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51. The Reivers (1969)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine
Votes: 3,307 | Gross: $18.70M
52. Shallow Grave (1987)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
When four young college girls stumble upon a murder, they find themselves targeted by a killer who will stop at nothing to silence them.
Director: Richard Styles | Stars: Tony March, Lisa Stahl, Tom Law, Carol Cadby
Votes: 929
53. 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: 928
54. Rage at Dawn (1955)
Approved | 87 min | Western
A special agent from Chicago is sent out west to bring in the notorious Reno brothers.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker, Mala Powers, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,427
55. Flamingo Road (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian
Votes: 3,668 | Gross: $2.26M
56. Carnage Park (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the ... See full summary »
Director: Mickey Keating | Stars: Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, James Landry Hébert, Michael Villar
Votes: 3,779
57. Decision at Sundown (1957)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French
Votes: 3,488
58. The Oscar (1966)
Approved | 119 min | Drama
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker
Votes: 1,467
59. Close Range (2015)
TV-MA | 80 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a fight with a dirty sheriff and the cartel he works for to protect his niece and sister.
Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Scott Adkins, Nick Chinlund, Caitlin Keats, Madison Lawlor
Votes: 5,656
60. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being framed for a murder, a monster slayer must find the assassin and clear his name.
Director: Adam Badowski | Stars: Doug Cockle, Alexander Morton, Antony Byrne, David Annen
Votes: 6,647
61. The Human Tornado (1976)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Dolemite flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung Fu prostitutes battle a local gangster.
Director: Cliff Roquemore | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch, Howard Jackson
Votes: 1,964
62. The California Kid (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A deranged desert town sheriff has a murderous habit of forcing speeders to their deaths, until a young man with a souped-up hotrod arrives to possibly end it.
Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips, Stuart Margolin
Votes: 1,196
63. Nightmare in Badham County (1976 TV Movie)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
During a road trip, two UCLA coeds end up in a Southern prison farm on trumped-up charges brought on by a small town sex-crazed corrupt sheriff.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan
Votes: 693
64. It Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A drifter with fast fists and a gunfighter-pimp with fast guns help a child claim his inheritance.
Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Francisco Rabal, Renato Cestiè
Votes: 1,692
65. Happy Town (2010)
353 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A deputy sheriff is confronted with the unsolved mystery of a half-dozen child kidnappings over the past decade in a small town in Minnesota.
Stars: Geoff Stults, Lauren German, Amy Acker, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 3,433
66. Curse of the Puppet Master (1998 Video)
R | 78 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
A scientist attempts to master the art of transferring people's souls into puppets.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: George Peck, Emily Harrison, Josh Green, Michael Guerin
Votes: 3,155
67. Playing for Keeps (1986)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy
Danny, Spikes and Silk have just recently graduated from high school in New York. Danny finds a title deed for a huge house in a small town. He has a dream to turn it into a Rock n' Roll ... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein | Stars: Daniel Jordano, Matthew Penn, Leon W. Grant, Mary B. Ward
Votes: 753 | Gross: $2.67M
68. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas
Votes: 2,411
69. Untamed Youth (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Follows two vagrant sisters working for crooked characters at a rock 'n' roll prison-farm.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Don Burnett
Votes: 1,361
70. Buddy Goes West (1981)
98 min | Comedy, Western
Two outlaws: "The doctor" (Bud Spencer) and the Indian Girolamo (Amidou) are helping villagers to fight a gang and a corrupt sheriff who has discovered gold under the village.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner, Piero Trombetta, Carlo Reali
Votes: 3,650
71. I Live for Your Death (1968)
R | 94 min | Western
Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.
Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Steve Reeves, Wayde Preston, Guido Lollobrigida, Mimmo Palmara
Votes: 422
72. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Texan Tom Buchanan is heading back home with enough money to start his own ranch, but when he stops in the crooked town of Agry, he's robbed and framed for murder.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Craig Stevens, Barry Kelley, Tol Avery
Votes: 3,241
73. The Shooter (I) (1997)
R | 91 min | Drama, Western
Cowboy Michael Atherton intervenes on behalf of a prostitute, Wendy, who is being terrorized by a gang of thugs. He guns down the attackers and shepherds her to safety.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Randy Travis, Valerie Wildman, Andrew Stevens
Votes: 739
74. Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Framed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott
Votes: 917
75. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Not Rated | 80 min | Western
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola
Votes: 2,423
76. Silhouette (1990 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
An architect witnesses a brutal murder in a small Texas town.
Director: Carl Schenkel | Stars: Faye Dunaway, David Rasche, John Terry, Carlos Gómez
Votes: 236
77. The Concrete Cowboys (1979 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Two ex-cowboys from Montana wind up on the run when they are set up by a corrupt sheriff. They arrive in Nashville, where they open up a detective agency and soon they are hired to foil a kidnapping involving a singer.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Jerry Reed, Tom Selleck, Morgan Fairchild, Claude Akins
Votes: 99
78. Radical Jack (2000 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Adventure
After quitting his job, a man decides to go after the one person responsible for ruining his life.
Director: James Allen Bradley | Stars: Billy Ray Cyrus, Dedee Pfeiffer, Noah Blake, George 'Buck' Flower
Votes: 579
79. Shame (1988)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A barrister visiting a town in Western Australian town battles police corruption and the silence of the locals to help a teenage girl seek justice against a gang of young rapists.
Director: Steve Jodrell | Stars: Deborra-Lee Furness, Tony Barry, Simone Buchanan, Gillian Jones
Votes: 736 | Gross: $0.30M
80. Moonrunners (1975)
PG | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters.
Director: Gy Waldron | Stars: James Mitchum, Kiel Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Chris Forbes
Votes: 392
81. 7 pistole per i MacGregor (1966)
107 min | Drama, Western
Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related ... See full summary »
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Robert Woods, Fernando Sancho, Agata Flori, Leo Anchóriz
Votes: 239
82. Teenage Zombies (1959)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte, J.L.D. Morrison
Votes: 1,265
83. One Foot in Hell (1960)
Approved | 90 min | Western
In this Western, Alan Ladd exacts revenge on a small town the best way he knows how -- by becoming sheriff.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dan O'Herlihy, Dolores Michaels
Votes: 662
84. Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Romance, Western
After the Civil War, ex-Confederate officer returns home where he gets embroiled in local feuds involving an unscrupulous strongman and his hired henchmen.
Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Pierre Cressoy, Giuseppe Addobbati
Votes: 1,250
85. Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
X | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Five lonesome cowboys get all hot & bothered at home en the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
Directors: Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey | Stars: Viva, Tom Hompertz, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson
Votes: 582 | Gross: $0.09M
86. Waterhole #3 (1967)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Western
After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buried and he plans to retrieve it but others are searching for it too.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins
Votes: 1,611
87. Take a Hard Ride (1975)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After selling his cattle in town, ranch owner Morgan unexpectedly dies, and his foreman Pike has to deliver the payroll to Sonora, despite the perilous journey during which he's followed by many shady characters who want the money.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak
Votes: 1,492
88. 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: 669
89. 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: 344
90. One More Train to Rob (1971)
GP | 108 min | Comedy, Western
After taking the fall for a train robbery, Harker Fleet is released from prison and exacts revenge on his former partners who cheated him out of his share.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon, France Nuyen
Votes: 625
91. High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Western
Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical Marshal who abuses his power.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Lee Majors, David Carradine, J.A. Preston, Michael Pataki
Votes: 350
92. Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his father and brother are murdered by a corrupt lawyer and sheriff duo, railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara plans his revenge, and is aided by former outlaw Whitey Kincade.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane
Votes: 1,456
93. The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Western
After his brother the sheriff is murdered, Bat Masterson is elected to the job and is determined to find the killer and make Dodge City safe.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Nancy Gates
Votes: 1,070
94. Swamp Shark (2011 TV Movie)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An animal smuggling deal goes wrong, resulting in a large shark escaping into the swampy backwoods river.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Kristy Swanson, D.B. Sweeney, Jason Rogel, Jeff Chase
Votes: 3,107
95. Hillside Cannibals (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
Director: Leigh Scott | Stars: Heather Conforto, Tom Nagel, Vaz Andreas, Frank Pacheco
Votes: 930
96. Scattered Dreams (1993 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama
A loving couple is trying to make a living in 1951 Florida when they are arrested for a crime they didn't commit.
Director: Neema Barnette | Stars: Tyne Daly, Gerald McRaney, Sonny Shroyer, Andrew Prine
Votes: 307
97. Stigma (1972)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
A knowledgeable doctor, (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus changing the town's young people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries cure it.
Director: David E. Durston | Stars: Philip Michael Thomas, Harlan Cary Poe, Josie Johnson, Peter Clune
Votes: 281
98. Framed (1975)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley
Votes: 741 | Gross: $2.12M
99. 3 Bad Men (1926)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi
Votes: 1,504
100. Moving Violation (1976)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young drifter (Stephen McHattie) and his newly acquired girlfriend (Kay Lenz) witness a corrupt local Sheriff kill his deputy, soon becoming the prime suspects they set off across country to evade capture.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz, Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman
Votes: 420