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1. Mission to Moscow (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, History, War

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, George Tobias

Votes: 1,052

2. The 33 (2015)

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

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.

Director: Patricia Riggen | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin

Votes: 39,832 | Gross: $12.19M

3. Raise the Titanic (1980)

PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Once they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic grave.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer

Votes: 5,479 | Gross: $14.82M

4. City in the Sea (1965)

Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart

Votes: 2,614

5. Threesome (2007)

100 min | Drama

A mining engineer who is having marital problems with his wife decides to hook her up with one of the workers at the camp.

Director: Ihman Esturco | Stars: Andre Soriano, Jamil Basa, Monica Midler, Criselda Volks

Votes: 12

6. The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In 1901, a group of IRA members decides to rob the Bank of England in order to finance their movement and to embarrass the British government.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O'Toole, Kieron Moore

Votes: 957

7. Silver City (2004)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, Thora Birch, Maria Bello, Billy Zane

Votes: 4,236 | Gross: $1.02M

8. Green Fire (1954)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama

In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas, John Ericson

Votes: 1,522

9. A Breath of Scandal (1960)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Princess Olympia (Sophia Loren), despite her life status cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin).

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, John Gavin, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 949

10. Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)

97 min | Comedy, Drama

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

Director: Eldar Shengelaia | Stars: Ramaz Giorgobiani, Vasil Kakhniashvili, Teimuraz Chirgadze, Ivane Sakvarelidze

Votes: 2,258

11. Face of a Fugitive (1959)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western

A robber who is falsely accused of murdering a deputy sheriff tries to start a new life in a border town near Mexico, but his past catches up with him.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter

Votes: 930

12. Inferno (1953)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A tough, hard-driving business tycoon suffers a broken leg and is left to die in the desert by his scheming wife and her greedy lover.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating

Votes: 1,805

13. 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: 1,690

14. Whispering Smith (1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Whispering Smith was a detective on the Denver, Colorado Police Department in the 1870s. This show took case histories from Smith's adventures. George Romack was Smith's partner and John Richards was the police chief.

Stars: Audie Murphy, Guy Mitchell, Sam Buffington, John Harmon

Votes: 194

15. Death Drums Along the River (1963)

83 min | Adventure

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla

Votes: 422

16. Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Mystery, Western

The heirs of the dying owner of a valuable radium mine are being murdered as a mining engineer tries to uncover the killer and clear his cousin's name.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Randolph Scott, Charles 'Chic' Sale, Mrs. Leslie Carter, George F. Marion

Votes: 437

17. Silver City (1951)

Passed | 90 min | Western

After a desperate plot to rob his company office, a mining engineer leaves town humiliated. He takes up work elsewhere, agreeing to help a threatened father and his daughter extract silver ore from their mine before the lease expires.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Arlen, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 365

18. The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Romance, War, Western

In 1915, an American adventurer joins the supporters of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 521

19. Sensation Hunters (1933)

73 min | Drama

Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna

Votes: 214

20. This Thing Called Love (1940)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy

A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 213

21. Beauty for Sale (1933)

87 min | Drama, Romance

A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of affairs.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Madge Evans, Alice Brady, Otto Kruger, Una Merkel

Votes: 451

22. The Invisible Wall (1947)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When a mob boss sends gambler Harry Lane to Vegas to deliver 20K to a contact, Harry gambles the money away and must somehow recover it before getting into trouble with his employer.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Don Castle, Virginia Christine, Richard Gaines, Arthur Space

Votes: 129

23. 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

24. Something New (1920)

Unrated | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A young woman visiting Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the ... See full summary »

Directors: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle | Stars: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle, L.M. Wells, Merrill McCormick

Votes: 362

25. Desert Gold (1936)

Passed | 58 min | Western

Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Monte Blue, Leif Erickson, Frank Mayo

Votes: 173

26. Woman of the North Country (1952)

Approved | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era. But the Powell mine deposits are diminishing. The Mesabi range ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Ruth Hussey, John Agar, Gale Storm

Votes: 65

27. Wolves of Kultur (1918)

330 min | Action, Adventure

Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the... See full summary »

Director: Joseph A. Golden | Stars: Leah Baird, Charles Hutchison, Sheldon Lewis, Betty Howe

Votes: 44

28. 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: 120

29. Outlaw Queen (1957)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Music, Romance

Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist, and with her Uncle Jim,... See full summary »

Director: Herbert S. Greene | Stars: Andrea King, Harry James, Robert Clarke, James Harakas

Votes: 27

30. North to the Klondike (1942)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

Two friends in the Klondike come to the aid of settlers who are being terrorized by an outlaw gang.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers, Andy Devine, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 69

31. Fangs of the Arctic (1953)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Western

Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find the killer of trapper Antonie Dubois, and also... See full summary »

Director: Rex Bailey | Stars: Kirby Grant, Chinook, Lorna Hanson, Warren Douglas

Votes: 36

32. Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

Ever since the poor Pepper family - widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children Polly, Ben, Joey, Davie and Phronsie - warmed the once cold heart of wealthy businessman J.H. King, they have ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Edith Fellows, Dorothy Anne Seese, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson

Votes: 165

33. Amateur Crook (1937)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Katzman | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, Monte Blue, Jack Mulhall

Votes: 73

34. Saddle Leather Law (1944)

Approved | 55 min | Western

A posse, hunting the assailant of Denton's Partner, captures Steve Carlisle (Charles Starrett), who identifies himself as a mineralogist sent to check the area for quartz for radio parts. ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin H. Kline | Stars: Charles Starrett, Dub Taylor, Vi Athens, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 17

35. The Dancing Girl of Izu (1933)

94 min | Drama, Romance

In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother and sister in a troupe of travelling entertainers, who perform at a geisha house in mining country.

Director: Heinosuke Gosho | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Ôhinata, Tokuji Kobayashi, Kinuko Wakamizu

Votes: 120

36. Broncho Billy's Brother (1913)

11 min | Short, Western

Broncho Billy's brother, Dick, is madly in love with Nellie Parsons. Jack Dupont, a mining engineer from the east sees pretty Miss Parsons and becomes infatuated with her. Not waiting for ... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Fred Church, Bess Sankey, True Boardman

37. His Supreme Moment (1925)

80 min | Drama

John Douglas, a mining engineer who has returned from South America in order to obtain financing for a gold mining venture, attends the theater with Sara Deeping and falls madly in love ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Kathleen Myers, Belle Bennett

38. Devil's Dice (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Romance, War

A romance, started during World War I in France, between an American soldier and a French girl, finds its climax a few years later in an American mining town.

Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Barbara Bedford, Robert Ellis, Josef Swickard, Tom B. Forman

Votes: 17

39. Too Tough to Kill (1935)

Approved | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Mining engineer John O'Hara (Victor Jory) is sent to Nevada to investigate why the construction of a tunnel is progressing too slowly. Using his fist to find many of the answers, he quickly... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Victor Jory, Sally O'Neil, Thurston Hall, Johnny Arthur

Votes: 37

40. Secret Love (1916)

60 min | Drama

In an English mining town during the 1870s, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jack Curtis, Helen Ware, Dixie Carr, Harry Carey

41. Vzryvniki (1970 TV Movie)

65 min | Drama

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Director: Yury Solovyov | Stars: German Kolushkin, Nikolay Yeryomenko, Islam Kaziyev, Boris Arakelov

Votes: 6

42. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1914)

Drama

A feud between the Tollivers and Falins has existed for many years. Jack Hale, a New York Mining Engineer, comes into the country and searches for coal lands. He hears of coal on the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank L. Dear | Stars: Dixie Compton, Mrs. Stuart Robson, Richard Allen, Frank L. Dear

43. A Man from Nowhere (1920)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Western

Clay Norton and Duke Fuller are partners in a mining venture and have several claims, none of which have proved particularly successfully but do have promise. They are both in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Frederick Moore, Pansy Porter, Francis Ford

Votes: 40

44. Transgression (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama

Elsie sets out for a holiday in Paris and develops an affair while her husband spends a year working in India.

Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Ricardo Cortez, Nance O'Neil

Votes: 377

45. The Black Indies (1964 TV Movie)

88 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

In 1870s Scotland mining engineer James Starr is asked by former colleague Simon Ford, who's living inside the abandoned Aberfoyle mine, to help solve mysterious occurrences taking place inside the mine.

Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Alain Mottet, Georges Poujouly, André Valmy, Jean-Pierre Moulin

Votes: 30

46. The Wonderful Adventure (1915)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance

Wilton Demarest, a wealthy New York contractor and business man, falls victim to the wiles of Mazora, a beautiful adventuress. Soon, he becomes addicted to the use of drugs, neglects his ... See full summary »

Director: Frederick A. Thomson | Stars: William Farnum, Dorothy Green, Mary Martin, John Davidson

47. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Lady with a Past (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Tiger Lil leaves her dance hall days behind her by altering her dress and demeanor. Frank Johnson starts looking for her to profess his love, not believing she could change that much.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Robert Taylor, Mariette Hartley, Don Keefer, Valerie De Camp

Votes: 42

48. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Great Diamond Mines (1968)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

A prospector and his partner try to con a banker.

Director: Denver Pyle | Stars: John Fiedler, Gavin MacLeod, George N. Neise, John Newton

Votes: 36

49. The Gene Autry Show (1950–1955)
Episode: Dynamite (1955)

30 min | Western

Gene and Pat stop a empty stagecoach racing along the road. They backtrack and find the wounded driver and a passenger who claims to be a detective tracking a suspect in a mining disaster.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Francis McDonald, Sally Fraser

Votes: 10

50. The Sheriff of Cochise (1956–1959)
Episode: Question of Honor (1956)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

The child of a mine foreman who unjustly accused an Apache of stealing diamond tipped drill bits is kidnapped for revenge by the Indian's friends.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: John Bromfield, Stan Jones, Rodolfo Acosta, Rebecca Welles