Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "ambush", "land-grab"

1. The Goonies (1985)

PG | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman

Votes: 298,871 | Gross: $61.50M

2. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 350,336

3. Pale Rider (1985)

R | 115 min | Drama, Western

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny

Votes: 64,784 | Gross: $41.41M

4. The Forever Purge (2021)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Horror

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.

Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Leven Rambin

Votes: 43,550 | Gross: $44.54M

5. Gunfighters (1947)

Passed | 87 min | Western

Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 918

6. Forsaken (I) (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Western

In 1872, an embittered gunslinger named John Henry Clayton attempts to make amends with his estranged father Reverend Samuel Clayton while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.

Director: Jon Cassar | Stars: Esther Purves-Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Lex Cassar

Votes: 13,824

7. American Outlaws (2001)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Western

5 Southern friends return home when the war ends 1865. But Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton are busy helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west. The 5 friends fight back.

Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht

Votes: 17,542 | Gross: $13.26M

8. The War Wagon (1967)

Unrated | 101 min | Drama, Western

The story of a man who was shot, robbed and imprisoned who returns to steal a large gold shipment from the man who wronged him. The gold is transported in an armored stage coach, the War Wagon.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr.

Votes: 10,817

9. The Legend of Frenchie King (1971)

R | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Western

Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

Directors: Christian-Jaque, Guy Casaril | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Michael J. Pollard, Micheline Presle

Votes: 1,331

10. The Burning Hills (1956)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz

Votes: 919

11. Boot Hill (1969)

GP | 87 min | Comedy, Western

Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.

Director: Giuseppe Colizzi | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 3,802 | Gross: $0.32M

12. The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Western

During the Oklahoma Land Rush, the lawlessness is exacerbated by the McCord gang's feud with the Kincaids, who are trying to bring law and justice to the region.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp

Votes: 2,655

13. Top Gun (1955)

Approved | 73 min | Western

A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Sterling Hayden, William Bishop, Karin Booth, James Millican

Votes: 727

14. Fighting Mad (1976)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Philip Carey

Votes: 668

15. Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller

Votes: 1,054

16. Coroner Creek (1948)

Passed | 90 min | Western

A man is bent on taking revenge on those he believes are responsible for his fiance's death.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers

Votes: 1,121

17. Three Violent People (1956)

Approved | 100 min | Western

When Confederate officer Colt Saunders returns to his Texas ranch after the war he finds his lands wanted by carpetbaggers and by corrupt provisional government commissioners Harrison and Cable.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon

Votes: 1,583

18. The Tall Stranger (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Western

Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Pate

Votes: 930

19. Three Texas Steers (1939)

Passed | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A circus owner, for sentimental reasons, won't sell her ranch. Her business partners secretly sabotage the circus to force a sale but her neighbors, The Three Mesquiteers, hope to thwart their plan.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis

Votes: 436

20. Adventures of Red Ryder (1940)

Approved | 205 min | Western

Chapter One MURDER ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL - Mesquite banker Calvin Drake (Harry Worth) plans to profit from the Santa Fe Railroad's acquisition of right-of-way by gaining control of the land... See full summary »

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Noah Beery, Tommy Cook, Maude Allen

Votes: 162

21. The Light of Western Stars (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »

Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey

Votes: 176

22. Man of the Forest (1933)

Approved | 62 min | Western

Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery

Votes: 260

23. Jungle Menace (1937)

Passed | 308 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (... See full summary »

Directors: Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Stars: Frank Buck, Sasha Siemel, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston

Votes: 46

24. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)

Approved | 263 min | Western

Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The ... See full summary »

Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Duncan Renaldo

Votes: 140

25. Man from Oklahoma (1945)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Western

Roy spends most of this movie rescuing Dale from terrible fates. The film includes a reenactment of land rush opening the Oklahoma Territory.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans

Votes: 90

26. Saddles and Sagebrush (1943)

Passed | 54 min | Western

Krag Sabine has aroused the wrath of all the ranchers by stealing their land with the aid of his henchmen, led by Ace Barco; when Lafe Martin objects, the outlaws shoot him down. Lucky ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Ann Savage, Bob Wills

Votes: 76

27. Mystery of the River Boat (1944)

Passed | 218 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Three Louisiana families, the Langtrys, Perrins and Duvals, as co-owners of swamp land in the Louisiana bayou country.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Robert Lowery, Eddie Quillan, Marion Martin, Marjorie Clements

Votes: 71

28. Plunderers of Painted Flats (1959)

Passed | 77 min | Western

To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned.

Director: Albert C. Gannaway | Stars: Corinne Calvet, John Carroll, Skip Homeier, George Macready

Votes: 92

29. Deputy Marshal (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Western

A Deputy Marshal tracks fugitive bank robbers to Wyoming, and then fights to help ranchers save their land from a railroad land scheme.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Jon Hall, Frances Langford, Dick Foran, Julie Bishop

Votes: 129

30. Thundering Trails (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

In 1871, the Rangers are disbanded due to lack of funds so Monroe County sets up it's own police force. All ranchers must pay for protection, but those who do not are quickly robbed and/or ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Nell O'Day

Votes: 77

31. The Raiders (1952)

Approved | 80 min | Western

A rancher who has staked a claim during the California gold rush goes after the gang of murderous claim-jumpers who have stolen his claim and murdered his wife.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Richard Conte, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Britton, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 170

32. The Adventures of Don Coyote (1947)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. ... See full summary »

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Frances Rafferty, Richard Martin, Val Carlo, Benny Bartlett

Votes: 32

33. Rangers of Fortune (1940)

Approved | 80 min | Western

Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison

Votes: 64

34. 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

35. Man with the Steel Whip (1954)

Passed | 167 min | Western

Saloon owner Barnet wants the Indian reservation land on which he knows there is gold, and organizes a gang, aided by some renegade Indians, to raid and terrorize close-by settlers, hoping ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Dick Simmons, Barbara Bestar, Dale Van Sickel, Mauritz Hugo

Votes: 80

36. The Californian (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Action, History, Romance

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Marjorie Weaver, Katherine DeMille, Maurice Black

Votes: 61

37. Paroled - To Die (1938)

Approved | 55 min | Drama, Western

Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Bob Steele, Kathleen Eliot, Karl Hackett, Horace Murphy

Votes: 119

38. Songs and Saddles (1938)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A traveling musician tries to prevent a rancher from losing his property to a swindler.

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Gene Austin, Lynne Berkeley, Henry Roquemore, Walter Wills

Votes: 58

39. Land of the Outlaws (1944)

Approved | 56 min | Western

U. S. Marshals Nevada Jack McKenzie and Sandy Hopkins come to Teton at the request of Dan Broderick to try to find out why and by whom the ore from the mine is being hi-jacked. When ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Nan Holliday, Stephen Keyes

Votes: 29

40. Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western

Jim Endicott has organized the ranchers into building a spur rail line so they can ship their cattle and avoid the rustlers. Faro Jack gets banker Potter to lend them the money and then ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Frances Robinson, Stanley Brown, Norman Willis

Votes: 15

41. West of Wyoming (1950)

Approved | 57 min | Drama, Western

With a crew of killers masquerading as ranch hands, Simon Miller runs a large ranch near Mesatown, while his henchmen carry out his plan to steal all of gold-bearing property of his ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Gail Davis, Myron Healey, Dennis Moore

Votes: 32

42. Ready to Ride (1950)

Approved | 30 min | Short, Action, Drama

In this 30-minute remake of Universal's 1938 "Outlaw Express" and filled from front to back with footage edited from that film, Tex Williams (Tex Williams) is a United States Army officer ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Donna Martell

43. The Secret Menace (1931)

Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. The property is owned by... See full summary »

Director: Richard C. Kahn | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Virginia Brown Faire, Arthur Stone, Margaret Mann

Votes: 30

44. Bar-Z Bad Men (1937)

Passed | 57 min | Western

Jim Waters arrives at Ed Parks' ranch to find Parks' cattle herd mysteriously increased. Hamp Harvey has been losing cattle and he suspects Parks. But the culprit is Harvey's foreman Brent ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January, Tom London, Frank LaRue

Votes: 89

45. Hi-Jacking Rustlers (1926)

Passed | 50 min | Western

When Montana cowpuncher Larry Benson, riding his horse Starlight and accompanied by his dog Rex, tied up at the hitching post in front of McAvoy's hotel in Dam, Texas, he had little idea of... See full summary »

Director: Bennett Cohen | Stars: Jack Perrin, Starlight the Horse, Rex the Dog, Josephine Hill

Votes: 20

46. The Cyclone Kid (1942)

Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western

Big Jim Johnson is a cattleman who wants to run all the settler's off the land. He has a number of hired guns including Johnny Dawson. Doctor Bill Dawson comes to town and wants to see the ... See full summary »

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Lynn Merrick, John James, Alex Callam

Votes: 32

47. Paradise Valley (1934)

Passed | 51 min | Western

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Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Sam Pierce, Jean Chatburn, Wheeler Oakman, Arthur Loft

Votes: 25

48. The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956–1958)
Episode: Land Jumpers (1956)

Not Rated | 30 min | Adventure, Western

Jim Bowie is riding along the Mississippi when he is bushwhacked by Manion and Kneeland...two settlers who accuse him of being a land grabber and throwing them off their land. They tell him... See full summary »

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Scott Forbes, Narda Onyx, Willard Waterman, Minerva Urecal

Votes: 20