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1. Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)

Passed | 82 min | Western

In 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer

Votes: 197

2. Montana Belle (1952)

Passed | 82 min | Western

In Oklahoma, outlaw Belle Starr joins the Dalton gang but she causes a romantic rivalry and a rift between the gang members, especially on the eve of the planned robbery of a bank where a posse is secretly waiting in ambush.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Jane Russell, George Brent, Scott Brady, Forrest Tucker

Votes: 526

3. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Set in 431 BC during the Pelopenesian War, play as either a male or female mercenary as you embark on your own epic odyssey to become a legendary Spartan hero in a world where every choice matters.

Directors: Jonathan Dumont, Scott Phillips, Sophie Ann Rooney | Stars: Melissanthi Mahut, Michael Antonakos, Leonidas Castrounis, Maria Syrgiannis

Votes: 9,679

4. 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: 5,763

5. Assassin's Creed: Rogue (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, History

Bridging the gap between Assassin's Creed IV and III, as tragedy and failure force Shay Cormac to question his own Creed. The Assassin turns Templar and embarks on a quest of vengeance and personal revelation, during the Seven Years' War.

Director: Martin Capel | Stars: Steven Piovesan, Andreas Apergis, Lucinda Davis, Stéfanie Buxton

Votes: 5,113

6. Black Bart (1948)

Passed | 80 min | Western

California stage robber Black Bart meets European dancer Lola Montez.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn, Percy Kilbride

Votes: 471

7. The Johnstown Flood (1926)

Passed | 66 min | Drama

Follows Tom O'Day, who is loved by two women: Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. He has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, Janet Gaynor, Anders Randolf

Votes: 305

8. Hurry Sundown (1967)

Approved | 146 min | Drama

Drama of a ruthless Southern opportunist who tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll

Votes: 1,386 | Gross: $9.00M

9. Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Approved | 79 min | Western

A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully

Votes: 507

10. Sitting Bull (1954)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Western

A cavalry officer sympathetic to the wronged Sioux fixes a meeting between Chief Sitting Bull and President Grant but a dishonest Indian Agent and a hateful General Custer test the Sioux's patience, threatening to derail the peace-talks.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, John Litel

Votes: 895 | Gross: $1.50M

11. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Biography, Romance

Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.

Directors: Archie Mayo, John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier

Votes: 1,161

12. I Shot Jesse James (1949)

Passed | 81 min | Western

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland, Reed Hadley

Votes: 2,501

13. Heneral Luna (2015)

R | 118 min | Action, Biography, History

Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Philippine Revolutionary Army general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen.

Director: Jerrold Tarog | Stars: John Arcilla, Arron Villaflor, Mon Confiado, Bing Pimentel

Votes: 2,519 | Gross: $0.20M

14. Column South (1953)

Approved | 84 min | Western

Before the Civil War, Lt. Jed Sayre's efforts to conciliate the cavalry and the Navajo are undermined by his racist C.O. and Confederate sympathizers.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Ray Collins

Votes: 729

15. Geronimo (1939)

Passed | 89 min | Western

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry

Votes: 173

16. An Englishman's Castle (1978)

144 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a world in which Germany won World War II and has occupied the United Kingdom, Peter Ingram is a writer on a popular soap opera called "An Englishman's Castle" that is set in London ... See full summary »

Stars: Kenneth More, Anthony Bate, Isla Blair, Kathleen Byron

Votes: 92

17. The Texas Rangers (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 838

18. Apache Warrior (1957)

Passed | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Western

This is the story of the Apache Kid; how he aided in the capture of Geronimo and his band, and later became a hunted renegade himself.

Director: Elmo Williams | Stars: Keith Larsen, Jim Davis, Rodolfo Acosta, John Miljan

Votes: 126

19. Legend Heroes (2016–2018)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

People named after warriors of myth are handed Legend Changers and are told to bet their dream in the aptly named Dream Battle. Whoever should defeat the other one hundred warriors can have their wish fulfilled.

Stars: Jung Yi-Rang, Yih Yeon-Dong, Choi Baeyeong, Yun Chaeseong

Votes: 14

20. Beloved Enemy (1936)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 385

21. Pirates of Monterey (1947)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny, Phillip Reed

Votes: 145

22. Sutter's Gold (1936)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 139

23. Diamond Jim (1935)

Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero

Votes: 252

24. Boys' Ranch (1946)

Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama

Baseball player Dan Walker being benched doesn't bother him as it allows him to make the easy decision to be a full time Texas rancher - his goal to own his own ranch - and be at home with ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, James Craig, Skip Homeier, Dorothy Patrick

Votes: 180

25. The Return of Jesse James (1950)

Approved | 75 min | Western

Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.

Director: Arthur Hilton | Stars: John Ireland, Ann Dvorak, Henry Hull, Reed Hadley

Votes: 138

26. Gunfire (1950)

Passed | 59 min | Western

Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his family but a look-a-like out;aw causes suspicion to fall back on him.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Lowery, Wally Vernon, Pamela Blake

Votes: 58

27. I Killed Geronimo (1950)

Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western

In the Arizona territory,Army Captain Jeff Packard (James Ellison) is on the trail of Apache Chief Geronimo (Chief Thundercloud) and the white renegades who is selling rifles to the tribe. ... See full summary »

Director: John Hoffman | Stars: James Ellison, Virginia Herrick, Chief Thundercloud, Smith Ballew

Votes: 16

28. Is Everybody Happy? (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Ann Pennington, Lawrence Grant

29. Yotoden: Chronicle of the Warlord Period (1987– )

45 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

In the year 1580, a man named Lord Nobunaga Oda sends hoards of unholy armies across Japan, slaying all who stand in their way.

Stars: Keiko Toda, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuki Yao, Takeshi Watabe

Votes: 26

30. Where I Am King (2014)

91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A grandfather on the brink of bankruptcy brings his grandchildren back to the community that made and shaped him, only to find out the place is no longer the same.

Director: Carlos Siguion-Reyna | Stars: Robert Arevalo, Rez Cortez, Cris Villonco, Rafa Siguion-Reyna

Votes: 41

31. Thin Place

Action, Drama, Fantasy | Pre-production

After her albino child is brutally butchered in front of her, a grieving mother seeks vengeance against the plagued knights that wronged her. With her soul split between our world and the "... See full summary »

Director: Drew Casson

32. The Man Who Dared (1933)

Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933.

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Irén Biller

Votes: 35

33. Rotinn

Short, Drama, Sci-Fi | Post-production

Rune and Ulf battle mental disintegration in the space between this world and Valhöll

Director: Lloyd Willacy | Stars: David Mullenger, Ben Silver

34. La Sociedad Industrial (2019)

8 min | Short, Comedy

Short film explaining industrial society, based on a conflict between the Joker and Batman.

Director: Facundo Albo | Stars: Facundo Albo, Valentino Chiodi, Felipe Polo, Agustin Villan

Votes: 12