noble Willingham as Dr. Fenster

Everett McGill as Eddie Caldwell

Jack O'Leary as Floor Walker

Morgan Freeman as Walter

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

True Grit

2010

English

7.6

♡ 152

95%

based on novel or book

Ethan Coen Director

Matt Damon as LaBoeuf

Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn

Leon Russom as Sheriff

Josh Brolin as Tom Chaney

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.

Sling Blade

1996

English

8.0

♡ 54

96%

Billy Bob Thornton Director

Lucas Black as Frank Wheatley

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers

Robert Duvall as Karl's Father

John Ritter as Vaughan Cunningham

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.

Shotgun Stories

2007

English

7.1

♡ 14

88%

Jeff Nichols Director

Coley Campany as Cheryl

Michael Abbott Jr. as Cleaman Hayes

Cosmo Pfeil as Norman

Michael Shannon as Son Hayes

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.

West of Memphis

2012

English

7.8

♡ 18

95%

Amy Berg Director

Erin Moriarty as Herself

Patti Smith as Herself

Johnny Depp as Himself

Erin Moriarty as Self - Journalist

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 American South.

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A Painted House

A Family Thing

Meth Storm

September 30, 1955

Crazy Mama

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Legend of Boggy Creek

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

One False Move

Rooster Cogburn

Pilgrimage

Running the Bases

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

A Face in the Crowd

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Brubaker

True Grit

Sling Blade

Shotgun Stories

West of Memphis