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1. Shane (1953)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Western
A weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 44,235 | Gross: $20.00M
2. Young Guns (1988)
R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Western
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Votes: 68,169 | Gross: $45.66M
3. Open Range (2003)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi
Votes: 78,234 | Gross: $58.33M
4. Australia (2008)
PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo
Votes: 129,828 | Gross: $49.55M
5. 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: 62
6. Duel in the Sun (1946)
Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 9,501 | Gross: $20.41M
7. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,461
8. Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara
Votes: 32,622
9. Brother Orchid (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,192
10. 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
11. The Hunting Party (1971)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland
Votes: 3,425
12. Tom Horn (1980)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An ex-army scout is hired by ranchers to kill cattle rustlers but he gets into trouble with the corrupt local officials when he's suspected of killing a boy.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush
Votes: 5,928 | Gross: $9.68M
13. Cowboy (1958)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Western
An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jack Lemmon, Anna Kashfi, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 3,480
14. Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Western
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal
Votes: 4,432
15. Red Dog: True Blue (2016)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Hanna Mangan Lawrence
Votes: 2,414
16. The Rare Breed (1966)
Approved | 97 min | Western
An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy hornless bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas, but have to overcome greedy criminals and the natural elements.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills
Votes: 3,972
17. The Sea of Grass (1947)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 2,443
18. Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Passed | 95 min | Western
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones, Earl Holliman
Votes: 8,816 | Gross: $2.50M
19. Dodge City (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Western
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 5,769
20. The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser
Votes: 4,577 | Gross: $0.16M
21. Jubal (1956)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French
Votes: 4,404
22. Montana (1950)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Western
An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, and is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Directors: Ray Enright, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 1,375
23. Rancho Deluxe (1975)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Clifton James
Votes: 2,154
24. The Left Handed Gun (1958)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Western
After his employer is murdered by rival cattlemen, a troubled and uneducated young cowboy vows revenge on the murderers.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner, Hurd Hatfield
Votes: 4,655
25. The Second Time Around (1961)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse
Votes: 874
26. Blood on the Moon (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 3,508
27. From Hell to Texas (1958)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Romance, Western
After ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 1,152
28. Hondo (1967)
60 min | Western
Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.
Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke
Votes: 273
29. Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western
In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson
Votes: 1,093
30. Wichita (1955)
Passed | 81 min | Western
In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford
Votes: 2,357
31. Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)
TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Martin Sensmeier, Dermot Mulroney, Tommy Flanagan, James Landry Hébert
Votes: 1,004
32. Geronimo (1962)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Biography, Drama
In 1880s Arizona, General Crook and his troops are trying to subdue the last tribe of Apache led by Geronimo.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Pat Conway, Armando Silvestre
Votes: 1,306
33. Zandy's Bride (1974)
PG | 97 min | Drama, Western
An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 1,275 | Gross: $0.14M
34. To the Last Man (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Western
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Jack La Rue, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 675
35. Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley
Votes: 1,645
36. Cattle Empire (1958)
Approved | 83 min | Western
Released from prison, a trail boss is solicited by rival cattle barons to drive their respective cattle herds to Fort Clemson.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates
Votes: 793
37. Lucy Gallant (1955)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
The success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 677
38. Branded (1950)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith
Votes: 1,024
39. The Outcasts (1968–1969)
60 min | Western
A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War. They are the Outcasts.
Stars: Don Murray, Otis Young, Don 'Red' Barry, Art Metrano
Votes: 182
40. Star in the Dust (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
A sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray
Votes: 663
41. Masterson of Kansas (1954)
Approved | 73 min | Western
In Kansas, fearing another Indian War, Sheriff Bat Masterson, Marshal Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday join forces to defuse tensions over grazing lands between Indians and greedy cattlemen.
Director: William Castle | Stars: George Montgomery, Nancy Gates, James Griffith, Jean Willes
Votes: 413
42. The Wild Country (1970)
G | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.
Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard, Clint Howard
Votes: 349
43. The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Western
In the late 1800s, 2 east coast sales ladies decide to stop selling corsets and head West to sell barbed wire to Texas cowboys but they face opposition from big ranchers who fear that steel wire would hurt cattle.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Barry Nelson, Carol Channing, David Brian
Votes: 812
44. Play Girl (1941)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
The fascinating Grace Herbert has many years' experience as a professional gold-digger. Her finances at a low ebb, she finds her mature beauty less effective than of yore, and takes on ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Kay Francis, James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 391
45. Face of a Fugitive (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western
A robber who is falsely accused of murdering a deputy sheriff tries to start a new life in a border town near Mexico, but his past catches up with him.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter
Votes: 925
46. We of the Never Never (1982)
G | 134 min | Biography, Drama
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.
Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Votes: 471
47. Cattle King (1963)
Passed | 88 min | Western
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, Robert Loggia, Joan Caulfield, Robert Middleton
Votes: 582
48. Showdown at Abilene (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Western
After the Civil War, Confederate Jim Trask returns to his native Abilene to find his sweetheart engaged to his old friend Dave Mosely who's leading the cattlemen in a feud against the farmers.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen
Votes: 372
49. West of the Divide (1934)
Approved | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gentry was the one who killed his father. He saves Virginia Winters' dad's ranch from Gentry and also rescues his long-lost brother Spud.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Virginia Brown Faire, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Lloyd Whitlock
Votes: 1,071
50. The Americano (1955)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American working on a ranch in the Amazon comes up against a gang of Brazilian bandits.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Glenn Ford, Frank Lovejoy, Cesar Romero, Ursula Thiess
Votes: 628