The Treasure State Movies
by Hoekkie | created - 07 Jan 2018 | updated - 13 Apr 2018 | PublicThe Treasure State is the official nickname of Montana. In 1889 it became the 41st state of the United States of America. These movies have a connection with Montana. It's a topic in the story or they are (partially) filmed in Montana.
Which movie (or movie poster) do you associate the most with Montana?
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1. Treasure State (2013)
PG | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
In this family-friendly adventure, two teens must put their rivalry aside and join forces to stop notorious bandits and survive the brutal wilderness known as the Treasure State.
Director: Andrew Wiest | Stars: Robert Milo Andrus, Robert Bear, Jake Bramante, Colton Christensen
Votes: 149
2. A River Runs Through It (1992)
PG | 123 min | Drama
Two sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn
Votes: 65,514 | Gross: $43.44M
3. Montana (1950)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Western
An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, and is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Directors: Ray Enright, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 1,374
4. Big Eden (2000)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Big Eden is a small, fictional northwestern Montana town.
Director: Thomas Bezucha | Stars: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher
Votes: 4,904 | Gross: $0.51M
5. The Revenant (I) (2015)
R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 875,017 | Gross: $183.64M
6. The Missouri Breaks (1976)
PG | 126 min | Drama, Western
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd
Votes: 12,217 | Gross: $14.00M
7. The Horse Whisperer (1998)
PG-13 | 169 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 43,559 | Gross: $75.38M
8. Rancho Deluxe (1975)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James
Votes: 2,152
9. Evel Knievel (1971)
GP | 88 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed, Rod Cameron
Votes: 1,050 | Gross: $0.04M
10. 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: 15,677 | Gross: $1.03M
11. Northfork (2003)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Set in 1955, the residents of a small Montana community are forced to move their homes to make way for a new dam.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Duel Farnes, Nick Nolte, Anthony Edwards, James Woods
Votes: 5,599 | Gross: $1.42M
12. Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller
Votes: 1,052
13. Red Skies of Montana (1952)
Passed | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Drama dealing with the hazardous work of the U. S. Forest Service's paratroop fire-fighters in Montana.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter, Richard Boone
Votes: 558
14. Little Big Man (1970)
PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam
Votes: 37,916 | Gross: $31.56M
15. What Dreams May Come (1998)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her.
Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow
Votes: 114,478 | Gross: $55.49M
16. Always (1989)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman
Votes: 32,818 | Gross: $43.86M
17. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 28,747 | Gross: $25.00M
18. Powwow Highway (1988)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama
Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.
Director: Jonathan Wacks | Stars: Gary Farmer, A Martinez, Joanelle Romero, Amanda Wyss
Votes: 1,903 | Gross: $0.28M
19. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,705 | Gross: $44.02M
20. Dangerous Mission (1954)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price
Votes: 921
21. War Party (1988)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama
A group of re-enactors attempt to stage a hundred year anniversary battle between US Cavalry and Blackfeet Indians. Unfortunately racial hostilities and a real gun lead to some all too real... See full summary »
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson, Jimmie Ray Weeks
Votes: 724 | Gross: $0.66M
22. The River Wild (1994)
PG-13 | 111 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello
Votes: 50,231 | Gross: $46.82M
23. Devil's Pond (2003)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
A couple spend their honeymoon in a cabin on a small island in the middle of a forest lake. There's no power nor cellphone connection. He starts behaving strange, not letting her leave the island. She can't swim.
Director: Joel Viertel | Stars: Kip Pardue, Tara Reid, Meredith Baxter, Dan Gunther
Votes: 4,319
24. Bright Angel (1990)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Director: Michael Fields | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine
Votes: 720 | Gross: $0.16M
25. The Plainsman (1936)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western
Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford
Votes: 2,430
26. Winter in the Blood (2013)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Virgil First Raise wakes with a shiner and a hangover in a roadside ditch on the stark but beautiful plains of Montana. As he rises to face the day he sees a vision of his father lying dead... See full summary »
Directors: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith | Stars: Chaske Spencer, David Morse, Gary Farmer, Julia Jones
Votes: 280
27. The Patriot (1998)
R | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A respected doctor must race against time to find a cure for a lethal virus unleashed by a paramilitary militia leader.
Director: Dean Semler | Stars: Steven Seagal, L.Q. Jones, Gailard Sartain, Silas Weir Mitchell
Votes: 13,329
28. Timberjack (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In the late 1800s Montana, two competing logging operators clash over ownership of a logging railroad, land and timber clear-cutting rights.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Vera Ralston, David Brian, Adolphe Menjou
Votes: 239
29. Last of the Dogmen (1995)
PG | 118 min | Adventure, Western
A Montana bounty hunter and an anthropologist discover a tribe of Native Americans living in a settlement isolated from the rest of the world.
Director: Tab Murphy | Stars: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Steve Reevis
Votes: 5,975 | Gross: $7.40M
30. Walking Out (2017)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. Father and son struggle to connect, until a brutal encounter in the heart of the wilderness changes everything.
Directors: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith | Stars: Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman, Alex Neustaedter
Votes: 6,711 | Gross: $0.10M
31. The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett
Votes: 19,976 | Gross: $0.10M
32. Bus Stop (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field
Votes: 12,781
33. Pretty Ugly People (2008)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
Lucy has always used food to escape life's problems, but when this self-titled "fat friend" lures her group of old college buddies to the Montana wilderness, she reveals a new self - skinny, beautiful and still flawed.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Larry Sullivan, Phill Lewis
Votes: 2,223 | Gross: $0.01M
34. The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Western
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Main, Audrey Young
Votes: 1,261
35. Legends of the Fall (1994)
R | 133 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond
Votes: 183,244 | Gross: $66.64M
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