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1. Yellowstone (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Western

A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.

Stars: Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley

Votes: 221,727

2. Nope (2022)

R | 130 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott

Votes: 267,080 | Gross: $123.28M

3. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman

Votes: 331,358 | Gross: $53.61M

4. The Big Country (1958)

Passed | 166 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston

Votes: 21,149

5. Big Jake (1971)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western

In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.

Directors: George Sherman, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne

Votes: 14,433 | Gross: $16.35M

6. Westward the Women (1951)

Passed | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire

Votes: 3,810

7. The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Western

Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr.

Votes: 19,216 | Gross: $13.33M

8. Of Mice and Men (1939)

Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Drama

A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Charles Bickford

Votes: 6,863

9. The Man from Laramie (1955)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Western

Newcomer Will Lockhart defies the local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell

Votes: 12,019

10. Man Without a Star (1955)

Approved | 89 min | Western

Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell

Votes: 3,944

11. Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)

Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Horror

A doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.

Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne, Harvey Chalk

Votes: 440

12. Silver Wolf (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.

Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Michael Biehn, Roy Scheider, Shane Meier, Kimberley Warnat

Votes: 625

13. Love, Lost & Found (2021 TV Movie)

88 min | Comedy, Romance

Joey plans to propose to Claire at a picnic in the wilderness. Accidents separate them and Joey ends up with amorous ranger Natalie, while Claire ends up with rescue volunteer Colt, her ex.

Director: John Lyde | Stars: Trevor Donovan, Danielle C. Ryan, Melanie Stone, Jake Stormoen

Votes: 746

14. Heat Lightning (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 1,034

15. Urban Country (2018)

TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A troubled young girl must choose between a carefree and exciting life in the city and a hard-work, no-frills country lifestyle in order to learn who she really is and what she wants out of life.

Director: Teddy Smith | Stars: Brighton Sharbino, Lou Diamond Phillips, C. Thomas Howell, Jason London

Votes: 351

16. Gun Glory (1957)

Approved | 89 min | Western

A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland

Votes: 901

17. Man in the Saddle (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Western

A private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox

Votes: 1,588

18. Flicka 2 (2010 Video)

PG | 96 min | Family

A big-city teenage girl is forced to live on a ranch in Wyoming and bonds with a wild horse.

Director: Michael Damian | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Tammin Sursok, Clint Black, Reilly Dolman

Votes: 1,830

19. A Pistol for Ringo (1965)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Western

An 'angel-faced' gunfighter is tasked with infiltrating a ranch overrun by Mexican bandits and saving their hostages, including the fiancée of the local sheriff.

Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca, Nieves Navarro

Votes: 2,306

20. Border Incident (1949)

Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Mexican and American federal agents tackle a vicious gang exploiting illegal farm workers in southern California.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell

Votes: 2,739

21. Pegasus: Pony with a Broken Wing (2019)

G | 86 min | Family

When Sydney and a neighbor boy find a mysterious pony that has an injured wing, they secretly heal the creature while racing to save Sydney's family ranch from developers.

Director: Giorgio Serafini | Stars: Jonathan Silverman, Charisma Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Eliza Jarrett

Votes: 153

22. Long Days of Vengeance (1967)

123 min | Western

After three years of hard labor, Ted Barnett escapes from prison to seek revenge on the three men who framed him.

Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Gabriella Giorgelli, Conrado San Martín

Votes: 514

23. Ramrod (1947)

Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western

Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,852

24. Amanda & Jack Go Glamping (2017)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

With his marriage and career against the ropes, dejected author Jack Spencer (David Arquette) travels with his wife, Amanda (Amy Acker), to an isolated glamping retreat in search of a spark... See full summary »

Director: Brandon Dickerson | Stars: David Arquette, Amy Acker, Adan Canto, June Squibb

Votes: 826

25. My Best Friend (2016 TV Movie)

G | 95 min | Family

When a free-spirited city girl moves to the country, she finds she's able to communicate telepathically with a horse that gives her the advice she needs to succeed as a tween.

Director: Paul Della Pelle | Stars: Catherine Bach, Patrick Muldoon, Alexis Rosinsky, Madeline Vail

Votes: 158

26. Tall Man Riding (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Western

Larry Madden returns to Little River after several years, still vowing to avenge himself against the humiliating whipping he received at the hands of cattle baron Tucker Ordway.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, William Ching

Votes: 921

27. Chained (1934)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,125

28. True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Western

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens

Votes: 215

29. 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

30. Mail Order Bride (1964)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Western

Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Keir Dullea, Lois Nettleton, Warren Oates

Votes: 592

31. Ride a Wild Pony (1975)

G | 91 min | Adventure, Family

A young teenage boy in Australia finds himself at odds with a crippled teenage girl over the ownership of a beloved pony.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Michael Craig, John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith

Votes: 238

32. Girl with an Itch (1958)

Approved | 77 min | Drama

A lonely, widowed middle-aged ranch owner gives a ride to a sexy blonde hitchhiker, When she finds out about the ranch he owns she figures he'll be an easy mark, but his suspicious son may spoil her plans.

Director: Ronald V. Ashcroft | Stars: Kathy Marlowe, Robert Armstrong, Robert Clarke, Scott Douglas

Votes: 38

33. Wild Horse Mesa (1925)

Passed | 95 min | Western

Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 93

34. Day of the Bad Man (1958)

Not Rated | 81 min | Western

Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Weldon, John Ericson, Robert Middleton

Votes: 532

35. Reprisal! (1956)

Passed | 74 min | Western

Half-breed Frank Madden claims he's White, in order to own land, but violent racial clashes in town force him to abandon his neutrality and chose a side.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant, Michael Pate

Votes: 508

36. Murder in Aigues-Mortes (2015 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Assistant prosecutor Elisabeth Richard and police chief Paul Jansac re-team to solve the consecutive murders of a young lawyer and a realtor in Aigues-Mortes, France, who both turn out to be suspects in an unsolved rape two years prior.

Director: Claude-Michel Rome | Stars: Florence Pernel, Vincent Winterhalter, Samuel Labarthe, Ludovic Berthillot

Votes: 129

37. Calibre 44 (1960)

G | 95 min | Adventure, Western

Un tiroteo separa a dos hermanos gemelos que crecen sin saber el uno del otro. Años más tarde se encuentran frente a frente, pero ahora como rivales que se disputan la propiedad de unas tierras-y el amor de la misma mujer.

Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Eulalio González, Rosita Quintana, Pedro Armendáriz, Rodolfo Landa

Votes: 23

38. Harley's Hill (2011 Video)

85 min | Family

A racing horse chooses a new path.

Director: Don Most | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Kirstin Dorn, Rance Howard, Deborah Thompson

Votes: 106

39. When a Man's a Man (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Western

A man who has spent all his inheritance, finds meaning in life, and love, at ranch where his ingenuity is put to good use.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods

Votes: 105

40. Gunplay (1951)

Passed | 61 min | Western

A female ranch owner and her two ranch hands try to help a young boy find the man who is responsible for ordering his father's murder.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Harper Carter, Mauritz Hugo

Votes: 205

41. The Sky Pilot (1921)

Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Western

The sky pilot is a preacher who helps Gwen walk again after a near-fatal accident.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: John Bowers, Colleen Moore, David Butler, Harry Todd

Votes: 175

42. Song of Idaho (1948)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

When sponsor Nottingham cancels King Russell's radio program, The Hot Shots try to change his mind. They not only fail but Nottingham's son forces them to take him back to Russell's ranch. ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Kirby Grant, June Vincent, The Hoosier Hotshots, Tommy Ivo

43. Wild Brian Kent (1936)

Approved | 57 min | Western

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Mae Clarke, Helen Lowell, Stanley Andrews

Votes: 50

44. Rodeo Rhythm (1942)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Western

One of the rarest, which is okay as it seldom even appears on the want lists of dedicated P.R.C. collectors (especially those who have seen it), and one of the oddest of the "... See full summary »

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Fred Scott, Pat Dunn, Loie Bridge, Patricia Redpath

Votes: 15

45. Corralling a Schoolmarm (1940)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Action, Comedy

In "Corralling a School Marm", the correct title for those who like their film history neat, local rancher/school board president Tom Simpson becomes smitten with new schoolmarm Alice ... See full summary »

Director: Charles E. Roberts | Stars: Ray Whitley, Virginia Vale, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jane Keckley

46. Her Daring, Caring Ways (1917)

Passed | Short, Comedy, Western

Lucille (Lucille Hutton), is the owner of the ranch but Little Mert (Merta Sterling)is the pride and joy of the ranch. She is loved by Al (Al Forbes). Two no-gooders, Chili Ted and Con ... See full summary »

Director: Vin Moore | Stars: Merta Sterling, Al Forbes, Lucille Hutton, Mr. Mule

47. Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode: Murder in the Saddle (1981)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

It's roundup time at the Harts' ranch, but Jonathan and Jennifer are distracted by dying animals, a rumored chemical spill, and a murder.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, John Ireland

Votes: 118

48. Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996)
Episode: Prediction: Murder (1989)

TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lee Goddard successfully coaxes Jessica to join him at his ranch in Arizona but intrigue and murder follow them there when a mysterious psychic joins them.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Melody Anderson, David Birney, Michael Parks

Votes: 414

49. State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode: Inherit a Bullet (1959)

30 min | Drama

When a wealthy rancher dies in an automobile accident, his mother is shocked to meet a woman claiming to be his wife who demands her share of the estate.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Rod Cameron, Sara Haden, Anne Sargent, Carol Leigh

Votes: 8

50. Centennial (1978–1979)
Episode: The Crime (1979)

TV-PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Oliver Seccombe resigns, but decides to never leave Colorado. The Wendells are determined to stay in Centennial, but can't shake the suspicions of Sheriff Dumire. The killing of the Pettis ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Barbara Carrera, Richard Chamberlain

Votes: 119