79 Films & TV Shows Set In Arkansas
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Arkansas
ArkansasCrime knows no borders. — Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
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Minari
Arkansas The 1980sA Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the rugged Ozarks, testing the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
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12 Hour Shift
Arkansas The 1990sPull your shift together. — It's 1999 and over the course of one 12-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their collective demise.
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Antiquities
ArkansasSometimes the past sticks with you — After his father's death, a young man searches to find who his dad was only to stumble onto himself.
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American Folk
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Virginia Tennessee Arkansas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona California Texas The 2000sThey shared their voices to heal a nation. — Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.
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Private Life
New York ArkansasRichard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
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Boy Erased
New York Tennessee ArkansasThe truth cannot be converted. — Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
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The Gospel of Eureka
ArkansasFaith, love and civil rights collide on voting day in a small Southern town that hosts a famous performance of the last days of Christ and an infamous gospel drag show.
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American Made
Arkansas Louisiana 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie — The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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The Revival
ArkansasA secret love affair between a southern Baptist preacher and a young drifter challenges the equilibrium of a growing church.
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God's Not Dead 2
Arkansas ArizonaWhen a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.
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Greater
Arkansas The 1990sGreater – The story of Brandon Burlsworth, possibly the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.
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The Stand
New York Maine Nevada Colorado Nebraska Arkansas TexasA bus in Kenya is waylaid by terrorists seeking to kill non-Muslims, and the Muslims onboard take a stand.
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Mississippi Grind
Missouri Tennessee Arkansas LouisianaWe can't lose. — Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him on a road trip to a legendary high stakes poker game in New Orleans. As they make their way down the Mississippi River, Gerry and Curtis manage to find themselves in just about every bar, racetrack, casino, and pool hall they can find, experiencing both incredible highs and dispiriting lows, but ultimately forging a deep and genuine bond that will stay with them long after their adventure is over.
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown
Arkansas The 2010sA masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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Mud
Arkansas MississippiRunning from his past. Hiding from the law. Only one way out. — 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.
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Devil's Knot
Arkansas The 1990sThey say the crimes were satanic. The truth may be scarier. — 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.
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West of Memphis
Arkansas The 1990sAn examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas — 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.
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
ArkansasThe complete inside story of the West Memphis Three — 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.
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True Grit
Arkansas Oklahoma The 1900s The 1870sPunishment Comes One Way or Another. — 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.
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Brüno
Arkansas California Texas Alabama 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 LebanonBorat was so 2006 — Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
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Shotgun Stories
ArkansasTwo families. One feud. No going back. — 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.
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War Eagle, Arkansas
ArkansasBased on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few pivotal weeks in the summer after Enoch Cass’s senior year, and is set against the backdrop of Arkansas’ beautiful Ozark Mountains. War Eagle, Arkansas poses important questions that face all young people in rural America. The answers we find could touch us all.
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Towncraft
ArkansasTowncraft looks at the importance of local scenes in a changing music world and the exciting music that emerges from smaller cities across the country when communities come together.
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Walk the Line
California Tennessee Arkansas The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sLove is a burning thing. — A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
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