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1. My Bloody Valentine (2009)

R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he's innocent.

Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Jensen Ackles, Jaime King, Kerr Smith, Betsy Rue

Votes: 60,502 | Gross: $51.55M

2. Butterfly (1981)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine.

Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton

Votes: 1,559

3. High Society (1956)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm

Votes: 17,553 | Gross: $13.00M

4. Silver River (1948)

Passed | 110 min | Romance, Western

After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 1,548

5. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan

Votes: 6,274 | Gross: $0.55M

6. The Molly Maguires (1970)

M | 124 min | Drama, History

In 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay

Votes: 4,335 | Gross: $0.22M

7. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004 Video)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer's ancestor, Hiram.

Director: S.S. Wilson | Stars: Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago, Brent Roam

Votes: 14,108

8. The Corn Is Green (1945)

Approved | 115 min | Drama

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams

Votes: 3,224

9. A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)

Unrated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, History

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov

Votes: 2,562

10. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,751 | Gross: $0.38M

11. The Badlanders (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Western

Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly

Votes: 1,688

12. The Goddess of 1967 (2000)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Distraught Japanese businessman obsessed with Citroën DS (French car brand nicknamed Goddess) and a troubled blind 17-year-old Aussie girl who promised to sell him one drive through the Australian Outback to kill her abusive grandfather.

Director: Clara Law | Stars: Rose Byrne, Rikiya Kurokawa, Nicholas Hope, Elise McCredie

Votes: 1,936

13. A Life of Her Own (1950)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery

A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern

Votes: 1,351

14. Gunsight Ridge (1957)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards

Votes: 735

15. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955)

101 min | Drama, Romance

Adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic risqué novel about an aristocratic wife who has a passionate affair with her gamekeeper.

Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, Erno Crisa, Janine Crispin

Votes: 206

16. The Black Doll (1938)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Dishonest mine owner Nicholas Rood finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his ... See full summary »

Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, C. Henry Gordon

Votes: 246

17. The Last Ones (2020)

117 min | Drama

A struggling mine owner supplies his workers with drugs so they'll forget a tough existence. Nearby a small community of reindeer breeders also struggles.This critique of capitalism unfolds against a Western like Lapland landscape.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu | Stars: Pääru Oja, Laura Birn, Tommi Korpela, Elmer Bäck

Votes: 558

18. Flaming Feather (1952)

Approved | 77 min | Western

In Arizona,during the 1870s, rancher Tex McCloud and cavalry Lt. Tom Blaine race to capture the famous renegade outlaw Ute leader known as the Sidewinder.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Forrest Tucker, Arleen Whelan, Barbara Rush

Votes: 440

19. Tornado (1943)

Approved | 83 min | Drama

Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwen Kenyon

Votes: 126

20. Aquí está Heraclio Bernal! (1958)

85 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Don Jesus Bernal (padre de Heraclio) regresa al pueblo de Sinaloa con su familia. Los Bernal descubren una beta y la registran como de su propiedad, los franceses tratan de adueñarse de ella, pero Heraclio jura hacer justicia y vengarse.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Elda Peralta, Rodolfo Landa, Ángel Infante

Votes: 17

21. Haunted Harbor (1944)

Passed | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Stars: Kane Richmond, Kay Aldridge, Roy Barcroft, Clancy Cooper

Votes: 102

22. Letters from Marusia (1975)

110 min | Drama, History

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas

Votes: 365

23. The End of the World (1916)

77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.

Director: August Blom | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Carl Lauritzen, Ebba Thomsen, Johanne Fritz-Petersen

Votes: 418

24. Hell's Outpost (1954)

Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A Korean war veteran attempts to help a small town mine owner develop his tungsten mine in spite of efforts by the town boss to stop him.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, Chill Wills, John Russell

Votes: 138

25. Thunderbolt (1935)

Approved | 55 min | Western

A pair of crooked deputies steal a gold shipment, murder a young boy's father and pin the blame on a cowboy. The murdered man's son and his dog set out to prove the cowboy's innocence.

Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Lobo the Marvel Dog, Kane Richmond, Bobby Nelson, Fay McKenzie

26. Too Many Kisses (1925)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard

Votes: 251

27. Canyon Crossroads (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

During the 1950s, a mining engineer is hired by an investor-scientist to prospect for uranium deposits in Utah but their effort is sabotaged by a murderous local mine-owner who wants to jump their claim.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Richard Basehart, Phyllis Kirk, Stephen Elliott, Russell Collins

Votes: 119

28. The Man from Hell (1934)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Reb Russell, Rebel, Fred Kohler, Ann Darcy

Votes: 72

29. The Hills of Utah (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Western

New town doctor Gene has lots to do because there's a war going on between the cattle ranchers and the copper miners.

Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Elaine Riley, Donna Martell

Votes: 119

30. Fair Warning (1937)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

In California's Death Valley, a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian

Votes: 85

31. Thunder Trail (1937)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Charles Bickford, Marsha Hunt, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 88

32. The Yellow Mountain (1954)

Approved | 78 min | Western

Frontier drama about two gold prospectors who hope to strike it rich in the mines of Nevada.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Lex Barker, Mala Powers, Howard Duff, William Demarest

Votes: 364

33. Fury Below (1936)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Russell Gleason, Maxine Doyle, LeRoy Mason, Sheila Terry

Votes: 58

34. The Great Divide (1929)

Passed | 72 min | Musical, Romance, Western

Steven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy, Creighton Hale

Votes: 203

35. L'aventurier (1934)

92 min | Drama

Étienne Ranson is the black sheep of his family. Having made his fortune in Tunisia, he returns to France and receives a cool reception from his uncle, Achille Guéroy, the owner of a glove ... See full summary »

Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Victor Francen, Blanche Montel, Henri Rollan, Gisèle Casadesus

Votes: 62

36. State Police (1938)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, William Lundigan, Constance Moore, Larry J. Blake

Votes: 35

37. Unseen Hands (1924)

60 min | Drama, Horror

A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: Wallace Beery, Joseph J. Dowling, Fontaine La Rue, Jack Rollens

38. Wolf Call (1939)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Drama

Natalie is shallow; Mike doesn't care. Mike and Natalie join a scavenger hunt and break into a pet shop to get something they require for the treasure-hunt prize.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Carroll, Movita, George Lynn, Guy Usher

Votes: 61

39. A Man's World (1942)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past, and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant chromite plant ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: William Wright, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Wynne Gibson

Votes: 44

40. A Man's Fight (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her. Although Ethel, ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Dorothy Wallace, J. Barney Sherry, Wedgwood Nowell

Votes: 27

41. The Lost Special (1932)

Approved | 240 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.

Director: Henry MacRae | Stars: Frank Albertson, Ernie Nevers, Cecilia Parker, Francis Ford

Votes: 50

42. The Plunderer (1915)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Bill Matthews and his partner, owners of the "Croix D'or mine, are beset on all sides dues to the schemes of a trusted colleague who plots to take their mine away from them, and leaves no under-handed method un-attempted in the process.

Director: Edgar Lewis | Stars: William Farnum, Claire Whitney, Harry Spingler, Elizabeth Eyre

Votes: 28

43. The Spark Divine (1919)

50 min | Drama

Due to her parents' coldness and constant struggle for social recognition, Marcia Van Arsdale grows into womanhood despising love. When mine owner Robert Jardine comes to New York, he ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Alice Joyce, William P. Carleton, Eulalie Jensen, Frank Norcross

44. True Gold (1923)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Action, Western

Jack Daugherty is mistaken for the man who stole gold from a mine but is actually the mine owner. Laura La Plante is the sheriff's daughter who, in her father's absence, falls in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Laura La Plante

45. A Wall Street Tragedy (1916)

Drama

The most powerful enemies of Norton, a mine owner, are Reid and Richard Ranson, brokers. He catches them short during a flurry in copper and forces them to the wall. Reid threatens to kill ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Nat C. Goodwin, Richard Neill, Mabel Wright, Mary Norton

46. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Day All Marriages Were Cancelled (1966)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

In 1850's Arizona, Charles Poston fills many positions including the ability to perform weddings. After his arrival, Father McCabe declares all marriages invalid. A trial is conducted to settle things.

Director: Hal Cooper | Stars: Robert Taylor, Oscar Beregi Jr., Willard Sage, Peter Masterson

Votes: 35

47. The Deputy (1959–1961)
Episode: Brother in Arms (1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Billy Jason, a young man taught to shoot fast and accurately by Clay McCord's father, returns to Silver City and promptly guns down a man over a card game. Although Billy claims to have ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Read Morgan, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 25

48. Tombstone Territory (1957–1960)
Episode: The Man From Yuma (1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

An ex-convict recently released from Yuma prison convinces a wheelwright shop owner to give him a chance when the man's assistant was found murdered under mysterious circumstances. He soon ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, Lee Van Cleef, John Milford

Votes: 40

49. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: What's Mine Is Mine

30 min | Drama

When a mine owner is murdered, Blake suspects that either his partner, his partner's wife or both are implicated in the killing.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Rod Cameron, Edward Binns, Jean Byron, Alexander Campbell

50. The Sheriff of Cochise (1956–1959)
Episode: Haywire Kelly's Blues

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

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Director: Harve Foster | Stars: John Bromfield, Stan Jones, Wallace Ford, Anthony Caruso