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51. Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.
Stars: Poncie Ponce, Connie Stevens, Douglas Mossman, Robert Conrad
Votes: 691
52. Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera presented the conflict in the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
Stars: Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Chao Li Chi, David Selby
Votes: 4,282
53. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 133 min | Drama, History, Western
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin
Votes: 7,473
54. Love & Basketball (2000)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard
Votes: 24,409 | Gross: $27.44M
55. Home on the Range (2004)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To save their farm, the resident animals go bounty hunting for a notorious outlaw.
Directors: Will Finn, John Sanford | Stars: Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jennifer Tilly, Randy Quaid
Votes: 26,118 | Gross: $50.03M
56. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,751 | Gross: $1.03M
57. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Passed | 104 min | Western
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Votes: 19,375
58. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,534
59. S.W.A.T.: Under Siege (2017)
R | 89 min | Action, Thriller
A SWAT compound comes under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle SWAT after a raid went horribly wrong.
Director: Tony Giglio | Stars: Sam Jaeger, Adrianne Palicki, Michael Jai White, Kyra Zagorsky
Votes: 4,479
60. The Train Robbers (1973)
Passed | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Rod Taylor, Ben Johnson
Votes: 6,738
61. Montana Story (2021)
R | 114 min | Drama
Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague, Gilbert Owuor, Kimberly Guerrero
Votes: 3,430
62. The Texan (1958–1960)
13+ | 30 min | Western
The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him.
Stars: Rory Calhoun, Regis Parton, Duncan Lamont, James Drake
Votes: 337
63. Damsel (I) (2018)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.
Directors: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Votes: 5,919 | Gross: $0.31M
64. Snow Dogs (2002)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols
Votes: 28,654 | Gross: $81.17M
65. Hannie Caulder (1971)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Western
After she is raped by the trio of outlaw brothers who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the use of a gun so she can exact her revenge.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam
Votes: 4,199 | Gross: $0.46M
66. California Suite (1978)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine
Votes: 8,155
67. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History, Western
The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi
Votes: 13,550 | Gross: $18.64M
68. The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan | Stars: Butch Patrick, Hans Conried, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler
Votes: 3,557
69. The Way West (1967)
Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright
Votes: 3,597
70. The Warrior's Way (2010)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
Director: Sngmoo Lee | Stars: Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston
Votes: 27,280 | Gross: $5.66M
71. River of No Return (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 13,049
72. Rancho Notorious (1952)
Approved | 89 min | Western
After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry
Votes: 5,572
73. The Newton Boys (1998)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 12,417 | Gross: $10.30M
74. The Electric Horseman (1979)
PG | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson
Votes: 10,315 | Gross: $61.80M
75. Law & Order: LA (2010–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles police detectives investigate crimes and district attorneys prosecute the offenders.
Stars: Corey Stoll, Rachel Ticotin, Alfred Molina, Terrence Howard
Votes: 2,837
76. Westward the Women (1951)
Passed | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire
Votes: 3,828
77. Experiment in Terror (1962)
Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole
Votes: 6,661
78. Ride Lonesome (1959)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best
Votes: 6,637
79. Of Mice and Men (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Drama
A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Charles Bickford
Votes: 6,887
80. Valley of the Gods (2019)
TV-14 | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea
Votes: 1,143
81. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The story of the great sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who rose to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.
Directors: George Sidney, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 5,288 | Gross: $8.00M
82. The Border (1982)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A corrupt border Agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates
Votes: 7,110 | Gross: $6.12M
83. The Laramie Project (2002 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History
The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.
Director: Moisés Kaufman | Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant, Laura Linney
Votes: 6,965
84. Pride and Prejudice (2003)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Jane Austen's classic is transplanted to modern-day Utah. While her college roommates search for love, aspiring writer Elizabeth Bennet focuses on her career but constantly finds herself fighting haughty businessman Will Darcy.
Director: Andrew Black | Stars: Kam Heskin, Orlando Seale, Lucila Solá, Benjamin Gourley
Votes: 2,796 | Gross: $0.38M
85. Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
At first, gas station attendant Poet is happy when the Hell's Angels gang finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns just how brutal they are.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf, Jana Taylor
Votes: 2,706
86. The Prowler (1951)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren
Votes: 4,117
87. Lightning Jack (1994)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Western
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Paul Hogan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Beverly D'Angelo, Kamala Lopez
Votes: 7,262 | Gross: $16.82M
88. Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996–2009)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Two schoolchildren learn valuable life lessons from a buffalo, a red-tailed hawk, a bobcat, and a prairie dog.
Stars: Janice Kawaye, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kath Soucie, Frank Welker
Votes: 447
89. Blood on the Moon (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 3,515
90. Deep in the Heart (1983)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Director: Tony Garnett | Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann
Votes: 431
91. The Furies (1950)
Passed | 109 min | Western
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson
Votes: 3,915
92. L.A. Confidential (2003 TV Movie)
47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Unsold TV pilot based on the James Ellroy novel. An ambitious internal affairs investigator, a simple but tough patrolman and a morally gray vice squad detective investigate corruption and a mysterious heroin smuggling ring in 1950s L.A.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, David Conrad, Josh Hopkins, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Votes: 814
93. Man with the Gun (1955)
Passed | 84 min | Western
When a notorious tough 'town tamer' is hired by the citizenry to rid of the gunmen driving them off their land, he finds the local saloon madam to be an old friend.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jan Sterling, Karen Sharpe, Henry Hull
Votes: 2,308
94. Sheriff Callie's Wild West (2013–2017)
TV-Y | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A kids' western centered on a kitty-cat sheriff whose job is to ensure that the town of Nice and Friendly Corners remains the friendliest town in the West.
Stars: Mandy Moore, Lucas Grabeel, Jessica DiCicco, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 807
95. Monterey Pop (1968)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, History, Music
A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe McDonald
Votes: 4,948 | Gross: $0.00M
96. Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Dracula travels to the American Old West, intent on making a young and beautiful female ranch owner his vampire bride. Her fiance, the reformed outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Chuck Courtney, Melinda Casey, Virginia Christine
Votes: 2,263
97. Endangered Species (1982)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A former New York City cop relocates to rural Colorado, where he teams with a sheriff investigating a series of bizarre cattle mutilations occurring in the region.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 1,175 | Gross: $1.47M
98. Ramrod (1947)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,857
99. Ghost Town: The Movie (2007)
R | 115 min | Western
Dean Teaster's GHOST TOWN "The Movie", is a unique "Eastern" Western. It is N.C. native Dean Teaster's tribute to his father Robert Doyle Teaster and "Ghost Town In The Sky" theme park. The... See full summary »
Directors: Jeff Kennedy, Dean Teaster | Stars: Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, Bill McKinney, DJ Perry, Princess Daazhraii Johnson
Votes: 421 | Gross: $0.03M
100. Corsicana (2022)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Deputy Sheriff Bass Reeves is reunited with his former partner and fugitive Sam Tanner. Together with a former Union sharpshooter, they face a race against time to track Jack Donner and his ruthless gang of killers.
Director: Isaiah Washington | Stars: Isaiah Washington, Noel Gugliemi, Lew Temple, Stacey Dash
Votes: 1,040