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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.

Votes: 731,211 | Gross: $326.11M

2. Asteroid City (2023)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright

Votes: 113,733

3. Don't Worry Darling (I) (2022)

R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

While her husband leaves home everyday to work in a top secret facility, a young 1950s housewife begins to question her life when she notices strange behavior from the other wives in the neighborhood.

Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde

Votes: 147,220 | Gross: $45.31M

4. Tremors (1990)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror

Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross

Votes: 150,645 | Gross: $16.67M

5. The Royal Hotel (2023)

R | 91 min | Thriller

Backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that rapidly leaps out of their control.

Director: Kitty Green | Stars: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum, Dylan River

Votes: 9,352

6. Breakdown (I) (1997)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey

Votes: 61,794 | Gross: $50.13M

7. The Bad Batch (2016)

R | 118 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

In a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Keanu Reeves

Votes: 35,531 | Gross: $0.18M

8. The X Files (1998)

PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis

Votes: 110,204 | Gross: $83.90M

9. Odd Thomas (2013)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Ashley Sommers, Leonor Varela, Matthew Page

Votes: 57,467

10. 3 Women (1977)

PG | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier

Votes: 17,300

11. The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future.

Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Bobby Di Cicco

Votes: 16,759 | Gross: $8.10M

12. Limbo (II) (2023)

108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.

Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope

Votes: 1,595

13. Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001 Video)

PG | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

The now famous Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada for the first time in years, but the deadliest Graboid evolution yet forces him to save the town he swore to protect.

Director: Brent Maddock | Stars: Michael Gross, Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang, Charlotte Stewart

Votes: 19,244

14. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004 Video)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer's ancestor, Hiram.

Director: S.S. Wilson | Stars: Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago, Brent Roam

Votes: 14,105

15. Briarpatch (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A senator's aide unravels a complex web of lies, crimes and conspiracies when she returns to her corrupt hometown -- San Bonifacio, Texas, near the Mexican border--to investigate the death of her sister, a local cop killed by a car bomb.

Stars: Rosario Dawson, Jay R. Ferguson, Edi Gathegi, Brian Geraghty

Votes: 2,691

16. Timbuktu (2014)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, War

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed

Votes: 18,288 | Gross: $1.08M

17. Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019)

TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

James, a young grifter, attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he suspects. A cast of Coen brothers-type characters complicate their plans to outplay each other.

Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jimmi Simpson, Luis Guzmán, Damon Herriman

Votes: 3,241

18. Bounty Killer (2013)

R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Bounty killers compete for body count, fame and a fat stack of cash. They're ending the plague of corporate greed and providing the survivors of the apocalypse with retribution. This is the age of the BOUNTY KILLER.

Director: Henry Saine | Stars: Matthew Marsden, Kristanna Loken, Christian Pitre, Barak Hardley

Votes: 7,518

19. Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996)

PG-13 | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

On another planet, in the futuristic wild west town called Oblivion, the pacifist sheriff Stone, dandy alien bounty hunter Sweeney, and the lizard-like alien Jaggar are all after Lash, the sexy villainies from the previous movie.

Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Richard Joseph Paul, Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, Meg Foster

Votes: 709

20. Push, Nevada (2002)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Federal agent travels to a small town in search of a missing $1 million (while the audience gets a chance to find - and win - the money first).

Stars: Derek Cecil, Scarlett Chorvat, Melora Walters, Josh Todd

Votes: 249

21. Beyond the Wasteland (2022)

98 min | Documentary

Shot in Australia, USA, Italy, France, Germany, and Japan, Beyond the Wasteland follows the fans from around the world who go to extraordinary lengths in the name of Mad Max. Transporting ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Beyrouthy | Stars: Bertrand Cadart, Jim 'The TANK' Dorsey, Yoshiaki Murata, Melvin Zed

Votes: 104

22. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime.

Stars: John Bromfield, James Griffith, Robert Brubaker, Buck Young

Votes: 108

23. The Overlanders (1946)

Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a... See full summary »

Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, Jean Blue

Votes: 519

24. Hangfire (1991)

R | 91 min | Action, Thriller

A town has been taken hostage. Who will win the battle? Only the mighty will survive.

Director: Peter Maris | Stars: Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, Ken Foree, Lee de Broux

Votes: 394

25. Road Ends (1997)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Esteban is on the run. The FBI wants him back as star/only witness against a drug lord, who wants him dead and sends killers on his trail. It comes to a showdown in a small southern town.

Director: Rick King | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Peter Coyote, Chris Sarandon, Joanna Gleason

Votes: 622

26. South of Reno (1988)

R | 97 min | Drama

In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his drifting life.

Director: Mark Rezyka | Stars: Jeff Osterhage, Lisa Blount, Joe Estevez, Lewis Van Bergen

Votes: 230

27. Anna (VII) (2015)

24 min | Short, Drama

On a hot summer day, Anna embarks on a little journey in the deserted desert town she lives in. She tries to find a man to give her a comforting touch, even for a brief moment .

Director: Or Sinai | Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Miki Leon, Alon Dahan, Daniel Brosoveni

Votes: 41

28. Bye-Bye Souirty (1998)

92 min | Drama

The film tells the story of three people related to each other by their common itineraries: that of Rabii with his dreams; Kacem who is sick and trying to forget his dark past and Laarbi, ... See full summary »

Director: Daoud Aoulad-Syad | Stars: Hassan Essakali, Mohamed Bastaoui, Abdellah Didane, Mohammed Miftah

Votes: 33

29. It Came from the Desert (1992 Video Game)

Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Young rebellious Buzz and his old ant-expert professor Doc have seven days to try to find a way to stop the invasion of hyper-intelligent mind-controlling mutated ants led by monstrous AntMind on their small desert town and save the world.

Director: David Riordan | Stars: Randy Polk, Hugh Dane, Harry Fraiser, Mark Korman

Votes: 91

30. One More Time (2013)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama

An 80-year-old actress returns to the small Chilean town of her youth to fulfill her father's dream of creating a TV channel in a place which has never known television.

Directors: Pablo Benedetti, David Sordella | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Magaly Solier

Votes: 88

31. Patch (2020)

21 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Joel, living in a revisionist historical telling of the 1990s - and after the purging of all robots with Artificial Intelligence - builds himself a friend in his trailer park closet, ... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Parslow | Stars: Adam Zastrow, Tate Birchmore, Giavani Cairo, Taylor LeBaugh

32. Fighting Love (1927)

70 min | Drama, Romance

To escape an arranged marriage, a young Italian girl marries an older man, a military officer who is also a family friend, and when he is assigned to North Africa, she accompanies him. His ... See full summary »

Director: Nils Olaf Chrisander | Stars: Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi, Henry B. Walthall, Louis Natheaux

33. Reckless Moments: Once in a Blue Moon (1990 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary, Adventure

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Director: Rory McGuinness | Star: Barry Plews

34. Dust City (1997)

5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A robot stranger walks into a saloon in a rough and desolate Wild West desert town and orders a drink. A menacing robot gunslinger then enters the saloon and challenges the stranger to a ... See full summary »

Directors: Sébastien Drouin, Olivier Dumont, Christophe Mutin

35. Island to Outback (2021)

22 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

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Director: David Foreman | Stars: Ria Byass, Quentin Chester, Prue Coulls, Wendy Haylock

36. Until the End of the World: Up-Down Under Roma (1993 Video)

Not Rated | 7 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

In this interview from 1993, 'Until the End of the World' director Wim Wenders recounts his experiences visiting and working in Australia.

Star: Wim Wenders

37. Reah: Face the Unknown (1999 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

A stargate is discovered on a barren uninhabited planet called Rhea. A journalist gets the chance to go through it first. The portal takes him to a friendly medieval desert town where everyone seem to know him somehow.

Stars: Tomasz Bandelak, Jerzy Czosnyka, Tadeusz Czwakiel, Korneliusz Koziej

38. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)
Episode: Zuko Alone (2006)

TV-Y7 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

As Zuko tries to make it by in exile without his uncle, he remembers how his father became Firelord and what happened to his mother.

Director: Lauren MacMullan | Stars: Dante Basco, Grey Griffin, Mako, Gary Anthony Sturgis

Votes: 7,524

39. The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Episode: The Night of the Death Masks (1968)

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

Jim and Arte unknowingly become a part of a bizarre revenge plot involving mistaken identities.

Director: Mike Moder | Stars: Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Milton Selzer, Patty McCormack

Votes: 182

40. TaleSpin (1990–1991)
Episode: Citizen Khan (1990)

TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Caught in a speed trap over a small isolated mining town, the Sea Duck is confiscated and Baloo, Kit and Wildcat are put to work mining the rare and highly explosive mineral Yurgonium.

Director: Jamie Mitchell | Stars: David Doyle, Ron Feinberg, Pat Fraley, Ed Gilbert

Votes: 71

41. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
Episode: Ghost Town (1959)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Morgan and Ferguson track a pair of murderous escaped convicts to a desert ghost town where they're holding the wife of a cellmate as a hostage.

Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: John Bromfield, James Griffith, Dennis Patrick, Don Gordon

Votes: 9

42. Quack Pack (1996–1997)
Episode: I.O.U. a U.F.O (1996)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Donald and the kids are with Daisy, who's doing a story on a prospector who claims to have seen a UFO. Louie discovers the truth and ends up kidnapped.

Director: Toby Shelton | Stars: Pamela Adlon, Tony Anselmo, Michael Bell, Elizabeth Daily

Votes: 65

43. Australian Icon Towns (2004–2005)
Episode: Coober Pedy, Launceston, Ballarat, Tenterfield, Tanunda (2005)

55 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

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Director: Michael Neil-Smith | Stars: Yanni Athanasiadis, Chris Bitter, Brian Fechner, Scott McGregor