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1. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 450,850 | Gross: $30.86M
2. Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Western
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff and his posse set out to rescue their town's doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Director: S. Craig Zahler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins
Votes: 117,910
3. Into the Wild (2007)
R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 657,984 | Gross: $18.35M
4. 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: 78,358
5. 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: 232,447 | Gross: $100.24M
6. Elkhorn (2024– )
TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, History, Western
Reeling from an unimaginable loss, 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt abandons New York politics and journeys to the lawless Dakota Badlands, where he establishes the sprawling Elkhorn Ranch and attempts to remake himself into a cattleman.
Stars: Mason Beals, Jeff DuJardin, Ashton Solecki, Elijah Mahar
Votes: 41
7. Seraphim Falls (2006)
R | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After the end of the American Civil War, a former Confederate colonel hunts down a former Yankee officer with whom he has a grudge.
Director: David Von Ancken | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston, Michael Wincott
Votes: 34,508 | Gross: $0.42M
8. Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a post-apocalyptic world, women warriors battle each other from junkyards to gravel pits as they determine the fate of the entire world.
Director: Robert Hayes | Stars: Persis Khambatta, Kathleen Kinmont, Peggy McIntaggart, James Emery
Votes: 1,098
9. Thunderheart (1992)
R | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene, Fred Ward
Votes: 17,127 | Gross: $22.66M
10. Army of One (2016)
R | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
After a personal visit by God himself, the eccentric construction worker Gary Faulkner takes the decision to embark on an adventure in the badlands of Pakistan to bring Al-Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden to justice.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Russell Brand, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Amar Chadha-Patel
Votes: 8,924
11. Gor (1987)
PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
American professor Tarl Cabot is transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help an oppressed country overthrow its evil king and his barbarian henchmen.
Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Rebecca Ferratti, Jack Palance, Paul L. Smith
Votes: 2,346
12. Early Man (2018)
PG | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Director: Nick Park | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall
Votes: 23,795 | Gross: $8.27M
13. One Week (I) (2008)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama
Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.
Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe
Votes: 12,044
14. Sweetwater (2013)
R | 95 min | Thriller, Western
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
Directors: Logan Miller, Noah Miller | Stars: Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs, Eduardo Noriega
Votes: 6,442
15. Uranium Boom (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Drama
A love triangle tears apart two partners prospecting for uranium in Colorado.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Patricia Medina, William Talman, Tina Carver
Votes: 152
16. Red Canyon (2008)
R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
In the isolated desert town of Caineville nothing and no one and nothing can be trusted, not even memories. Going home can be murder.
Director: Giovanni Rodriguez | Stars: Christine Lakin, Tim Draxl, Katie Maguire, Norman Reedus
Votes: 830
17. Son of the Morning Star (1991– )
PG-13 | 187 min | Biography, History, Western
The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.
Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford
Votes: 1,059
18. Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Western
A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey, John Schuck
Votes: 1,704 | Gross: $5.14M
19. Bonneville (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter.
Director: Christopher N. Rowley | Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, Robert Conder
Votes: 2,859 | Gross: $0.49M
20. Four Faces West (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Western
In New Mexico, a cowpoke forces a banker at gunpoint to give him a loan without collateral in exchange for an IOU, but the marshal and his posse chase after him.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Charles Bickford, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 991
21. Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
PG | 97 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
In one of many unpopular and unsupported policy decisions, the US government of the near future outlaws vehicle petrol in an effort to curb the overuse of limited natural resources - except... See full summary »
Director: David M. Robertson | Stars: Darren McGavin, Doug McClure, George Touliatos, Robert Wisden
Votes: 341
22. Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)
R | 90 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.
Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Sydney Penny, Courtney Gains, Andrew W. Walker
Votes: 516
23. T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
45 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A youth who finds a dinosaur egg accidentally breaks it. Soon after, she begins to have surreal visions of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Peter Horton, Liz Stauber, Kari Coleman, Charlene Sashuk
Votes: 793 | Gross: $53.35M
24. Murder in the Badlands (2022)
58 min | Documentary, Crime
Examines the unsolved murders of four women over four decades in Northern Ireland.
Stars: Jason Murphy, Susan McKay
Votes: 114
25. The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Directors: Nick Green, Ben Lawrie, Toby Macdonald | Stars: Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod, Joanna Morgan, Mark Boslough
Votes: 194
26. King of Africa (1968)
Unrated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."
Directors: Giovanni Scolaro, Sandy Howard | Stars: Ty Hardin, Pier Angeli, Rossano Brazzi, George Sanders
Votes: 76
27. Six of a Kind (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns
Votes: 733
28. Badlands 2005 (1988 TV Movie)
48 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In this unsold post-apocalyptic TV pilot, a U.S. marshal and his by-the-book cyborg partner are tasked to escort two mail order brides to a remote desert area where their husbands work, but a local bandit leader has other plans for them.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Sharon Stone, Caitlin O'Heaney
Votes: 63
29. Rose of Cimarron (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Western
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Jack Buetel, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Jim Davis
Votes: 167
30. Bruce Gentry (1949)
Approved | 246 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Famed aviator Bruce Gentry is working with scientist Andrew Benson, setting out to uncover the origin of a deadly secret weapon---an electronically controlled flying disc which can be ... See full summary »
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Tom Neal, Judy Clark, Ralph Hodges, Forrest Taylor
Votes: 66
31. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Pimentel, Nicholas Winand, Kyle Abraham, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
32. Monster of Frankenstein (1981 TV Movie)
98 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Japanese animated adaptation of Marvel's "The Monster of Frankenstein" comic book series.
Director: Yûgo Serikawa | Stars: Masao Komatsu, Banjô Ginga, Hôsei Komatsu, Mami Koyama
Votes: 231
33. Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House (2010 Video)
76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt ... See full summary »
Stars: Henry William Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Darrell Dorgan, Clay Jenkinson
Votes: 17
34. Dinosaurs Decoded (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary
National Geographic reviews Jack Horner's research into juvenile dinosaurs. His evidence suggests that juvenile dinosaurs looked sufficiently different from adults that they have sometimes ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Levitt | Stars: Jack Horner, Mark Goodwin, Hans Larsson, Thomas Carr
Votes: 47
35. West of Thunder (2012)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
South Dakota 1899. A mysterious stranger visits a small town on the outskirts of the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and brings with him a terrible resolve.
Directors: Jody Marriott Bar-Lev, Steve Russell | Stars: Dan Davies, Clifford Henry, Corbin Conroy, Steve Garcia
Votes: 42
36. The Crooked Trail (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Jim Blake rescues criminal Hare Talton and Good Samaritan Estaban Solano from dehydration and death and tries to rehabilitate Harve by taking him in as partner in his gold strike.
Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Lucile Browne, John Merton, Charles King
Votes: 112
37. Natural Wonders of the West (1938)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This Traveltalk entry looks at some natural wonders of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Devil's Tower. The last stop on the tour, an "unnatural wonder," is the ... See full summary »
Director: James H. Smith | Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, Gutzon Borglum
Votes: 109
38. Darkness at the Open Cut (2020)
19 min | Short, Thriller
At the onset of Covid, while a medical worker is treating victims, his wife is cheating on him. The husband plots to take revenge on his cheating wife and her lover--and that's when things go wrong.
Director: Sasha Santiago | Stars: Jared Harrison, Chris Mott, Brianna Pfeiffer-Munoz
39. Proud Flesh (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 37 min | Short, Western
It is 1886 in South Dakota, and Harrius, a 70-year old wounded wanderer, seeks redemption. Through her encounters with a parched landscape and beings both physical and metaphysical (... See full summary »
Directors: Chiara Giovando, Jenny Graf Sheppard | Star: Inge-Lise Sheppard
Votes: 7
40. Thirst (2008)
8 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Two soldiers stranded in a barren radioactive wasteland discover a much needed canteen of fresh water, but when their baser instincts take over it becomes a case of survival of the fittest.
Directors: Ken Mohabir, Tyler Williams | Stars: Simon Fon, Kevin Robinson, Tyler Williams
Votes: 10
41. Badlands (2016 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Will and Jim Pattiz explore and record the rugged Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Their journey takes them to prairie that surrounds the spectacular landscape that gives the area ... See full summary »
Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz
43. Dino Gangs (2011)
100 min | Documentary
Dinosaur expert Dr Phil Currie goes on a quest to prove that Tyrannosaurs were more intelligent and far more dangerous than we ever imagined, and they hunted in deadly, killer packs.
Director: Tim Walker | Stars: Paul Barrett, Roger Benson, Anthony D. Call, Philip Currie
Votes: 27
44. National Parks Exploration Series: The Black Hills and the Badlands - Gateway to the West (2011)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
Nestled in the heart of America's Great Plains are the distinct landscapes of a sacred land that beckons the visitor to enter the nation's mysterious and glorious west.
Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Merrith L.K. Baughman, Japheth B. Boyce, George Armstrong Custer, Marc Ferguson
Votes: 11
45. But Deliver Us from Evil (2015)
38 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A man. A woman. A car. What does love mean to each?
Director: Reto Sterchi | Stars: Courtney Buckzowski, Starina Johnson, Laura Kweller, Rick Messina
46. Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos (2001 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Crime
After 15 years in prison, Cal escapes and with the help of the AI from the first game becomes a space pirate. His goal is to find the corporate heir who murdered his space miner dad and framed him, but becomes key to saving the galaxy.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Toni Barry, Doug Cockle, Risa Hall, Richard Sinnott
Votes: 21
47.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Trouble with Taxes
(1965)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Jeb Slade talks his brother Billy into helping him rob Aaron Winters, who is wealthy from his borax findings. They fail and while Aaron escorts Billy to the authorities, he learns the type of character the young man has.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Royal Dano, Alan Reed Jr., Angela Clarke, Joseph Sirola
Votes: 34
48.
The Texan (1958–1960)
Episode:
Badlands
(1959)
13+ | 25 min | Western
Clay Thompson, a greedy bounty hunter, pursues a man falsely accused of bank robbery with the help of a dirty deputy sheriff.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally, Myron Healey, Jil Jarmyn
Votes: 27
49.
Man vs. Wild (2006–2020)
Episode:
South Dakota
(2008)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Reality-TV
Bear tackles not one but three nasty environments; the Black Hills, the Bad Lands and the Great Plains.
Star: Bear Grylls
Votes: 56
50.
The Lost Room (2006)
Episode:
The Eye and the Prime Object
(2006)
TV-G | 44 min | Action, Fantasy, Mystery
Joe struggles to find the Prime Object and get Anna back.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Dennis Christopher
Votes: 611