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1. 1941 (1979)
PG | 118 min | Action, Comedy, War
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen
Votes: 36,315 | Gross: $31.76M
2. Badlands (1973)
PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 78,508
3. The Wild Bunch (1969)
R | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 90,467 | Gross: $12.06M
4. Combat! (1962–1967)
60 min | Action, Drama, War
Combat!, a one-hour World War II drama series, followed a front line American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe
Stars: Vic Morrow, Rick Jason, Pierre Jalbert, Jack Hogan
Votes: 3,148
5. Blue Thunder (1983)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,379 | Gross: $42.31M
6. 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, Jacqueline Beer
Votes: 1,639
7. Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.
Stars: Poncie Ponce, Connie Stevens, Douglas Mossman, Robert Conrad
Votes: 688
8. Police Story (1973–1980)
120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the "Empire of Chaiba", a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia, he initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.
Stars: Scott Brady, Mel Scott, Don Meredith, Joe Santos
Votes: 1,183
9. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Stars: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni
Votes: 3,086
10. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Votes: 21,560 | Gross: $0.58M
11. Race with the Devil (1975)
PG | 88 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker
Votes: 7,353 | Gross: $12.64M
12. Dillinger (1973)
R | 107 min | Action, Biography, Crime
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 5,860 | Gross: $2.00M
13. Drum (1976)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama
A mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Directors: Steve Carver, Burt Kennedy | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,061
14. Return of the Seven (1966)
Unrated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Western
Two survivors of the original Magnificent Seven, Chris and Vin, recruit four new members to re-form the outfit and defend several Mexican villages from vicious bandits.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates
Votes: 4,834 | Gross: $6.32M
15. Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Not Rated | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A New Zealand man recently estranged from his family gets unwittingly caught up in a revolution.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Sam Neill, Nevan Rowe, Ian Mune, Warren Oates
Votes: 1,662
16. The Split (1968)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine, Julie Harris
Votes: 1,469
17. Tough Enough (1983)
PG | 106 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A C and W singer has a family to support so he boxes at a TOUGHMAN amateur boxing contest, hoping to win $5000 and maybe go on to the nationals and sing on national TV.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier
Votes: 939
18. Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The missions of a rescue squad of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Stars: Jim Davis, Lang Jeffries, Nancy Rennick, Mary K. Cleary
Votes: 129
19. Up Periscope (1959)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1942, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden from the underwater demolition team is sent to a Japanese island to photograph secret radio codes.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 2,256
20. Dixie Dynamite (1976)
PG | 88 min | Action, Drama
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Warren Oates, Christopher George, Jane Anne Johnstone, Kathy McHaley
Votes: 359
21. Hero's Island (1962)
Approved | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1718, on a small island off the Carolina coast, a recently freed family of indentured servants plans to settle and homestead there but they run into conflict with a group of fishermen also claiming ownership of the island.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: James Mason, Neville Brand, Kate Manx, Rip Torn
Votes: 322
22.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
Blackout
(1960)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Suzanne is kidnapped by escaping jewel thieves, Jeff and the police must find a way of catching up with them before it is too late for Suzanne.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Roger Smith, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rex Reason, Donald May
Votes: 50
23.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
Terror in a Small Town
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Kookie and Jeff pretend to accuse each other of treachery and shoot it out in the office at 77, but it's just a prank on J.R. That night, en route to a case in a remote California town, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, Jacqueline Beer, Robert Logan
Votes: 47
24.
Combat! (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Pillbox
(1964)
Action, Drama, War
While falling back under intense pressure from the attacking Germans, Lt. Hanley stops to help one of his men who is severely wounded. The Germans are advancing rapidly, so Hanley and his ... See full summary »
Director: Vic Morrow | Stars: Rick Jason, Vic Morrow, Jack Hogan, Conlan Carter
Votes: 121
25.
Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963)
Episode:
The Contenders
(1960)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Tom is dating the sister of up-and-coming boxer Joey Steck. He discovers a scheme to fix Joey's upcoming fight against a local favorite.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Robert Conrad, Anthony Eisley, Connie Stevens, Poncie Ponce
Votes: 14
26.
Police Story (1973–1980)
Episode:
Day of Terror... Night of Fear
(1978)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Officer Ron Tice engages hostage-taker Richey Neptune in protracted negotiations, a task complicated by the fact that one of the five hostages is the Deputy Chief's daughter-in-law.
Director: E. Arthur Kean | Stars: Chad Everett, Sandy Dennis, Bruce Davison, Tom Simcox
Votes: 35
27.
The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode:
Pressure
(1962)
52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With the end of Prohibition, gangsters have now focused on the drug trade. A New York-based syndicate known as the Big Six, long established in the illegal drug business, visits drug ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Robert Stack, Darryl Hickman, Harold J. Stone, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Votes: 57
28.
Rescue 8 (1958–1960)
Episode:
Subterranean City
(1958)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
While searching sewer tunnels looking for a lost child, Wes & Skip encounter 3 thugs who are using the sewer tunnels as a hideout only to find out that one of the thugs is Skips nephew Pete... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Walker | Stars: Jim Davis, Lang Jeffries, Nancy Rennick, Warren Oates
Votes: 6