The Apostle (1997)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Farrah Fawcett
Director: Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall gives a tour-de-force performance as an evangelist seeking redemption after attacking his estranged wife's lover.

Dead Man Walking (1995)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn
Director: Tim Robbins
Harrowing, fact-based drama depicts the unlikely bond between a death row inmate and a nun in rural Louisiana.

Monster's Ball (2001)
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry
Director: Marc Forster
Powerful, sexually-charged drama stars Thornton as rural death row prison guard who falls in love with the African-American widow of a former inmate.

Sling Blade (1996)
Starring: Dwight Yoakam, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Thornton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for this Southern Gothic-flavored character study of a mentally challenged handy man in a small Arkansas town.

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One False Move (1991)
Starring: Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams
Director: Carl Franklin
In this violent, gripping crime drama (which he co-wrote), Thornton plays the amoral flip side of Levity's remorseful protagonist.