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51. Yellowstone Romance (2022 TV Movie)
87 min | Comedy, Romance
Olivia learns that after a whirlwind romance her best friend since childhood is getting married and moving from New York to a ranch in Wyoming. She then decides to do a bachelorette retreat... See full summary »
Director: Marita Grabiak | Stars: Stephanie Bennett, Christopher Russell, Aadila Dosani, Caleb Di Pomponio
Votes: 496
52. The Big Land (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Romance, Western
Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States Civil War.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Anthony Caruso
Votes: 687
53. Kangaroo (1952)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boone
Votes: 392
54. Jonathan (2016)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young man learns that his dying father was once deeply in love with a man.
Director: Piotr J. Lewandowski | Stars: Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher
Votes: 1,177
55. Devil's Doorway (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Western
After the Civil War, a highly decorated Shoshone Indian veteran plans to raise cattle in Wyoming but white farmers plan to grab fertile tribal lands by pitting the whites against the Indians.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson
Votes: 1,866
56. The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser
Votes: 4,580 | Gross: $0.16M
57. Zandy's Bride (1974)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Western
An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 1,276 | Gross: $0.14M
58. Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western
In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson
Votes: 1,096
59. Go West (1925)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Western
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers, Ray Thompson
Votes: 5,022
60. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley
Votes: 1,650
61. Cattle Drive (1951)
Approved | 77 min | Western
A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, Chill Wills, Leon Ames
Votes: 774
62. Gun Glory (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland
Votes: 901
63. Apache Ambush (1955)
68 min | Western
After the Civil War, government envoys organize a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas but Mexican bandits and Apache renegades plan to steal the cattle and a secret shipment of Henry repeating rifles.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Montoya, Movita
Votes: 230
64. Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Western
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner, James Best
Votes: 752
65. Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer
Votes: 211
66. Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
PG | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
A Cajun man attempts to save his town.
Director: Glen Pitre | Stars: Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, Michael Schoeffling, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 521 | Gross: $1.44M
67. Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Western
Two outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised together as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their territory.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 1,087
68. Branded (1950)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith
Votes: 1,025
69. These Thousand Hills (1959)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Western
An ambitious cowboy will stop at nothing to get what he wants, including using the affections of two women.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens
Votes: 718
70. Cimarron City (1958–1960)
Approved | 60 min | Western
Cimmaron City is booming due to oil and gold and hopes to become capital of the future state of Oklahoma. Matthew Rockford is the son of the city's founder; he's now mayor and a major cattle rancher. Sheriff Temple must keep law and order.
Stars: George Montgomery, John Smith, Audrey Totter, Dan Blocker
Votes: 183
71. Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Western
Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edgar Buchanan, Frances Gifford
Votes: 241
72. Cattle Empire (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Western
Released from prison, a trail boss is solicited by rival cattle barons to drive their respective cattle herds to Fort Clemson.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates
Votes: 795
73. The Tramplers (1965)
105 min | Western
Civil War soldier returns home to his father who can't accept the loss of the Confederates. Serious conflicts arouse which split the family.
Directors: Albert Band, Mario Sequi | Stars: Gordon Scott, Joseph Cotten, James Mitchum, Ilaria Occhini
Votes: 264
74. Durango (1999 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer. Brenda Fricker appears as Keeslar's aunt and Mark ... See full summary »
Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Matt Keeslar, Patrick Bergin, George Hearn, Brenda Fricker
Votes: 291
75. Valley of the Sun (1942)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western
In the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger
Votes: 428
76. The Gunfighters (1987 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Western
The Everetts, two brothers and a cousin are trying to make a go of their ranch in Kansas, but Deke Turner, someone who wants to see them fail, is doing everything he can to see that happen. Featuring George Kennedy.
Director: Clay Borris | Stars: Art Hindle, Reiner Schöne, Anthony Addabbo, George Kennedy
Votes: 225
77. Three Young Texans (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Two cowhands fall for their boss' daughter but due to a gambling incident one gets involved with 2 hoods in robbing a payroll train.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens
Votes: 192
78. Bad Jim (1990)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Western
A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.
Director: Clyde Ware | Stars: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey Jr.
Votes: 246
79. The Overlanders (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... See full summary »
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue
Votes: 521
80. Samurai Cowboy (1994)
96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A Japanese man who always wanted to be a cowboy arrives in Montana and teams up with an African American singer, a bullied Native American, a cute veterinarian and an old cowboy to save a ranch.
Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Hiromi Gô, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Conrad, Matt McCoy
Votes: 109
81. The Desperado (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Western
From 1870 to 1873, Texas suffered under the carpetbag administration of Reconstructionist Governor E. J. Davis (the name and the stated conditions were about the only things authentic in ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Wayne Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Beverly Garland, Rayford Barnes
Votes: 194
82. The Raiders (1963)
Approved | 75 min | Western
Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Brian Keith, Robert Culp, Judi Meredith, Jim McMullan
Votes: 232
83. Cow Country (1953)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1875, the collapse of the world beef market creates hardships for Texas cattle growers. In Garnet Basin, many cattlemen are forced to sell their cattle for low prices. Processed in ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery, Barton MacLane
Votes: 222
84. Gold Mine in the Sky (1938)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn't marry without his approval.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, J.L. Franks' Golden West Cowboys
Votes: 106
85. Secret Valley (1937)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Music, Western
Rancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Richard Arlen, Virginia Grey, Norman Willis, Russell Hicks
Votes: 62
86. The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957)
Approved | 76 min | Romance, Western
A pseudo-marshal, a local doctor and the town sheriff must join forces to battle a greedy cattle-baron whose herd, locally sold, is contaminated with a contagious disease.
Director: Albert C. Gannaway | Stars: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Carl Smith, Harry Lauter
Votes: 178
87. Robbers' Roost (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays' gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick's cattle. Attracted to Herrick's sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: George O'Brien, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter McGrail, Maude Eburne
Votes: 64
88. The Longhorn (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Western
Remade in 1956 as Canyon River starring George Montgomery, this film has Wyoming rancher Jim Kirk (Bill Elliott) deciding to cross-breed his Texas longhorns with Herefords to develop what ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Bill Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, I. Stanford Jolley
Votes: 142
89. San Antone (1953)
90 min | Drama, Western
A Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado
Votes: 191
90. American Empire (1942)
Passed | 82 min | Western
Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford
Votes: 318
91. Return of the Plainsman (1953)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Western
The first of two commercially successful collaborations between Rafferty and Robinson is an Australian western in which Rafferty plays a legendary bushman known as the Sundowner who, with ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Robinson | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Henry Murdoch, Victoria Shaw, Max Osbiston
Votes: 21
92. West of the Pecos (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Western
After the Civil War, Colonel Lambeth returns to his country home in Georgia and is reunited with his daughter Terrill. Broke and with no immediate prospects, Lambeth and Terrill decide to ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Samuel S. Hinds, Fred Kohler
Votes: 24
93. Uno straniero a Sacramento (1965)
95 min | Western
Mike Jordan escapes from prison to vindicate his father and brother's death.
Director: Sergio Bergonzelli | Stars: Mickey Hargitay, Aldo Berti, Giulio Marchetti, Florencia Silvero
Votes: 37
94. Promise the Moon (1997 TV Movie)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The sudden death of a ranch owner leaves his hearing impaired son, who has been institutionalized from childhood, with the responsibility of keeping the land in the family.
Director: Ken Jubenvill | Stars: Henry Czerny, Colette Stevenson, Aidan Devine, Richard Donat
Votes: 86
95. The Sky Pilot (1921)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Western
The sky pilot is a preacher who helps Gwen walk again after a near-fatal accident.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: John Bowers, Colleen Moore, David Butler, Harry Todd
Votes: 176
96. Cowboys (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Ride alongside modern working cowboys on some of America's largest and most remote cattle ranches. The movie documents the lives of the men and women working on these "big outfit" ranches -... See full summary »
Directors: Bud Force, John Langmore
Votes: 32
97. Overland Mail (1942)
Approved | 279 min | Drama, Western
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Helen Parrish, Noah Beery Jr., Don Terry
Votes: 80
98. Water Rustlers (1939)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying.
Director: Samuel Diege | Stars: Dorothy Page, Dave O'Brien, Vince Barnett, Stanley Price
Votes: 106
99. The Night Rider (1962 TV Movie)
Approved | 26 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tim is the boss of a trail-herding crew consisting of Kentucky, a cook who plays the guitar, Joe, and Marty, a young, impressionable cowhand who longs for the glamorous life of a gunfighter... See full summary »
Director: Michael Hinn | Stars: Johnny Cash, Dickie Jones, Johnny Western, Merle Travis
Votes: 36
100. Rainbow Over the Rockies (1947)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Driving a herd of cattle to market, Jimmy finds the trail has been fenced off by an old friend of his. While the two sides try to settle the matter peaceably, a man from each outfit get ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Drake | Stars: Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Dennis Moore, Jack Baxley
Votes: 25