Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dude-ranch"

1. Heartland (II) (2007– )

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Family

A multi-generational saga set in Alberta, Canada and centered on a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times.

Stars: Amber Marshall, Shaun Johnston, Michelle Morgan, Chris Potter

Votes: 19,874

2. Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

Stars: Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan

Votes: 142,752

3. Hey Dude (1989–1991)

TV-Y | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A group of friends work together with their boss at a dude ranch and go through many fun moments and mishaps along the way.

Stars: David Brisbin, Kelly Brown, Debi Kalman, Christine Taylor

Votes: 3,438

4. The Women (1939)

Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama

A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland

Votes: 14,916 | Gross: $2.27M

5. Desert Hearts (1985)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.

Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers

Votes: 7,309 | Gross: $2.49M

6. Under the Autumn Moon (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While visiting a dude ranch that is a potential acquisition for the outdoor adventure company she works for, an eager candidate for a big promotion discovers what matters most when she reignites her passion for the great outdoors.

Director: Gary Yates | Stars: Lindy Booth, Wes Brown, Natalie Lisinska, Cherion Drakes

Votes: 1,565

7. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sissy Hankshaw (Uma Thurman) is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the U.S. from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising, and her New York agent, "the ... See full summary »

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Pat Morita, Angie Dickinson

Votes: 7,832 | Gross: $1.71M

8. The Opposite Sex (1956)

Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Former nightclub singer Kay Hilliard, married 10 years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steven is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal Allen, so she goes to Reno for a divorce.

Director: David Miller | Stars: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan

Votes: 1,966 | Gross: $6.02M

9. Love in Paradise (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama

TV cowboy taken out of his comfort zone on a working ranch in Montana.

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Luke Perry, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Tom Butler, Matt Frewer

Votes: 1,468

10. Tickle Me (1965)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A singing rodeo rider gets hired at an expensive all-female dude ranch/beauty spa and falls for a pretty fitness trainer who's under constant threat from a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold that's hidden in a ghost town.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney

Votes: 2,032 | Gross: $7.41M

11. Debbe Dunning's Dude Ranch Roundup (2017–2021)

23 min | Adventure

Debbe Dunning travels the country in search of western lifestyle and outdoor adventure at some of the most rustic and luxurious Dude Ranches across the United States.

Stars: Debbe Dunning, Sysco Timmons, Spencer Timmons, Stoney Timmons

Votes: 25

12. Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott

Votes: 1,446

13. 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: 489

14. Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)

Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Tony Curtis

Votes: 785

15. Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017 Video)

Not Rated | 79 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The Mystery Inc. team visits Shaggy's relative at her ranch outside a wild west tourist town. A ghost cowboy is scaring away the tourists and proprietors there. The five investigate.

Directors: Matt Peters, Dongwan Jung, Young Won Jung, Jinsung Kim | Stars: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci

Votes: 1,905

16. Neon Rider (1989–1995)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

Michael Terry is a best selling writer/therapist who is tired of his high profile life. He decides to take a couple of days off and go to his ranch. That is when he comes up with the idea ... See full summary »

Stars: Winston Rekert, Sam Sarkar, William S. Taylor, Peter Williams

Votes: 249

17. Out of the Wild (2019)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Out of the Wild is the story of Henry McBride, a down and out cowboy with a painful past he can't drink away. Living on his last dollar with nowhere to go, he ends up working the last place... See full summary »

Director: Paul Krizan | Stars: John Diehl, Jean Louisa Kelly, Benjamin Ashbrook, Kevin McCorkle

Votes: 620

18. The Golden Eye (1948)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Mystery

Chan discovers a conspiracy when a low paying gold mine seemingly starts to become profitable, and attempts are made on the owner's life.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Roland Winters, Wanda McKay, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 630

19. Never a Dull Moment (1950)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Sophisticated, successful New York City songwriter Kay Kingsley falls in love with Chris Hayward, a widower rancher she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo, and they get married and ... See full summary »

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Andy Devine

Votes: 697

20. Playing It Straight (2004– )

60 min | Reality-TV

Presented by Gustavo Goulart, Daphne Brogdon, and Brian Beacock, this reality show invites the audience to find out who's gay, among a group of people in a ranch. The winner is who better tricks the audience about his or her own sexuality.

Stars: Daphne Brogdon, Brian Beacock, Jackie Thomas, Garrett Swann

Votes: 204

21. Texas Tom (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Toots arrives at the ranch where Tom is tormenting Jerry, and Tom puts on all his best moves, though Jerry does his best to sabotage Tom.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Ken Darby, William Hanna, The King's Men

Votes: 1,297

22. Dick Francis: Blood Sport (1989 TV Movie)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cleveland teams with an insurance investigator in the search for a stolen $6 million dollar horse in the Canadian Rockies.

Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Ian McShane, Heath Lamberts, Lloyd Bochner, Kenneth Welsh

Votes: 92

23. Red River Range (1938)

Passed | 56 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Very organized cattle rustlers are operating with portable slaughterhouses and refrigerator vans. The governor asks the Three Mesquiteers to go undercover to investigate.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lorna Gray

Votes: 453

24. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)

Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.

Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine

Votes: 370

25. Vacation Days (1947)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Miss Hinklefink (Belle Mitchell) inherits a western ranch and, in order to spend the summer with Professor Owen Townley (Milton Kibbee), she invites students Freddie Trimball (Freddie ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Frankie Darro, Warren Mills

Votes: 96

26. Girl Crazy (1932)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Musical

New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Eddie Quillan

Votes: 305

27. Dude Duck (1951)

Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation

Donald is vacationing at a dude ranch. After all the beautiful women pick the best horses, Donald ends up with the sad sack Rover Boy. But Rover Boy wants nothing to do with Donald.

Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: James MacDonald, Clarence Nash

Votes: 434

28. Vacation in Reno (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Jack Haley, Anne Jeffreys, Wally Brown, Iris Adrian

Votes: 176

29. The Secret of Yolanda (1982)

85 min | Drama

A beautiful deaf-mute is courted by both her riding instructor and personal guardian in this hot-and-heavy romance story.

Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Asher Tzarfati, Shraga Harpaz, Shraga Lanzerer, Miri Aloni

Votes: 34

30. Womanhandled (1925)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams

Votes: 103

31. Take It Big (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A rancher puts on a show to raise money so he can save his dude ranch from bankruptcy.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Harriet Nelson, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Lane

Votes: 34

32. The Road to Reno (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Screwball comedy western about a socialite who wants divorced from a rancher.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Randolph Scott, Hope Hampton, Glenda Farrell, Helen Broderick

Votes: 52

33. Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport

This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed gambling city and vacation at a ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ralph Staub, Clara Bow, Rex Bell, Roy Rogers

Votes: 8

34. Blue Canadian Rockies (1952)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western

With the goal of preventing his daughter from marrying, Autry's boss sends him to Canada where she has started a dude ranch and wild game preserve.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Carolina Cotton

Votes: 103

35. Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch (2004 Video Game)

Adventure, Mystery, Romance

Teen detective Nancy Drew visits Shadow Ranch and investigates the mysterious accidents that follow sightings of a ghostly horse.

Director: Max Holechek | Stars: Lani Minella, Abby Murray, Patty Pomplun, Wayne Rawley

Votes: 125

36. Mystery Ranch (1934)

Approved | 56 min | Western

The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.

Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Tom Tyler, Roberta Gale, Louise Cabo, Jack Perrin

Votes: 93

37. Look-Out Sister (1947)

Approved | 63 min | Music, Western

A famous bandleader, suffering from overwork and exhaustion, goes to a sanitarium for a rest. While there he dreams of being out west at a dude ranch, where he finds himself involved in the... See full summary »

Director: Bud Pollard | Stars: Louis Jordan, Suzette Harbin, Monte Hawley, Bob Scott

Votes: 62

38. Father's Wild Game (1950)

61 min | Comedy

An irate citizen decides to trap his own game rather than pay outrageous store prices for meat.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Raymond Walburn, Walter Catlett, Gary Gray, Jane Darwell

Votes: 34

39. My Mother's Ghost (1996 TV Movie)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Ghostly apparitions threaten the stability of an already grieving family following their move to a haunted dude ranch.

Director: Elise Swerhone | Stars: Elisabeth Rosen, Gabrielle Rose, Barry Flatman, Janet Wright

Votes: 51

40. The Lucky Horseshoe (1925)

Passed | 50 min | Western

A ranch foreman, rebuffed by his boss' daughter, turns the ranch into a tourist mecca. The girl leaves the ranch, but eventually she returns with her new fiancé, who she says is a rich ... See full summary »

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Tom Mix, Billie Dove, Malcolm Waite, J. Farrell MacDonald

Votes: 32

41. 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

42. 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: 70

43. Border Outlaws (1950)

Passed | 57 min | Western

A mysterious masked outlaw called "The Phantom Horseman" terrorizes a county.

Director: Richard Talmadge | Stars: Spade Cooley, Maria Hart, Bill Edwards, Bill Kennedy

Votes: 22

44. Rocky Mountain Grandeur (1937)

Passed | 8 min | Documentary, Short

A visit to Rocky Mountain and Grand Teton National Parks and a nearby dude ranch in Colorado.

Director: James H. Smith | Star: James A. FitzPatrick

Votes: 85

45. Dude Ranch (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Western

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 62

46. West of Broadway (1926)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

When Bruce Elwood, a Wyoming rancher, hears that golf-champion Freddie Hayden is in an area golf tournament, he sends word that he would like Freddie to come teach golf lessons at his ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Arnold Gray, Majel Coleman, Walter Long

47. 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

48. Roaming Through Arizona (1944)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

This Traveltalks entry first stops at some architectural landmarks in Tucson, Phoenix, and Prescott. It then looks at the mining town of Jerome and some natural wonders, before ending in Wickenburg for a visit to a dude ranch and a rodeo.

Director: James A. FitzPatrick | Star: James A. FitzPatrick

Votes: 84

49. Singing on the Trail (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who's about to lose her ranch.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Ken Curtis, Jeff Donnell, Guy Kibbee, Dusty Anderson

Votes: 23

50. 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: 103