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1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
R | 160 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 192,952 | Gross: $3.90M
2. American Outlaws (2001)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Western
5 Southern friends return home when the war ends 1865. But Yankee soldiers and Pinkerton are busy helping a railroad baron grab land from farmers along the planned railroad west. The 5 friends fight back.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht
Votes: 17,540 | Gross: $13.26M
3. Alias Jesse James (1959)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Western
Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 1,601
4. The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Western
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 2,393 | Gross: $0.14M
5. Frank & Jesse (1994)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Western starring Rob Lowe and Bill Paxton, based on the lives of Frank and Jesse James. After the Civil War Frank and Jesse return to their family's farm. When their younger brother is murdered they embark on a mission for revenge.
Director: Robert Boris | Stars: Rob Lowe, Bill Paxton, Randy Travis, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Votes: 1,623
6. Jesse James (1939)
GP | 106 min | Western
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Directors: Henry King, Irving Cummings | Stars: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott
Votes: 4,951
7. A Time for Dying (1969)
M | 72 min | Drama, Western
In Silver City, naive farm boy Cass and newcomer saloon girl Nellie are married by Judge Roy Bean in a shotgun wedding but their honeymoon is marred by outlaws.
Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Robert Random, Beatrice Kay
Votes: 711
8. Best of the Badmen (1951)
Approved | 84 min | Western
The outlaws of the Clanton and Younger gangs are the heroes of this fictionalized biography.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston
Votes: 701
9. Hell on the Border (2019)
R | 106 min | Adventure, Biography, Western
Arkansas, 1875, After shooting 5 men to save a judge and then going into Indian Territory after a lethal outlaw, Bass Reeves becomes the first black deputy marshal west of Mississippi.
Director: Wes Miller | Stars: David Gyasi, Ron Perlman, Frank Grillo, Manu Intiraymi
Votes: 1,963
10. The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Biopic loosely based on the last 18 years of Jesse James' life and focused on the relationship between brothers Jesse and Frank James.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 1,700
11. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Western
The various fortunes and misfortunes of the outlaws and bank robbers Frank and Jesse James.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Marcia Cross, Gail Youngs
Votes: 487
12. Kansas Raiders (1950)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, Scott Brady
Votes: 1,358
13. The Legend of Jesse James (1965–1966)
30 min | Western
In a surprising twist, Jesse and Frank James come across as good guys as they go about their outlaw ways. Jesse is a devilish scoundrel with an eye for the ladies while Frank concerns himself with more practical matters.
Stars: Christopher Jones, Allen Case, David Richards, Robert J. Wilke
Votes: 107
14. 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: 2,505
15. Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Western
Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're prepared to hang any troublemaker, Yankee or Confederate, who stirs the townsfolk up.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter, Joan Leslie
Votes: 454
16. Belle Starr (1980 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Belle Star is a bandit with an itch to ride with the outlaw legends, the James gang, the Youngers and the Dalton boys.
Director: John A. Alonzo | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Cliff Potts, Michael Cavanaugh, Gary Combs
Votes: 147
17. 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
18. The Great Missouri Raid (1951)
Approved | 84 min | Western
In this Western, the James and Younger boys ride the outlaw trail again all because of a mean Union Army Major.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wendell Corey, Macdonald Carey, Ellen Drew, Ward Bond
Votes: 309
19. Hell's Crossroads (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western
An imprisoned gunfighter is offered parole on one condition--that he track down and bring in Jesse James.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Stephen McNally, Peggie Castle, Robert Vaughn, Barton MacLane
Votes: 173
20. The James Brothers of Missouri (1949)
Approved | 167 min | Western
The James Brothers go undercover to help a former member of their gang, who is now running a respectable freight business but is is being attacked by a rival who is trying to drive him out ... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Keith Richards, Robert Bice, Noel Neill, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 97
21. Young Jesse James (1960)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure, War
In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops and their mother's arm is amputated after their home is bombed by Union people, so they go riding with ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix
Votes: 165
22. American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James (2010 Video)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Western
Wounded in a gunfight, outlaw Jesse James (George Stults) and brother Frank (Tim Abell) try to stay one step ahead of a marshal (Peter Fonda).
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Peter Fonda, Tim Abell, Jeffrey Combs, George Stults
Votes: 465
23. 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
24. Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1948)
Approved | 180 min | Drama, Western
Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who... See full summary »
Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Clayton Moore, Steve Darrell, Noel Neill, George J. Lewis
Votes: 152
25.
Hondo (1967)
Episode:
Hondo and the Judas
(1967)
60 min | Western
A rebel Colonel, thought to be dead, surprises his comrades by bringing them back together for a final crime. Hondo rejoins the group, unaware of the Colonel's plan to get revenge on whoever ambushed him.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke
Votes: 32
26.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Tempus Fugitive
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lois and Clark team up with H. G. Wells and go back in time to the day of Clark's arrival on Earth in an attempt to stop a citizen of a future utopia from killing the infant Superman.
Director: James R. Bagdonas | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 386
27.
My Favorite Martian (1963–1966)
Episode:
The Time Machine Is Waking Up That Old Gang of Mine
(1965)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
The CCTBS time travel machine is stuck on 1870 Missouri. A short circuit in it transports Frank and Jesse James into Tim's apartment. The James brothers tie up the guys and make Lorelei drive them to Missouri so they can hold up a train.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Mort Mills
Votes: 35