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1. The Quick and the Dead (1995)

R | 108 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio

Votes: 102,856 | Gross: $18.64M

2. Moonraker (1979)

PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel

Votes: 108,802 | Gross: $70.31M

3. In the Fire (2023)

R | 87 min | Thriller

A doctor travels to a remote plantation to care for a disturbed boy who has inexplicable abilities. She ignites a war of science versus religion with the local priest who believes the boy is possessed by the Devil.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: Amber Heard, Eduardo Noriega, Sophie Amber, Luca Calvani

Votes: 3,979

4. Black God, White Devil (1964)

Not Rated | 120 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

After killing his employer when he tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.

Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle

Votes: 5,354

5. My Darling Clementine (1946)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs

Votes: 25,757

6. The Appaloosa (1966)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Man tries to recover a horse stolen from him by a Mexican bandit.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Marlon Brando, Anjanette Comer, John Saxon, Emilio Fernández

Votes: 3,557

7. Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Approved | 116 min | Western

During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 2,737

8. Lone Star State of Mind (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime

A young Texas mechanic (Jackson) tries to save a dim-witted relative from the mob. There's also something about the murderer of the mechanic's father, who's been in prison for 20 years, thanks to histestimony as a child.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Jaime King, Matthew Davis, Ryan Hurst

Votes: 3,233

9. San Antonio (1945)

Passed | 109 min | Western

Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.

Directors: David Butler, Robert Florey, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Victor Francen

Votes: 1,844

10. The Brave One (1956)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Family

A young boy named Leonardo adopts a bull after saving it during a storm, but their friendship is soon threatened by the legal owners of the animal who claim ownership of it and ship it off to the bullring to face a legendary bullfighter.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa Cárdenas, Carlos Navarro

Votes: 1,092

11. The Young Land (1959)

Approved | 89 min | Western

An American gunslinger kills a Mexican man in California immediately after the Mexican-American war. The killer is arrested and put on trial for murder with the Hispanic population waiting to learn of American justice.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 347

12. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War

An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard

Votes: 3,548 | Gross: $9.20M

13. Bless Me, Ultima (2012)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Miriam Colon, Benito Martinez

Votes: 1,592 | Gross: $1.55M

14. In Old Arizona (1928)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Western

A charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta

Votes: 1,294 | Gross: $2.83M

15. 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: 785

16. 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: 182

17. Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Passed | 90 min | Romance, 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

18. The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)

Approved | 79 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle are being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.

Directors: Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Stars: Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro

Votes: 1,880

19. 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: 1,020

20. The Big Stampede (1932)

Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western

Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.

Director: Tenny Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Noah Beery, Paul Hurst, Mae Madison

Votes: 681

21. 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: 140

22. Rio Rita (1929)

Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Western

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey

Votes: 764

23. Gallant Journey (1946)

Passed | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History

This historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janet Blair, Charles Ruggles, Henry Travers

Votes: 289

24. The Black Coin (1936)

Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen

Votes: 81

25. Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Romance, Western

Set in 19th century California Marcos Zappa goes undercover as a pirate to expose the crooked Don Pedro Garcia.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish, Gilbert Roland

Votes: 248

26. The Santa Fe Trail (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

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Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 27

27. The Yankee Señor (1926)

Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western

A cowboy (Tom Mix) estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty (Olive Borden)

Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Olive Borden, Tom Kennedy

28. Beyond the Sierras (1928)

Passed | 63 min | Western

The U.S. Government sends an undercover-agent to California in the days when American land-thieves were preying upon Sanish families holding rich land-grants from the Spanish Crown. Don ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Tim McCoy, Sylvia Beecher, Roy D'Arcy, Polly Moran

29. The Californian (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Action, History, Romance

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver, Katherine DeMille, Maurice Black

Votes: 61

30. Under a Texas Moon (1930)

Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Frank Fay, Raquel Torres, Myrna Loy, Armida

Votes: 108

31. Beauty and the Bull (1954)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Action, Sport

While vacationing in Mexico, fashion model Bette Ford attends a bullfight and a bull breeding ranch event. She becomes intrigued with the art of bullfighting and gets training leading to her first professional appearance in the bullring.

Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: Bette Ford, Marvin Miller, Pepe Ortiz

Votes: 129

32. The Cavalier (1928)

Passed | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story takes place in old Mexico, where a masked rider (Talmadge) and an impoverished girl (Bedford) fall in love, against her father's wishes. When she leaves with him, her father sends... See full synopsis »

Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Barbara Bedford, Nora Cecil, David Torrence

Votes: 21

33. The Girl and the Gambler (1939)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Learning of a certain cantina dancer, notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her back voluntarily that night. Arriving, he learns that she loves the craps table operator Johnny Powell. ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt, Steffi Duna, Donald MacBride

Votes: 47

34. Captain Courtesy (1915)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1840, while California is ruled by Mexico, American settlers are in constant danger from Mexican marauders. After a band of Mexican soldiers led by American renegade George Granville ... See full summary »

Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Courtenay Foote, Herbert Standing

Votes: 17

35. A Neckin' Party (1937)

Approved | 11 min | Comedy, Western, Short

Edgar Bergen and his wooden dummy, Charlie McCarthy, tired of night life, go do a dude ranch, in Mexico, for rest and recreation. Charlie's recreation, however, consists of flirting with a ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd

Votes: 114

36. For the Soul of Rafael (1920)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Marta Estevan is ready to leave the convent where she has been reared. Dona Luisa Artega, mother of Rafael and the young girl's guardian, arranges a marriage between the two, because she ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Garson | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Bertram Grassby, Eugenie Besserer, Juan de la Cruz

Votes: 16

37. Polish Cowboy Rides Again (1976)

PG | Family, Music

'Inspiration' or 'Polish Cowboy Rides Again," starring Jack Patton, the Polish Cowboy, is a riot of fun filmed on 3 continents. See the greatest action riders: Vaqueros (No. 1 Cowboys in ... See full summary »

Director: Zygmunt Sulistrowski | Stars: Jack Patton, Zygmunt Sulistrowski, Betty Delmar

38. Devil's Canyon (1935)

Approved | Western

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Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Miami Alvarez, William Desmond, Pat Carlisle

39. Señor Americano (1929)

Passed | 71 min | Western

A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico.

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Ken Maynard, Kathryn Crawford, Frank Beal, Frank Yaconelli

Votes: 13

40. Drifting Westward (1939)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western

Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the third midnight raid on his home, Don Careta... See full summary »

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Jack Randall, Rusty the Horse, Frank Yaconelli, Edna Duran

41. Corazón Vaquero: The Heart of the Cowboy (2008)

Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary

Corazon Vaquero is a definitive glimpse into the lives of the Californios, a people whose roots reach back 300 years to the original missionary soldiers of California's Spanish Frontier. ... See full summary »

Director: Cody McClintock | Stars: Harry Crosby, Eve Ewing, Garry McClintock, Fermin Reygadas

42. Ready to Ride (1950)

Approved | 30 min | Short, Action, Drama

In this 30-minute remake of Universal's 1938 "Outlaw Express" and filled from front to back with footage edited from that film, Tex Williams (Tex Williams) is a United States Army officer ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Donna Martell

43. The Flying U Ranch (1927)

Passed | 50 min | Drama, Western

Migual Garcia, a somewhat arrogant Spaniard, alienates pretty much all of the residents of the Flying U Ranch except the owner's young son, Chip Bennett. Dunk Whitaker, who owns a ... See full summary »

Director: Robert De Lacey | Stars: Tom Tyler, Nora Lane, Bert Hadley, Grace Woods

Votes: 17

44. The Primal Law (1921)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A stirring tale of a plotter's efforts to force cattle ranchers to sell their holdings cheap, while keeping them ignorant of the fact that the land contains great oil wealth.

Director: Bernard J. Durning | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Mary Thurman, Harry Dunkinson, Philo McCullough

45. Born to Fight (1956)

Approved | 15 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

A showcase of bullfighting in Portugal, explaining how the country's version of the sport differs from those in Spain and Latin America and helps define the national character. After ... See full summary »

Director: Van Campen Heilner | Stars: Dwight Weist, Mascareñas, Jose Rosa Rodrigues, Marshall Thompson

Votes: 76

46. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The retelling of an incident in Gonzales, Texas in 1901 revolving around a stolen horse, mistaken identity and a killing. An unusual story of the all too usual exploitation of the powerless in Texas History.

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Edward James Olmos, James Gammon, Tom Bower, Bruce McGill

Votes: 1,033 | Gross: $0.80M

47. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Count Me In, Count Me Out (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Count Peter is a charming rascal in Old California who expects to marry the beautiful heiress of a wealthy Don. But first he must serve a brief stint in a jail he designed and clear up a misunderstanding that might get him killed.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Carl Schell, Jay Novello, Eddie Firestone, Judy Cannon

Votes: 26