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1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Approved | 178 min | Adventure, Western

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè

Votes: 811,413 | Gross: $6.10M

2. Foyle's War (2002–2015)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.

Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington

Votes: 18,275

3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Willie Watson, Clancy Brown, Danny McCarthy

Votes: 168,244

4. 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: 49,480 | Gross: $33.20M

5. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

R | 132 min | Drama, Western

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a gang of outlaws led by a psychotic Mexican bandit, who is plotting an audacious bank robbery.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Mara Krupp

Votes: 274,740 | Gross: $15.00M

6. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product formerly mined in Death Valley.

Stars: Stanley Andrews, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Dale Robertson

Votes: 1,045

7. The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

Director: Martin Weisz | Stars: Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Michael Bailey Smith, Cécile Breccia

Votes: 67,657 | Gross: $20.80M

8. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen, Alfred Lutter III

Votes: 27,475 | Gross: $18.60M

9. The Andromeda Strain (1971)

G | 131 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid

Votes: 40,449 | Gross: $3.42M

10. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)

R | 92 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights.

Director: Ernest R. Dickerson | Stars: Billy Zane, William Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke

Votes: 26,316 | Gross: $21.09M

11. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack

Votes: 9,130 | Gross: $3.56M

12. Ace in the Hole (1951)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall

Votes: 39,125 | Gross: $3.97M

13. Gargoyles (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Horror

An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey

Votes: 3,773

14. Dead Man's Walk (1996)

PG-13 | 272 min | Western

In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove", two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that's on a mission to annex Santa Fe.

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Edward James Olmos

Votes: 1,932

15. Ride Lonesome (1959)

Approved | 73 min | Western

A bounty hunter (Randolph Scott) escorts a killer (James Best) to be tried for murder, but allows the man's outlaw brother (Lee Van Cleef) to catch up with them to have a showdown over a previous shocking murder.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts, James Best

Votes: 6,604

16. White Sands (1992)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small southwestern town Sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and five hundred thousand dollars. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an F.B.I. investigation.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson

Votes: 8,885 | Gross: $9.01M

17. Nightwing (1979)

PG | 105 min | Horror

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht

Votes: 1,731

18. Roswell (1994 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Xander Berkeley

Votes: 2,718

19. Dual Survival (2010–2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Game-Show, Reality-TV

Two survival experts, with very different mindsets, pair up and use their tactics to collaborate and overcome the challenges they face.

Stars: Cody Lundin, Paul Christie, Joe Teti, Dave Canterbury

Votes: 3,360

20. Beyond the Reach (2014)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

In the Mojave Desert, a naked and unarmed hunting guide runs from a wealthy hunter who wants to ensure his silence in the death of an old man.

Director: Jean-Baptiste Léonetti | Stars: Michael Douglas, Jeremy Irvine, Martin Palmer, Hanna Mangan Lawrence

Votes: 11,093 | Gross: $0.04M

21. Unearthed (2007)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Beau Garrett, Deborah Offner

Votes: 3,873

22. The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)

PG | 92 min | Horror

A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman, Ahna Capri

Votes: 1,906

23. Off the Map (2003)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.

Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Valentina de Angelis, Joan Allen, Sam Elliott, Amy Brenneman

Votes: 3,435 | Gross: $1.31M

24. Bearcats! (1971)

120 min | Action, Adventure, War

Two honorable men-for-hire look for adventure in the pre-World War I American southwest in their fancy Stutz Bearcat.

Stars: Rod Taylor, Dennis Cole, Henry Darrow, Leslie Nielsen

Votes: 227

25. Silent Tongue (1993)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Western

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

Director: Sam Shepard | Stars: Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.06M

26. Dreamland (I) (2006)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama

A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

Director: Jason Matzner | Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Kelli Garner, Justin Long, John Corbett

Votes: 2,526 | Gross: $0.00M

27. Thunder (1983)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A native American named Thunder returns home only to find that his ancestral burial ground is being destroyed by construction workers. He tries to put a stop to it, but the law is not only ... See full summary »

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Bo Svenson, Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Valeria Cavalli

Votes: 599

28. A Thief of Time (2003 TV Movie)

94 min | Crime, Mystery

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.

Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Gary Farmer, Adam Beach, Ernest Tsosie III, Wes Studi

Votes: 709

29. UFO Hunters (I) (2008–2009)

Documentary, History, Sci-Fi

Follows a group of experts as they scrutinize some of history's most intriguing UFO accounts.

Stars: Bill Birnes, Patrick Uskert, Ted Acworth, James Lurie

Votes: 1,015

30. Buffalo Dreams (2005 TV Movie)

G | 89 min | Family

Schoolboy Josh Townsend has to move again with his father, astrophysics researcher Dr. Nick Townsend, to a New Mexico small town. To escape the copy-boy job dad arranged, Josh volunteers ... See full summary »

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Reiley McClendon, Simon Baker, George Newbern, Jane Sibbett

Votes: 607

31. Southwest Passage (1954)

Approved | 75 min | Western

The U.S. Cavalry is ordered to test the feasability of camels in the deserts of the Southwest.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rod Cameron, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, John Dehner

Votes: 449

32. Two Men in Town (2014)

R | 117 min | Drama

A Muslim ex-con forms a friendship with his parole officer.

Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Brenda Blethyn, Luis Guzmán, Dolores Heredia

Votes: 2,280

33. Linewatch (2008)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A US Border Patrol agent is recognized by members of the vicious LA gang he used to be a part of and is forced to help them smuggle drugs into the country.

Director: Kevin Bray | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Omari Hardwick, Evan Ross, Dean Norris

Votes: 3,050

34. Nakia (1974)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Nakia Parker is a Native American serving as a deputy to Sam Jericho in New Mexico. Choosing an old truck or a horse over a police vehicle, he also combines tribal traditions with modern crime techniques.

Stars: Robert Forster, Arthur Kennedy, Taylor Lacher, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 81

35. Bisbee '17 (2018)

PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap

Votes: 714 | Gross: $0.12M

36. Column South (1953)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins

Votes: 730

37. Seduced by Evil (1994 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

New Mexican warlock Cerio goads working mother Leigh Lindsey into a sexual affair.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Suzanne Somers, James Sikking, John Vargas, Mindy Spence

Votes: 167

38. Dead of Night (2018– )

Crime

'Dead of Night' features nail-biting true stories of victims working the graveyard shift who are thrust into real-life nightmares. A killer lies in wait to strike the most vulnerable, those... See full summary »

Stars: Bill Ratner, Marisol Correa, Camden Zapf, Vince Eisenson

Votes: 106

39. Wild Youth (1960)

Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Three teenage criminals break out of juvenile prison and head south to Mexico.

Director: John F. Schreyer | Stars: Robert Hutton, John Goddard, Carol Ohmart, Clancy Cooper

Votes: 144

40. Thunder II (1987)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Drama

Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and ... See full summary »

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Karen Reel, Bo Svenson

Votes: 284

41. Thunder III (1988)

TV-PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Pacifist Native American warrior, Thunder, takes on a racist militia in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after they refuse to pay $53.000 in damages for attacking and abusing him and his people and destroying their property.

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Mark Gregory, John Phillip Law, Horst Schön, Werner Pochath

Votes: 213

42. Taos (2008)

89 min | Drama

A young attorney works round-the-clock to meet his fiancée's desires and avoid his own. When an unexpected detour throws a wrench in his non-stop schedule, old wounds are unearthed as new ... See full summary »

Director: Brandon Schmid | Stars: Frederick Aragon, Robert Deane, Julie Dorris, Rib Hillis

Votes: 16

43. The Dark Rider (2012)

29 min | Short, Western

A lone rider makes his way through the desert in hopes to bring death to the bandits responsible for his brothers demise. Will vengeance be his or will he suffer the same fate as his brother?

Director: Aaron Alviso Stephenson | Stars: Andy Fernuik, Roger Benally, Mike Gaba, Jim Martin

Votes: 6

44. Atomic Explosion Heard in Russia (1949)

2 min | Documentary, Short, News

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Stars: Leslie Mitchell, Dean Acheson, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov

45. La maison vide (2009)

52 min | Documentary

A glimpse at life in a rural Hispanic-American community located in New, Mexico.

Director: Stéphane Breton

46. Remembered Earth: New Mexico's High Desert (2005 TV Movie)

G | 27 min | Documentary

New Mexico's high desert is a captivating land of hallowed mountains, red rock canyons and vast, sere plateaus. In Remembered Earth, filmmaker John Grabowska and Indian author N. Scott ... See full summary »

Director: John Grabowska | Star: Irene Bedard

Votes: 31

47. The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode: All the Scared Rabbits (1965)

TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A woman hires Kimble to drive her daughter and herself to California. The young girl has a rabbit with her that had been a test subject in a research study and is infected with meningitis.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: David Janssen, Suzanne Pleshette, R.G. Armstrong, Liam Sullivan

Votes: 175

48. The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode: The Leeches (1967)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

David Vincent meets with the president of an electronics company, a man who believes aliens have kidnapped various heads of their fields and are planning to kidnap him as well.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Peter Mark Richman, Diana Van der Vlis, Arthur Hill

Votes: 256

49. The Time Tunnel (1966–1967)
Episode: Billy the Kid (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Landing in 1881 New Mexico in the middle of a jailbreak of Billy the Kid, to defend Tony Doug shoots at Billy who escapes swearing to hunt down Doug. According to their research back at the... See full summary »

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: James Darren, Robert Colbert, Robert Walker Jr., Allen Case

Votes: 172

50. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode: The Hitch-Hiker (1960)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.

Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Inger Stevens, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Leonard Strong

Votes: 5,234