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51. Thunder Over the Plains (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Western

In Post-Bellum Texas, an army captain tries to keep the peace between overtaxed, impoverished farmers and greedy carpetbaggers.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw

Votes: 960

52. Hard Target 2 (2016 Video)

R | 104 min | Action, Thriller

Wes is slumming it in Bangkok 6 months after killing his best friend in a match in Vegas. He's tricked into Myanmar's jungle, where he's the fox in rich people's hunt.

Director: Roel Reiné | Stars: Scott Adkins, Robert Knepper, Rhona Mitra, Ann Truong

Votes: 6,642

53. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure

An extension of the previous film, wherein a group of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle

Votes: 5,884

54. Stage Mother (2020)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A conservative church choir director inherits her late son's San Francisco drag club.

Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor

Votes: 3,076

55. Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Western

During the Civil War, a group of Confederates escapes from the Union POW camp at Fort Bravo but has to contend with the desert, the Mescalero Apaches and the pursuing Union troops.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest

Votes: 3,156 | Gross: $1.45M

56. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones

Votes: 8,310 | Gross: $4.81M

57. Eddie (1996)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Sport

Coincidences lead to the New York Knicks, getting its loudest fan, Edwina "Eddie" Franklin, as coach. Season victory?

Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Langella, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins

Votes: 11,462 | Gross: $31.36M

58. 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: 3,570

59. Decision at Sundown (1957)

Approved | 77 min | Western

Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French

Votes: 3,496

60. Flying Tigers (1942)

Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.

Director: David Miller | Stars: John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly

Votes: 4,263 | Gross: $3.27M

61. Beneath the Darkness (2011)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.

Director: Martin Guigui | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Tony Oller, Aimee Teegarden, Stephen Ford

Votes: 6,355

62. The Video Dead (1987 Video)

R | 90 min | Horror

A family takes delivery of a new television set, unaware that it is the gateway by which killer zombies enter the world.

Director: Robert Scott | Stars: Michael St. Michaels, Thaddeus Golas, Douglass Bell, Al Millan

Votes: 4,758

63. Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama

A fan club of die-hard James Dean fans meet on the 20th anniversary of his death and reconnect, opening old wounds and facing new ones.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, Sudie Bond

Votes: 5,182 | Gross: $0.84M

64. Three Young Texans (1954)

Approved | 77 min | Western

Two cowhands fall for their boss' daughter but due to a gambling incident one gets involved with 2 hoods in robbing a payroll train.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Mitzi Gaynor, Keefe Brasselle, Jeffrey Hunter, Harvey Stephens

Votes: 195

65. Palm Springs Weekend (1963)

Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

College students on spring break in Palm Springs pursue romantic entanglements. Jim falls for Bunny, Biff for Amanda. Gayle poses as a student while Eric courts her. Their coach flirts with a motel owner amid her son's antics.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 1,196

66. Brother Orchid (1940)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp

Votes: 3,200

67. Halls of Montezuma (1951)

Approved | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A company of Marines races against the clock to find a Japanese rocket base.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner

Votes: 2,961

68. From Hell to Texas (1958)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Romance, Western

After ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 1,161

69. Point Blank (1998)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ... See full summary »

Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer

Votes: 1,924

70. She Gets What She Wants (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

A French foreign-exchange student comes to a small Texas high school, befriends a classmate, and practically takes over her life.

Director: Melanie Mayron | Stars: Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Michael McKean, Trent Ford

Votes: 5,847

71. The King (2005)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father Dave, whom he's never met. He is the pastor at a Christian community church. He tells Elvis ... See full summary »

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Derek Alvarado

Votes: 7,475 | Gross: $0.28M

72. Search for Beauty (1934)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason

Votes: 748

73. Come Fly with Me (1963)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Romance

Three flight attendants combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for rich, handsome men to marry.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dolores Hart, Hugh O'Brian, Karlheinz Böhm, Pamela Tiffin

Votes: 825

74. Deep in the Heart (1983)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

Director: Tony Garnett | Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann

Votes: 433

75. Busted (1997 Video)

R | 85 min | Comedy

In the town of Amity, the cops take crime off of the streets and put it into the police station where it belongs.

Director: Corey Feldman | Stars: Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Dominick Brascia, Mariana Morgan

Votes: 878

76. Never Get Busted! (2024– )

208 min | Documentary, Crime | Post-production

Barry Cooper was one of Texas' top narcotics officers, that is until he turned against the police force: exposing crooked cops, helping addicts evade arrest and picking a one man fight with the War on Drugs.

Star: Barry Neal Cooper

77. Metropia (2009)

TV-14 | 86 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

A complex story of a misaligned man, though good intent, creating a nightmarish Dystopian existence.

Director: Tarik Saleh | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 8,128

78. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western

Texan Tom Buchanan is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch, but when he stops in the crooked town of Agry, he's robbed and framed for murder.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley, Tol Avery

Votes: 3,244

79. Christmas Truce (2015 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama

An American soldier and a Belgian woman fall in love during a brief holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge. When fighting resumes, they promise to reunite on the first Christmas after the war ends if they're both alive.

Director: Brian Skiba | Stars: Craig Olejnik, Ali Liebert, Kate Vernon, Josh Blacker

Votes: 508

80. WrestleMania X-Seven (2001 TV Special)

TV-14 | 225 min | Action, Sport

The Rock defends the WWF Championship against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz, and Edge and Christian battle it out in a TLC match for the WWF Tag Team ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Steve Austin, Adam Copeland, Jay Reso

Votes: 2,566

81. Black Legion (1937)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Votes: 3,936

82. Dangerous Passage (1944)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack La Rue

Votes: 391

83. Two Ninas (1999)

R | 88 min | Romance, Comedy

When two beautiful women fall for the unluckiest guy in the world his life takes on delicious complications.

Director: Neil Turitz | Stars: Amanda Peet, Ron Livingston, Bray Poor, Leigh Whitney

Votes: 1,123 | Gross: $0.01M

84. 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

85. Wheeler (2017)

PG | 100 min | Drama

An aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music.

Director: Ryan Ross | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Audrey Spillman, Bobby Tomberlin

Votes: 513

86. Man Without a Star (1955)

Approved | 89 min | Western

Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell

Votes: 3,953

87. Kill the Umpire (1950)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Sport

An umpire-hating ex-baseball player loses many jobs because of his passion for watching ball games during working hours, but he decides to combine business with pleasure by becoming an umpire himself.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: William Bendix, Una Merkel, Ray Collins, Gloria Henry

Votes: 634

88. Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)

Passed | 87 min | Western

A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson, John McIntire

Votes: 1,294

89. One Starry Christmas (2014 TV Movie)

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

When journeying by bus to surprise her boyfriend for Christmas, Holly meets a charming cowboy who accompanies her.

Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Sarah Carter, Damon Runyan, Paul Popowich, Kathleen Laskey

Votes: 2,339

90. Breakfast for Two (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance

Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore

Votes: 1,200

91. WrestleMania 22 (2006 TV Special)

TV-14 | 233 min | Sport

The Grandest Stage of Them All came back to the former Rosemont Horizon outside Chicago for WrestleMania 22, which featured John Cena defends the WWE Championship against Triple H. Kurt ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: John Cena, Paul Levesque, Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio

Votes: 1,477

92. Break to Freedom (1953)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, War

In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester

Votes: 480

93. The Crystal Ball (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A woman becomes a fortune teller after losing a beauty contest.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field

Votes: 822

94. Texas Carnival (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller

Votes: 571

95. Viva Max (1969)

G | 93 min | Comedy

In the 1960s, a screwy Mexican General and his troops cross into Texas to re-capture the Alamo from the Gringos but they face opposition from the local police, the National Guard and the U.S. State Department.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin

Votes: 555

96. Montana (1950)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Western

An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, and is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.

Directors: Ray Enright, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy

Votes: 1,380

97. A Texas Funeral (1999)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In Texas in the late '60s, the Whit family meets for the funeral of grandfather Sparta. This, however, is no normal funeral, and the Whits are no normal family. Young L'il Sparta spies on ... See full summary »

Director: William Blake Herron | Stars: Quinton Jones, Robert Patrick, Jane Adams, Martin Sheen

Votes: 800

98. The Spruces and the Pines (2017 TV Movie)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Julie (Jonna Walsh) and Rick (Nick Ballard) fall in love despite being on opposite sides of feuding Christmas-tree-farm families.

Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Jonna Walsh, Nick Ballard, Tom Kemp, Ken Cheeseman

Votes: 1,124

99. The Shopworn Angel (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel

Votes: 1,664

100. Shut Up & Sing (2006)

R | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A documentary on the The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' anti-George W. Bush statement at a 2003 concert.

Directors: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck | Stars: Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire, Clayton Allen

Votes: 4,993 | Gross: $1.22M