Blood Simple (1984)

Frances McDormand makes her debut (as in Fargo, always with a dead-on local accent) and Emmet Walsh steals the show as the crafty good-old-boy private dick/gunsel/slimeball in the Coen brothers' first film. The story and scenery should grab you and not let you go till it's over with plenty of plot twists and double-crosses for everyone. By the way, I saw the 2001 edition, which a faux introductory narrator intones "has received a digital swabbing. All the boring parts have been removed." 4.5 stars.