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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,226 films · Page 2.
Classical Western, Western film, action film, drama film
A gang of bandits led by Calvera periodically raids a poor Mexican village for food and supplies. After the latest raid, during which Calvera kills a villager, the village leaders decide to consult the only man they believe has the wisdom …
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Komödie, Treasure Hunting, Western film, comedy drama, comedy film, mystery film, prison film
The Yelnats family has been cursed with bad luck, which they blame on their ancestor Elya's failure to keep a promise to fortune teller Madame Zeroni over a century earlier in Latvia. One day, Stanley Yelnats IV is wrongfully convicted of …
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Historie, Western, Western film, adventure film, drama film
In the New Mexico Territory in 1892, settler Rosalee Quaid and her family are attacked by a Comanche war party, who kill her husband and three children. Rosalee escapes by hiding under a rock outcrop. At Fort Berringer, soon-to-retire U.S.
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Classical Western, Criminal Comedy Film, Parodie, Sitcom, Western film, comedy film, parody film, postmodernist film, satire
On the American frontier of 1874, a new railroad under construction will have to be rerouted through the town of Rock Ridge to avoid quicksand. Realizing this will make Rock Ridge worth millions, territorial attorney general Hedley Lamarr …
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Drama, Western film, drama film, psychological drama film
In 1925 Montana, wealthy ranch-owning brothers Phil and George Burbank meet widow and inn owner Rose Gordon during a cattle drive. The kindhearted George is quickly taken with Rose, but the coarse and volatile Phil dislikes her, believing …
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Animation, Computeranimation, Komödie, Western film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film
A theatrically-minded pet chameleon is left to fend for himself in the Mojave Desert after his vivarium accidentally falls out of his owners' car. The cause of the accident, armadillo hermit Roadkill, was crossing the road in search of a m…
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Spaghetti Western, Western film, action film
An unnamed stranger arrives at the little frontier town of San Miguel. Silvanito, the town's innkeeper, tells the Stranger about a feud between two smuggler families vying to gain control of the town: the Rojo brothers — Don Miguel, Esteba…
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Fantasy, Western film, action film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Eleven-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions of a mysterious warlock, the "Man in Black", who seeks to destroy a "Tower" and bring ruin to the "Universe" while a lone "Gunslinger" opposes him. Jake's visions are dismissed by his mothe…
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Action, Western, Western film, action film, crime film
In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue, accompanied by an army of Blackstone Agents, seizes control of the frontier town of Rose Creek and forces the residents to work as cheap labor for his mine, while polluting th…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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Romance Film, contemporary Western film, drama film, romance film
Professional bull rider Luke Collins meets Sophia Danko, an art student at Wake Forest University, after she attends a PBR event. On the way home from their first date, they spot a car crash in the woods and help rescue an elderly man from…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, Western, Western film, romance film
During the California Gold Rush, a beautiful young woman called Angel works as a prostitute in the mining town Pair-a-Dice. Despite being coveted by the local men, she survives through hatred and self-loathing. Farmer Michael Hosea, after …
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Drama, Western
The continuation of one story of the settlement of the American West. It follows the further adventures of characters first featured in Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1.
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Western, Western film
In 1906, widower Henry McCarty and his son Wyatt reside on a farm in the Oklahoma Territory, near that of Henry's brother-in-law, Al. After a lost horse appears on their farm with a bloodstained saddle, Henry locates its owner, a man named…
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Crime, Drama, Western, Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, epic film, thriller film
Osage Nation elders bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning their descendants' assimilation into White American society. Wandering through their Oklahoma reservation during the annual "flower moon" phenomenon of fields of blooms, several Osage fi…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust, Eli travels on foot across the wasteland of the continental land of the former U.S. nation in search of water. He arrives in a ramshackle town ruled by a warlord named Carnegie, who seeks to control …
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Historical drama, Western, Western film, epic film
In 1859, at the San Pedro Valley of Southeastern Territorial Arizona, two separate parties of surveyors mark stakes on opposite sides of the San Pedro River to outline the homestead lots of a forthcoming frontier town, Horizon. Soon after,…
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Drama, Western, Western film, drama film
Around 1848, Mexican War veteran Jeremiah Johnson takes up the life of a mountain man, supporting himself in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper. His first winter in mountain country is difficult, and he has a run-in with Paints-His-Shirt-Red…
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Retro Science Fiction, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In 1873 New Mexico Territory, a man awakens injured in the desert with a strange metal bracelet attached to his left wrist and no memory. He wanders into the town of Absolution, where preacher Meacham treats his wound. Sheriff John Taggart…
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Drama, Thriller, Western, thriller film
In 1961 Montana, retired sheriff George Blackledge lives on a ranch with his wife Margaret, their son James, James's wife Lorna and infant son Jimmy. One afternoon, Margaret sees James's horse return without him. George finds James's body …
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Historie, Late Western, Political Drama, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, Western film, drama film
In 1870, two young men, Jim Averill and Billy Irvine, graduate from Harvard College. The Reverend Doctor speaks to the graduates on the association of "the cultivated mind with the uncultivated" and the importance of education. Irvine, the…
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Western, Western film
In 1881, a gunslinger known as "The Lady" arrives in the Old West town of Redemption, which is ruled by a ruthless outlaw-turned-mayor named John Herod. Herod has announced a fast-draw single-elimination shooting tournament with a large ca…
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Action, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
At the Tarasco bar in Mexico, Buscemi, an American man, talks about witnessing a massacre in another bar, committed by El Mariachi, a Mexican with a guitar case full of guns. Tarasco's patrons are uninterested until Buscemi mentions drug l…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, Time Travel, Western, Western film, comedy film, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
On November 12, 1955, moments after witnessing Emmett "Doc" Brown disappear in his DeLorean, Marty McFly learns that Doc was sent 70 years in the past to 1885. Using information from Doc's 1885 letter, Marty and the 1955 Doc find and repai…
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