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51. High Lonesome (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Western
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in Texas Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
Director: Alan Le May | Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer, Lois Butler
Votes: 334
52. My Friend Flicka (1955–1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Western
Set in Wyoming about 1900, this was a story about young Ken McLaughlin and his horse Flicka. Ken lived on a ranch with his parents Rob and Nell and the ranch-hand Gus and had many an adventure.
Stars: Gene Evans, Anita Louise, Johnny Washbrook, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 189
53. Flicka 2 (2010 Video)
PG | 96 min | Family
A big-city teenage girl is forced to live on a ranch in Wyoming and bonds with a wild horse.
Director: Michael Damian | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok, Clint Black, Reilly Dolman
Votes: 1,832
54. Ranchlands (2019)
69 min | Drama
"Ranchlands" is an LGBTQ drama about an urbane, yet lost gay man who returns to his estranged Christian family to care for his ailing brother - and finds romance with a queer ranch hand. ... See full summary »
Director: David Lewis | Stars: Nick Molari, Zachary Beck, Burt Binder, Kim Marie Cooper
Votes: 168
55. My Friend Flicka (1943)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Drama, Family
Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell
Votes: 1,055
56. Wild Roses (2009)
43 min | Drama, Romance
David McGregor's family owns an oil firm and the vast Rivercross estate in Alberta. His late father however donated the original land to the Henrys. The heiress and her all-female offspring... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Byers, Michelle Harrison, Gary Hudson, Kim Huffman
Votes: 262
57. The Red Pony (1949)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Family, Western
A ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic results.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 1,229
58. The Hired Gun (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Western
A woman breaks out of jail before her hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel
Votes: 390
59. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
60 min | Western
A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.
Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano
Votes: 183
60. The Scarf (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A man believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one who actually killed her using the scarf she was wearing.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, James Barton, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 652
61. The Naked Country (1985)
90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A rancher comes in conflict with a gang of renegade Aborigines on the run from their tribe's posse. They try to kill him, but he gets away and hides in the woods. His posh wife and her lover, a local alcoholic cop, go to rescue him.
Director: Tim Burstall | Stars: John Stanton, Rebecca Gilling, Ivar Kants, Tommy Lewis
Votes: 121
62. Scandalous John (1971)
G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Rick Lenz
Votes: 178 | Gross: $0.03M
63. Wind Dancer (1993)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family
When a young girl is injured by a riding accident, she overcomes her injury with the help of her family and her beloved horse.
Director: Craig Clyde | Stars: Mel Harris, Matt McCoy, Raeanin Simpson, Brian Keith
Votes: 243
64. Sweetgrass (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey ... See full summary »
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Votes: 1,109 | Gross: $0.21M
65. Adiós Amigo (1975)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Western
A conman's crimes are blamed on a good-natured fast-drawing cowboy he meets and decides to use as decoy.
Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Richard Pryor, James Brown, Robert Phillips
Votes: 342 | Gross: $0.64M
66. Black Horse Canyon (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
The story of a wild black stallion and the cowboys who set out to capture him.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard, Race Gentry, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 427
67. Smoky (1946)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Family, Music
Drama about the strong bond between a cowpoke and a wild bronco set during the 1940s.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter, Burl Ives, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 466
68. Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)
Passed | 77 min | Western
To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned.
Director: Albert C. Gannaway | Stars: Corinne Calvet, John Carroll, Skip Homeier, George Macready
Votes: 92
69. Way Out West (1930)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught, and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 738
70. Zander the Great (1925)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kind woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with the lad and nicknames him "Zander"... See full summary »
Directors: George W. Hill, Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Harry Watson
Votes: 676 | Gross: $0.26M
71. West of Broadway (1931)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War
Jerry Seevers returns from World War I service broken in health and his doctor tells him he has only six months to live. His fiancée jilts him and he sets out to drink himself to death. In ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran, Madge Evans
Votes: 646
72. The Broken Star (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Western
When a deputy marshal murders a henchman, steals the racketeer money he is holding, and claims self defense, the head marshal orders an investigation to find the truth.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Howard Duff, Lita Baron, Bill Williams, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 261
73. Beyond the Pecos (1945)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Oil is discovered on the ranch lands causing the dormant Remington-Randall feud to break out again. Lew Remington returns home to find himself embroiled in the struggle. The Randall faction... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 24
74. Wild Horse Mesa (1925)
Passed | 95 min | Western
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 94
75. King of the Wild Stallions (1959)
Passed | 76 min | Western
A young widow and her son on an isolated ranch find themselves being protected by a wild stallion.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: George Montgomery, Diane Brewster, Edgar Buchanan, Emile Meyer
Votes: 171
76. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 263 min | Western
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 141
77. Cattle Town (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Western
Post-civil-war Texas sells lands to wealthy Northerners but some of them are crooks bent on cheating the locals, prompting an investigation headed by the governor's envoy.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake, Rita Moreno
Votes: 223
78. Gallant Bess (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
An orphaned young man, Tex, has loved and trained his loyal horse, keeping alive his father's dream of starting a ranch. He decides to put his life on hold to serve the United States during... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Marshall Thompson, George Tobias, Clem Bevans, Donald Curtis
Votes: 219
79. Sand (1949)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Drama, Western
Jeff Keane's expensive showhorse escapes from a train and runs wild in the Colorado wilderness. Keane searches for the horse while the horse learns the ways of the wild.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 120
80. The Calgary Stampede (1925)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Champion Roman racer Dan Malloy falls in love with French Canadian Marie LeFarge, but is accused of killing her father. He evades the law until he wins the Calgary Stampede. He is freed when the real killer is identified.
Director: Herbert Blaché | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Virginia Brown Faire, Pierre Faunce, Clark Comstock
Votes: 74
81. Roughnecks (1980 TV Movie)
240 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. The contentious crew arrives, planning on going as deep as needed. In their off hours they find trouble carousing in town.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Ana Alicia, Wilford Brimley, Cathy Lee Crosby, Steve Forrest
Votes: 38
82. Don't Fence Me In (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Music, Western
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Director: John English | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 271
83. Strictly in the Groove (1942)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
In order to keep their band together, Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra have been flunking their college final examinations for years. Bob Saunders, the new pianist in the band, agrees to fail... See full synopsis »
Director: Vernon Keays | Stars: Mary Healy, Leon Errol, Richard Davies, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 36
84. I'm from the City (1938)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Pete Pepper (Joe Penner) is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch (Richard Lane). Pete is ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Joe Penner, Richard Lane, Lorraine Krueger, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 43
85. The Mysterious Rider (1933)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and... See full summary »
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Kent Taylor, Lona Andre, Berton Churchill, Irving Pichel
Votes: 28
86. Black Eagle (1948)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western
Jason Bond hops a ride on a freight-train car, containing a saddled horse, Black Eagle, and some rifles. When the boxcar is placed on a railway siding in a Texas town, Jason meets Ginny ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: William Bishop, Virginia Patton, Gordon Jones, James Bell
Votes: 33
87. La última siembra (1991)
113 min | Drama, Western
Director: Miguel Pereira | Stars: Patricio Contreras, Leonor Manso, Mario Pasik, Alberto Benegas
Votes: 30
88. 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
89. The Fighting Stallion (1950)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Released from a navy hospital following WW II, Lon Evans learns that he faces eventual blindness and returns to his Wyoming ranch. He sees a beautiful white stallion named Starlight and his... See full summary »
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Bill Edwards, Doris Merrick, Forrest Taylor, Don C. Harvey
Votes: 71
90. Cowboy Smoke (2008)
Action, Adventure, Crime
Joe's a suburban convenience store clerk with big dreams of becoming a cowboy so he packs his boots and relocates to South Texas to learn from the real deal. His idea of the mythic cowboy is quickly shattered however when he finds himself holed up in a town that survives on a human smuggling trade.
Director: Will James Moore | Stars: Mike Lutz, Chad Mathews, Matthew T. Johnston, Estella Perez
Votes: 115
91. The Cowboy and the Lady (1922)
Passed | 50 min | Romance, Western
Jessica (Mary Miles Minter) becomes fed up with her husband Weston's (Robert Schable) womanizing and leaves him for a Wyoming ranch. Weston follows her, and violence and jealousy ensue.
Director: Charles Maigne | Stars: Mary Miles Minter, Tom Moore, Viora Daniel, Patricia Palmer
92. Me Feelins Is Hurt (1940)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Olive writes a letter to Popeye: she's through with sailors; it's cowboys for her. Popeye immediately sails off to the West, where he finds, who else, Bluto as the head of the ranch where ... See full summary »
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Orestes Calpini | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer
Votes: 199
93. The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Western
In this Western comedy, the King Soap Company is doing poorly, and the banker says that to receive a bank loan, they must have orders, so daughter Mabel heads west as a traveling saleswoman... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Joan Davis, Andy Devine, Adele Jergens, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 66
94. Stormy (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Drama, Music
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Jean Rogers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 39
95. The Rainbow Trail (1918)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Lassiter, Jane Withersteen, and the young orphan Fay Larkin were imprisoned in a valley years ago, and now live like primitive people. A relative of Lassiter's named John Shefford goes in ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: William Farnum, Ann Forrest, Mary Mersch, William Burress
96. La tragedia de Macario (2005)
71 min | Drama
A new film inspired by the true events of immigrants from Mexico exhausting every effort to find a better life in the United States and paying the ultimate price as they attempt to cross ... See full summary »
Director: Pablo Veliz | Stars: Rogelio T. Ramos, Milicent Figueroa, Tina Rodriguez, Victor Agustin
Votes: 76
97. Hard Boiled (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Western
Tom Bouden, ordered by his millionaire uncle to help a friend and her niece run a health resort out west, insults the niece before meeting her. Irate, the latter goes west without him.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Tom Mix, Helene Chadwick, Heinie Conklin, Phyllis Haver
Votes: 20
98. Frontier Law (1943)
Approved | 55 min | Western
Riding south from Montana, Jim Warren and his friend, Ramblin' Rufe, discover that Jim's old pal, Dusty Norton, is working for triggerman Joe Hawkins. Later, Jim and Rufe see cattleman ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight, Dennis Moore, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 24
99. Felix Goes West (1924)
Passed | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix gets into trouble with a tribe of Indians out west, and is chased by a bear.
Director: Otto Messmer
Votes: 101
100. Lightning (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
SYNOPSIS In the Sevier River mountain area of Utah, horse wranglers Lee and Cuth Stewart, famous for their skill, are unable after several encounters to capture the wild stallion Lightning.... See full summary »
Director: James C. McKay | Stars: Jobyna Ralston, Robert Frazer, Margaret Livingston, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 26