Films set in Arkansas

2010 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1991 film by Ridley Scott

2005 film by James Mangold

Gordy is a 1994 American family comedy-drama film directed by Mark Lewis, about a livestock piglet named Gordy who searches for his missing family (who are taken away to a slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska). He experiences the lives of others who are part of the film's side plots, including traveling country music singers Luke McAllister and his daughter, Jinnie Sue; and lonely boy Hanky Royce whose mother, Jessica, is engaged to a sinister businessman named Gilbert Sipes. Gordy changes lives for the people he encounters due to their ability to understand him. The film was distributed by Miram

1993 film by Sydney Pollack

1969 film by Henry Hathaway

Minari (; ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.

2012 film by Jeff Nichols

2017 film directed by Doug Liman

1977 film by Hal Needham

2018 film directed by Joel Edgerton

Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden, Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W. D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murton's uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal. The film features a large supporting cast, including Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill a

1996 film by Billy Bob Thornton

2006 film by Jeff Tremaine

1972 film by Martin Scorsese

1957 film by Elia Kazan

2013 film directed by Atom Egoyan

1993 film by Penelope Spheeris

1992 film by Carl Franklin

1970 film by Roger Corman

1992 film directed by Walter Hill

2018 film by Tamara Jenkins

2022 film directed by Anna Gutto

1973 film by Joseph Sargent

1976 film by Charles B. Pierce

2001 film by Billy Bob Thornton

1997 film by William Dear

2020 film directed by Clark Duke

1964 film by Paul Martin

1976 film by Jonathan Demme

2025 film directed by Christian Swegal

1987 film by Jay Russell

1996 film directed by Richard Pearce

1972 film by Charles B. Pierce

1975 film by Jonathan Demme

1963 film by Jürgen Roland

2007 film by Jeff Nichols

1940 film directed by Harold Young

1988 film by David Beaird

1989 film by Percy Adlon

1977 film by James Bridges

film by Brea Grant

1943 film by Ray McCarey