small town, big secret
19 titles
Everyone knows everyone, and that is the problem. A shark the mayor won't acknowledge, a mother renting billboards against her own police force, a murder investigation that keeps arriving at people the detective grew up with. The small town is not the setting here — it is the mechanism, because the thing that makes these places safe is the same thing that makes them impossible to escape.
In the Heat of the Night
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Anatomy of a Murder
Fargo
Village of the Damned
Mystic River
Corpus Christi
The Hunt
Clown in a Cornfield
Memories of Murder
Inherit the Wind
To Kill a Mockingbird
Honey Don't!
Mississippi Burning
Secret Sunshine
In the Mouth of Madness
Cookie's Fortune
Blood Simple
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