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101. When the Legends Die (1972)

PG | 107 min | Drama, Western

A young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.

Director: Stuart Millar | Stars: Richard Widmark, Frederic Forrest, Luana Anders, Vito Scotti

Votes: 558 | Gross: $0.56M

102. Call of Juarez: The Cartel (2011 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

An undercover team has been put together in order to investigate a bombing of an LAPD office.

Stars: Lombardo Boyar, Kim Compeau, Jesse Corti, John Cygan

Votes: 343

103. Jericho (2000)

PG-13 | 101 min | Mystery, Western

A mysterious gunman searches for his lost identity.

Director: Merlin Miller | Stars: Mark Valley, Leon Coffee, R. Lee Ermey, Lisa Stewart

Votes: 537

104. Blood River (2009)

Not Rated | 104 min | Horror, Thriller, Western

A psychological thriller, which explores the destruction of a young couple's seemingly perfect marriage.

Director: Adam Mason | Stars: Andrew Howard, Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan, Sarah Essex

Votes: 1,485

105. Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus: Old Town Road (Remix) (2019 Music Video)

5 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Music video for Lil Nas X's song Old Town Road (Remix) feat. Billy Ray Cyrus. Old West outlaws, Nas and Cyrus, get teleported from 1889 to 2019, where they interact with baffled residents of present day Old Town Road in entertaining ways.

Director: Calmatic | Stars: Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus, Chris Rock, Haha Davis

Votes: 308

106. Wooly Boys (2001)

PG | 99 min | Comedy

A sheep rancher's visit to the big city triggers a mischevious adventure with his teenage computer-whiz grandson.

Director: Leszek Burzynski | Stars: Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Joseph Mazzello, Keith Carradine

Votes: 738 | Gross: $0.34M

107. J W Coop (1971)

GP | 112 min | Drama, Western

After losing 9 years 9 months and thirteen days to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost '... See full summary »

Director: Cliff Robertson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 592

108. The Divide (2018)

Not Rated | 104 min | Western

A migrant ranch hand contacts an aging rancher's estranged daughter when it becomes apparent that the rancher is suffering from the onset of dementia.

Director: Perry King | Stars: Bryan Kaplan, Perry King, Sara Arrington, Levi Kreis

Votes: 124

109. Once Upon a Time in Amityville (2024)

73 min | Horror | Completed

The origins of the Amityville legend are explored in an old settlement town.

Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Ken Van Sant, Titus Himmelberger, Jeff Kirkendall, Tim Hatch

110. A Girl Is a Gun (1971)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Billy the Kid pursues the witness of a heist in order to eliminate him.

Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont, Bruno Kresoja

Votes: 184

111. 3 Tickets to Paradise (2021)

87 min | Action, Adventure, Western

AJ Parker, her ex-husband and a federal agent head for a ghost town in Mexico called Paradise in search for a hidden cache of 5000 stolen double eagle $20 gold coins.

Directors: Dominic López, Isaac Piche | Stars: Michelle Manhart, Joe Bell, Jeffrey Bentley, Martin Kove

Votes: 90

112. Melody Ranch (1940)

Passed | 84 min | Western

His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller, Barton MacLane

Votes: 261

113. Trois Balles (2023)

7 min | Short, Western

In this contemporary western, two men are confronted with a delicate situation, a risky deal between the two characters is announced.

Director: Damien Lopez | Stars: Alicia Riveaux Goloubinow, Ramuntxo Sallabery, Christophe Seghair

114. Rodeo Girls (2023)

58 min | Documentary

Born in the heart of traditional Texas, Jessi, Naia and Shelby are part of a new generation of women shaking up the male world of rodeo. Each of these fearless girls dreams of conquest, of forbidden territories and of victory.

Directors: Justine Morvan, Kévin Noguès

Votes: 10

115. Nullarbor (2011)

TV-G | 11 min | Animation, Short, Action

A man with road rage confronts an elderly driver. Then all hell breaks loose.

Directors: Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell | Stars: Cliff Ellen, Tristan Sarell

Votes: 285

116. The Lion and the Horse (1952)

83 min | Drama, Western

In this B-Feature western, a cowboy who snared a wild stallion and sells it to a cruel rodeo owner attempts to buy the horse back.

Director: Louis King | Stars: Steve Cochran, Wildfire the Horse, Ray Teal, Bob Steele

Votes: 157

117. Paper Hearts (1993)

R | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A man who abandoned his family callously returns with his new girlfriend to sign the divorce papers and see his daughter who's getting married. His arrival reawakens old family wounds and pushes his distraught wife to the brink of sanity.

Director: Rod McCall | Stars: James Brolin, Sally Kirkland, Pamela Gidley, Laura Johnson

Votes: 166

118. Cowboy Commandos (1943)

Approved | 55 min | Western

The Range Busters investigate sabotage at a mining community and uncover a gang of Nazi spies.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Dennis Moore, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley

Votes: 46

119. Black Market Rustlers (1943)

Approved | 58 min | Western

In this WW II film meant to discourage the purchase of black market beef, the Range Busters are called on to fight cattle rustlers. This time they're up against a gang that strikes fast by hauling the beef away in trucks.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Dennis Moore, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley

Votes: 46

120. Tales of a Faded West (TV Movie)

Western | Filming

A post-apocalyptic western that chronicles the evolution of a new society.

Director: Brenden Roberts | Stars: Keith Jardine, Michelle Campbell, Sam Quinn, Roger Ivens

121. Bushwick Jodi (2023)

7 min | Short, Western

After seven months in exile, "Bushwick Jodi" Penado returns to her old neighborhood to settle new scores. Once the most-respected outlaw in Brooklyn, Jodi discovers much has changed in her ... See full summary »

Director: A. Cody Osborne | Stars: Joyia D. Bradley, Aleecia Gwyn, Mairys Joaquin, Eboni Pearce

122. Wild Horse Rustlers (1943)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western

The setting is WWII and Hans Beckman has arrived from Germany with a mission of destroying horses before they can be sold to the government. He kidnaps and replaces his twin brother as ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Robert Livingston, Al St. John, Lane Chandler, Linda Leighton

Votes: 20

123. Domestic Fowl

Drama | Filming

After the death of their flock of chickens, Joan Doyle and her family struggle to make ends meet. Matters draw worse when Joan discovers that her parents are considering selling their farm and home. Desperate to save it, Joan gets to work.

Directors: Taylor Mann, Emmy Pitschner | Stars: Sarah Schmidt-McQuillan, Ethan Zuchkan, Tom Pashkov, Charlotte Salisbury

124. The Wild North (1955)

100 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Western spoof set in the "Wild North", the Finnish Lapland. A young woman whose gold-digger father was killed two years earlier thinks the killer was Tundra-Tauno. She goes after him but ... See full summary »

Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Tapio Rautavaara, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Oravisto, Aino-Maija Tikkanen

Votes: 142

125. Brought in with the Dust (2025)

70 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production

Left for dead, a man navigates through the desert on a singular path to collect his debts.

Directors: Jeremy Hamley, Kevin Lucero Less | Star: Kevin Lucero Less

126. Frontier Wisdom (2018)

5 min | Animation, Short, Western

In the dry desert space between here and there, a phone repairwoman encounters a chatty corpse, a self-propelled peanut, and some portents of the rapture.

Director: Jenna Caravello | Star: Jake Acosta

127. Aerial Girl

Drama | Announced

An urban teenage girl grapples with the loss of her father, her new found fascination with the west and the lies she unearths when her mother takes her to live at her grandfathers ranch in Wyoming.

Director: Anna Simone Scott

128. Skin Shed (2023)

18 min | Short, Western

Miserable Cowboy breakfasts with his wife when he receives a phone call - his girlfriend. He reads her French poetry and pleads to see her. She accepts. Upon arrival, he enters into his own flat where his wife waits for him.

Director: Anna de Cavalera | Stars: Carraic H. O'Donnel, Ester Freider, Ana-Maria Margarit, Enoch Hitchcock

129. Salt Creek (II)

Western | Announced

A haunting story about a troubled family in the American West. A broke, newly widowed mother and her teenage daughter are forced to leave city life behind and face the uncertainty of life on the isolated Western ranch where she grew up.

Director: Anna Simone Scott

130. Fallout: Crossroads (2014 Video)

8 min | Short, Action

A lone courier must save a squad of NCR Troopers, before they are overrun by a Legion Hoard.

Director: Nick Laurant | Stars: Kent Christensen, Jos Deacon, Coty Galloway, Ben Gendron

131. Western Lies

Thriller | Announced

An intertwined drama about the smuggling business across the northern U.S border, seen through the eyes of a worn torn Marine Veteran, his strung out brother, and the sister of a drug kingpin, who begins to question her families motives.

132. Outlaws (1986–1987)
Episode: Outlaws (1986)

PG | 97 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Western

Five time-tossed 1890's cowboys find themselves in the 1980's and start a detective agency.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Rod Taylor, William Lucking, Charles Napier, Patrick Houser

Votes: 98

133. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: A Dog Named Barney (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky follows the seeing-eye dog of a blind newsboy Johnny Henderson, who he believes will lead him to a holdup man living with a party of coyote hunters.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Harvey Grant

Votes: 24

134. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: A Mickey for Sky (1959)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Young Mickey, a distant relative of Sky's, is traveling to visit the Flying Crown Ranch while his guardian is out of the country. En route, he overhears two men discuss shooting a foreign ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Gary Hunley, John Mylong

135. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Abracadabra (1958)

TV-PG | 26 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Todays theme is the magic word Abracadabra.

Director: Jodie Copelan | Stars: Kirby Grant, Jack Reynolds, Gloria Winters, Gloria Pall

Votes: 6

136. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Bad Actor (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky and Penny get involved with a film location shoot. Some criminals decide to use the move activity to rob a bank.

Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Ted Wedderspoon

137. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Blackmail (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A local banker is blackmailed by two former confederates who aware of a crime he committed over twenty years ago and was never apprehended.

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, Don Beddoe

Votes: 7

138. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Boomerang (1956)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky King and Penny turn the tables on foreign agents conspiring to blackmail an important refugee scientist.

Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Steven Geray

139. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Bounty Hunters (1959)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

When marauding coyotes begin to kill his calves, Sky hires two flying bounty hunters to kill the animals. When more dead calves are found, Sky discovers that the men he has hired are using his ranch to smuggle jewels, not kill vermin.

Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Wayne Heffley

140. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Bullet Bait (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky is holding a wedding at the Flying Crown Ranch. The ceremony is interrupted, however, when two gangsters kidnap the groom and threaten his fiancé.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, James Dobson

Votes: 21

141. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Carrier Pigeon (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

When Penny discovers a wounded carrier pigeon carrying a valuable ruby attached to its leg, Sky suspects a gang of jewel smugglers is operating in the area. With the help of a Mexican ... See full summary »

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, Morgan Farley

Votes: 10

142. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Cindy, Come Home (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

A doctor informs Sky that the only thing that will help a sick girl is finding her missing father. Sky goes on the hunt for missing man.

Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, William Hudson, Darcy Hinton

Votes: 8

143. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Danger Point (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A rancher disinherits his nephew in favor of his young son. When the rancher is murdered the young man is blamed. Sky hopes that by faking a jailbreak, the real murderer will be forced into... See full summary »

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, Keith Richards

Votes: 7

144. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Danger at the Sawmill (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

After being almost run down by a lumber truck, Sky and Penny investigate and learn that the local timber workers are being victimized.

Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Rex Mann, Henry Kulky

Votes: 10

145. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Dead Giveaway (1959)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky's visitor, Mickey, goes exploring on his new pony and is captured by thieves guarding a large supply of stolen cars.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Gary Hunley

146. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Dead Man's Will (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

When a man claims that the land on which the clinic for poverty stricken Indians is built belongs to him, Sky steps in to prove he's wrong.

Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Steve London, Joe Patridge

147. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Deadly Cargo (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

While helping a friend run his freight airline after an accident, Sky stumbles across a gold-smuggling operation.

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, John Cason

Votes: 8

148. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Designing Woman (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky becomes suspicious when a Eastern woman shows up in Grover claiming to be the long-lost niece and heir of a dead rancher.

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, Angela Greene

Votes: 7

149. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Desperate Character (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky King picks up a young hitchhiker who refuses to divulge his identity, or where he's been or going. Determined to fill in the blank spaces on the young man's resume, Sky learns that he ... See full summary »

Director: Hollingsworth Morse | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ron Hagerthy, Chubby Johnson

150. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Destruction from the Sky (1952)

TV-PG | 27 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky teams up with a military intelligence officer to track down a foreign agent who blew up a secret government project.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Kirby Grant, Ron Hagerthy, Gloria Winters, Chubby Johnson