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1. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,920 | Gross: $119.50M
2. Silverado (1985)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette
Votes: 49,667 | Gross: $33.20M
3. Breakdown (I) (1997)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey
Votes: 62,034 | Gross: $50.13M
4. Tank (1984)
PG | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier
Votes: 4,693 | Gross: $14.13M
5. Bandolero! (1968)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Western
Mace Bishop (James Stewart) masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother, Dee (Dean Martin), from the gallows, runs to Mexico chased by Sheriff July Johnson's (George Kennedy's) posse and fights against Mexican bandits.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch, George Kennedy
Votes: 5,754
6. Rio Lobo (1970)
G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam
Votes: 13,710 | Gross: $9.27M
7. Leprechaun (1992)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
Director: Mark Jones | Stars: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton
Votes: 30,594 | Gross: $8.56M
8. Psycho II (1983)
R | 113 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia
Votes: 31,198 | Gross: $34.73M
9. Cherry Falls (1999)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the small town of Cherry Falls, a psychotic murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school.
Director: Geoffrey Wright | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Jesse Bradford
Votes: 14,812
10. Red Rock West (1993)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter is mistaken for a hitman, but when the real hitman arrives, complications ensue.
Director: John Dahl | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, Craig Reay
Votes: 25,322 | Gross: $2.50M
11. Knockaround Guys (2001)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
Directors: Brian Koppelman, David Levien | Stars: Jennifer Baxter, Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper
Votes: 24,917 | Gross: $11.63M
12. Lake Placid 2 (2007 TV Movie)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake, as two males and one aggressive female crocodile protecting their nest wreak havoc on the locals.
Director: David Flores | Stars: John Schneider, Sarah Lafleur, Sam McMurray, Chad Michael Collins
Votes: 7,460
13. The Great Silence (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Western
A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Vonetta McGee
Votes: 18,188 | Gross: $0.05M
14. Stan Against Evil (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An aging police sheriff begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
Stars: John C. McGinley, Janet Varney, Deborah Baker Jr., Nate Mooney
Votes: 6,539
15. Diabolique (1996)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates
Votes: 15,406 | Gross: $17.10M
16. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones
Votes: 41,928 | Gross: $5.02M
17. Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
G | 117 min | Comedy, Western
Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.
Director: Enzo Barboni | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer, Enzo Tarascio
Votes: 17,466
18. Rancho Notorious (1952)
Approved | 89 min | Western
After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry
Votes: 5,567
19. Return to Mayberry (1986 TV Movie)
TV-G | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there, he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for Sheriff.
Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors
Votes: 1,180
20. The Bravados (1958)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Western
A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail, but they escape to Mexico.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi
Votes: 6,506
21. Gunfighters (1947)
Passed | 87 min | Western
Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 924
22. Abilene Town (1946)
Approved | 89 min | Western
A sheriff tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming
Votes: 1,318
23. Not Forgotten (2009)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
In a Tex-Mex border town, a man and his wife must face their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter.
Director: Dror Soref | Stars: Simon Baker, Paz Vega, Michael DeLorenzo, Chloë Grace Moretz
Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.05M
24. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,759
25. The Spider (1958)
Passed | 73 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
Teenagers from a rural community and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Ed Kemmer, June Kenney, Eugene Persson, Gene Roth
Votes: 3,423
26. Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
M | 94 min | Drama, Western
A Texas town's council fires the town's old-fashioned marshal who refuses to resign, thus leading to violence from both sides.
Directors: Don Siegel, Robert Totten | Stars: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu
Votes: 1,632
27. Young Billy Young (1969)
G | 89 min | Action, Romance, Western
In New Mexico, looking for his son's murderer, Ben Kane takes a deputy marshal's job and runs into young Billy Young who's on the lam.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Angie Dickinson, Robert Walker Jr., David Carradine
Votes: 1,495 | Gross: $0.22M
28. Sheriff Callie's Wild West (2013–2017)
TV-Y | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A kids' western centered on a kitty-cat sheriff whose job is to ensure that the town of Nice and Friendly Corners remains the friendliest town in the West.
Stars: Mandy Moore, Lucas Grabeel, Jessica DiCicco, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 807
29. Devil's Angels (1967)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An exiled band of Hell's Angels strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a local town, let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sparks off a full scale Angel war.
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: John Cassavetes, Beverly Adams, Mimsy Farmer, Maurice McEndree
Votes: 579
30. Moonrise (1948)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 2,986
31. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas
Votes: 2,410
32. Fear in the Night (1946)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott, Ann Doran
Votes: 1,818
33. The Moonshine War (1970)
GP | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda, Melodie Johnson
Votes: 683
34. Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968)
GP | 95 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A man released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
Director: Tonino Cervi | Stars: Brett Halsey, Bud Spencer, Wayde Preston, Jeff Cameron
Votes: 1,731
35. A Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Sent to Montana to hunt down bank robbers, a bounty hunter takes the star off a replacement sheriff who didn't reach his destination and steps into a range war between farmers and cattlemen.
Directors: León Klimovsky, Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Gloria Osuna, Ennio Girolami, Joe Kamel
Votes: 523
36. Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972)
90 min | Comedy, Western
An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Agren, Dieter Eppler
Votes: 281
37. Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Aldrich Bowker
Votes: 848
38. The Price of Power (1969)
90 min | Drama, Western
In Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners who murdered his father, his friend and the President.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Warren Vanders, María Cuadra, Rai Sanders
Votes: 923
39. The Silver Star (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Western
A frontier marshal doubts his own courage when three gunmen threaten his town.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Edgar Buchanan, Marie Windsor, Lon Chaney Jr., Earle Lyon
Votes: 131
40. Lone and Angry Man (1965)
87 min | Drama, Western
Spaghetti Western icon Anthony Steffen stars as Shenandoah, a man of mystery who joins a vicious band of highwaymen after passing a near impossible and death defying initiation. When the ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Arturo Dominici, Luciana Gilli
Votes: 339
41. Noose for a Gunman (1960)
Approved | 69 min | Western
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Jim Davis, Lyn Thomas, Ted de Corsia, Barton MacLane
Votes: 318
42. Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
The novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job done?
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jean Harlow
Votes: 771
44. Gallagher's Gallery (1992 Video Game)
Action, Comedy
Laserdisc arcade based on the prop comedy act of comedian Gallagher. Various objects like cans, jars and devices are shown and Gallagher tells the player which ones to shoot. The final level is a play on Gallagher's famous fruit act.
Directors: David O. Roberts, Barry Kirk | Star: Gallagher
45.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When Sheriff Roy Coffee and Ben are subpoenaed to testify in a land-sharking trial in San Francisco, Hoss is appointed the acting sheriff of Virginia City. Hoss soon finds plenty of trouble... See full summary »
Director: Don Richardson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary
Votes: 94
46.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
North Star
(2003)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Enterprise investigates a previously unknown colony of humans who are living in the fashion of the American Old West. They are oppressing an alien race called the Skagarans.
Director: David Straiton | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,766
47.
The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967–1969)
Episode:
Of Lasting Summers and Jim Sonnett
(1967)
22 min | Western
Hearing Jim Sonnett is to be hanged, Will and Jeff hurry to a Western town. A man says he is Jim. Will disputes it but Jeff believes. The Sheriff fears they will try to break him out. The carnival atmosphere in the town unhinges Jeff.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Walter Brennan, Dack Rambo, Paul Richards, Peter Whitney
Votes: 20
48.
Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode:
Innocent Man
(1992)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Immortal and former Confederate Captain Lucas Desiree was killed after many years of solitary retreat. A Vietnam's War Veteran partially insane is accused of his murder. Duncan decides to investigate.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss
Votes: 284
49.
Hunter (1984–1991)
Episode:
A Long Way from L.A.
(1984)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the ... See full summary »
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer, Bo Svenson, Paul Eiding
Votes: 178
50.
Kim Possible (2002–2007)
Episode:
Showdown at the Crooked D
(2005)
TV-G | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Wacko bad guys Kim can handle, but a little cousin who's her biggest fan? Drakken plots to make himself the smartest person on the planet... by turning the world's top minds into drooling idiots.
Director: David Block | Stars: Christy Carlson Romano, Will Friedle, Nancy Cartwright, Tahj Mowry
Votes: 139