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1. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Votes: 496,058 | Gross: $659.68M
2. Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A spaceship arrives in 1873 Arizona to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. All that stands in their way: a posse of cowboys and natives.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Abigail Spencer
Votes: 232,772 | Gross: $100.24M
3. The Last Samurai (2003)
R | 154 min | Action, Drama
Nathan Algren, a US army veteran, is hired by the Japanese emperor to train his army in the modern warfare techniques. Nathan finds himself trapped in a struggle between two eras and two worlds.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, William Atherton
Votes: 472,071 | Gross: $111.11M
4. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 291,180 | Gross: $184.21M
5. Hostiles (2017)
R | 134 min | Drama, Western
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Scott Shepherd, Rosamund Pike, Ava Cooper, Stella Cooper
Votes: 95,896 | Gross: $29.82M
6. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,494
7. Idle Hands (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage slacker's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.
Director: Rodman Flender | Stars: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba
Votes: 46,820 | Gross: $4.00M
8. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
GP | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee
Votes: 35,035 | Gross: $47.74M
9. Hondo (1953)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Romance, War
Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate
Votes: 12,435
10. Cutthroat Island (1995)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 30,606 | Gross: $10.02M
11. Soldier Blue (1970)
R | 112 min | Drama, War, Western
After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson
Votes: 6,290 | Gross: $0.51M
12. Nightwatch (1994)
R | 107 min | Thriller
A law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.
Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen
Votes: 17,918
13. Ride with the Devil (I) (1999)
R | 138 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the American Civil War, two friends join the Bushwhackers, a militant group loyal to the Confederacy.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeremy W. Auman
Votes: 14,574 | Gross: $0.63M
14. Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History, Western
The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi
Votes: 13,516 | Gross: $18.64M
15. 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: 1,934
16. Nurse Betty (2000)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 36,208 | Gross: $25.17M
17. Duel at Diablo (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver
Votes: 4,277
18. Child of God (2013)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A dispossessed, violent man's disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order.
Director: James Franco | Stars: Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Steve Hunter
Votes: 4,400 | Gross: $0.04M
19. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Approved | 30 min | Western
After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.
Stars: Nick Adams, Chuck Hamilton, Sid Troy, Ross Sturlin
Votes: 657
20. Navajo Joe (1966)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Western
A Native American warrior seeks revenge on the gang of sadistic scalphunters-turned-bank robbers who massacred his tribe.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Fernando Rey
Votes: 4,573
21. The Scalphunters (1968)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis
Votes: 4,401
22. Medusa Deluxe (2022)
R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.
Director: Thomas Hardiman | Stars: Luke Pasqualino, Lilit Lesser, Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle
Votes: 1,897
23. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,910
24. Comanche (1956)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Western
Common efforts of the U.S. government and the Comanche nation to negotiate a peace treaty are sabotaged by renegade Indians and by the short-sighted Indian Commissioner (Lowell Gilmore).
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon
Votes: 714
25. The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003 Video)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Jake Busey, Kari Wuhrer, C. Thomas Howell, Shaun Johnston
Votes: 3,760
26. Hondo (1967)
60 min | Western
Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.
Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke
Votes: 273
27. The Last Hunt (1956)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Western
In 1883 South Dakota, two buffalo hunters start a personal feud over a captured squaw and a stand-off with a Dakota raiding party over some stolen horses.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget
Votes: 1,812
28. Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1868 Kansas, a Lakota Sioux warrior stubbornly refuses to free the 2 white women he kidnapped, triggering a war between his tribe and General Custer's rescuing troops.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Janine Turner, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Bergin, William Shockley
Votes: 1,094
29. John Doe: Vigilante (2014)
R | 93 min | Crime, Thriller
An ordinary man fights violence the only way he knows how - by killing one criminal at a time. Hero or villain? Justice or vengeance? You decide.
Director: Kelly Dolen | Stars: Jamie Bamber, Lachy Hulme, Gary Abrahams, Sam Parsonson
Votes: 8,699
30. Scalps (1983)
R | 82 min | Horror
A group of archeological students venture on Indian land for a dig. Unfortunately, they release an evil spirit who possesses one of them and starts killing the others.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Jo-Ann Robinson, Richard Hench, Roger Maycock, Frank McDonald
Votes: 1,563
31. Terror Toons (2002 Video)
R | 75 min | Horror, Comedy
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, two sisters are about to experience the dark and sinister world of Terror Toons. Candy and Cindy's parents have traveled out of town for the weekend ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Beverly Lynne, Lizzy Borden, Brandon Ellison, Kaycee
Votes: 1,222
32. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
108 min | Comedy, Western
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 955
33. Tate (1960)
30 min | Western
The adventures of a one-armed gunfighter (he lost the use of an arm during the Civil War) in the Old West.
Stars: David McLean, Don Wilbanks, Robert Redford, Ted Markland
Votes: 136
34. Hotel Colonial (1987)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama
Marco Venieri receives word that his brother Luca, an ex-terrorist turned state's evidence, has killed himself in Columbia. Marco takes the journey to Columbia only to find a country permeated with poverty, corruption, racism and crime.
Director: Cinzia TH Torrini | Stars: John Savage, Rachel Ward, Massimo Troisi, Robert Duvall
Votes: 315
35. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,668
36. The Dragon Strikes Back (1973)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Western
A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Chen Lee, Klaus Kinski, Carla Romanelli, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 1,152
37. Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Western
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Ray Milland, Helena Carter, Hugh Marlowe, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 467
38. Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Drama, History
Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom.
Directors: Ray Bengston, George D. Escobar | Stars: Kelly Greyson, Natalie Racoosin, Clay Walker, Jenn Gotzon
Votes: 977 | Gross: $0.67M
39. The Paleface (1922)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Votes: 3,272
40. Jericho Mansions (2003)
R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
Director: Alberto Sciamma | Stars: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Jennifer Tilly, Maribel Verdú
Votes: 1,019
41. Black Jack (1968)
89 min | Western
Following the robbery of a bank in the Wild West a gang gathers around Jack Murphy, their leader. Things go awry when Skinner, Reb, Mathias and the brothers, Bill and Gordon, realize Jack ... See full summary »
Directors: Gianfranco Baldanello, Moez Majali | Stars: Robert Woods, Lucienne Bridou, Rik Battaglia, Larry Dolgin
Votes: 367
42. Walk Tall (1960)
Approved | 61 min | Western
In order to keep peace, an Army captain hunts a gang leader for raiding Indians.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Willard Parker, Joyce Meadows, Kent Taylor, Russ Bender
Votes: 86
43. Terror Toons 2 (2007 Video)
76 min | Comedy, Horror
A girl gets a DVD entitled Terror Toons for her birthday. Meanwhile, "cartoon" characters Hansel and Gretel wander into the house of a witch who poisons them, but instead of dying, they ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Emma Bing, Bart Burson, Jonathan Kowalsky, Randy Wayne
Votes: 290
44. The Stylist (2016)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Claire is a lonely hairstylist with an unnerving desire to escape her disappointing reality. When her final client of the evening arrives with the request to look perfect, Claire has plans of her own.
Director: Jill Gevargizian | Stars: Najarra Townsend, Jennifer Plas, Angela Dupuie, Pepper
Votes: 428
45. Fort Courageous (1965)
Approved | 72 min | Western
An ex-cavalry sergeant, being escorted to prison after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit, finds himself leading the remnants of a unit that has been under Indian attack at a fort.... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Fred Beir, Don 'Red' Barry, Hanna Landy, Harry Lauter
Votes: 182
46. American Eagle (1989)
R | 92 min | Action
Twenty years ago, Vietnam turned three American boys into men, but amidst the horror, Johnny Burke cracked. When his friends, Max and Rudy, stop him from torturing an innocent Cambodian ... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Smawley | Stars: Asher Brauner, Robert F. Lyons, Vernon Wells, Kai Baker
Votes: 123
47. The Falcon Out West (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Falcon and the police travel west to a ranch in Texas to try and solve the mystery of the murder by venom from a rattlesnake, in a New York City nightclub, of a Rich cattle baron.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay
Votes: 728
48. Last of the Redmen (1947)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western
A retelling of The Last of the Mohicans with just enough changes to qualify for a different title. Major Heyward and Hawk-Eye escort three children of an officer to safety during the French... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Jon Hall, Michael O'Shea, Evelyn Ankers, Julie Bishop
Votes: 188
49. Quinto: non ammazzare (1969)
100 min | Drama, Western
The Blackie gang pulls off the perfect bank heist. But who took the money?
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Giuseppe Cardillo, Sarah Ross, Alfonso Rojas, Diana Sorel
Votes: 66
50. The Murder of Hi Good (2012)
73 min | Western
Part documentary, part magical realist reenactment, The Murder of Hi Good details the assassination of Northern California's most infamous Indian hunter, "Hiram Good".
Director: Lee Lynch | Stars: David Nordstrom, Cory Zacharia, Al Bringas, Eric H. Heisner
Votes: 89