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1. Battleship (2012)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna
Votes: 257,792 | Gross: $65.42M
2. The Paperboy (2012)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Zac Efron
Votes: 39,776 | Gross: $0.69M
3. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 72,946
4. The Minute You Wake up Dead (2022)
R | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A stockbroker in a small southern town gets involved in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders.
Director: Michael Mailer | Stars: Cole Hauser, Jaimie Alexander, Darren Mann, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 2,893
5. 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
6. The Lawless Breed (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Biography, Western
After being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire
Votes: 1,429
7. Ramrod (1947)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western
Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,857
8. Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
Passed | 85 min | Western
After claiming his daughter's childhood-sweetheart killed the marshal, one man finds himself in conflict with his daughter, his fiancée and many of the townsfolk.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Margaret Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman
Votes: 950
9. Dawn Rider (2012)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
After his father is killed, John Mason is willing to turn the world inside out to find the man responsible. What he doesn't know is the killer might be in his own house.
Director: Terry Miles | Stars: Christian Slater, Jill Hennessy, Donald Sutherland, Ben Cotton
Votes: 2,231
10. A Few Dollars for Django (1966)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Sent to Montana to hunt down bank robbers, a bounty hunter takes the star off a replacement sheriff who didn't reach his destination and steps into a range war between farmers and cattlemen.
Directors: León Klimovsky, Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Gloria Osuna, Ennio Girolami, Joe Kamel
Votes: 523
11. Savage Gringo (1966)
82 min | Action, Drama, Western
A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Directors: Antonio Román, Mario Bava | Stars: Ken Clark, Yvonne Bastien, Piero Lulli, Howard Ross
Votes: 265
12. Payment in Blood (1967)
R | 98 min | Drama, Western
A gunman joins up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas to find a cache of missing Confederate gold.
Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Edd Byrnes, Ennio Girolami, Luisa Baratto, Federico Boido
Votes: 353
13. Final Mission (1984)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, War
Vince Deacon, a higly decorated Vietnam War veteran, serves as a SWAT team captain for LAPD. When his family gets attacked by thugs and he kills one of them in self defense he's being ... See full summary »
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Richard Young, Christine L. Tudor, Jason Ross, John Dresden
Votes: 222
14. Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance (1966)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Western
Two adventurers save the life of a man who has a tattooed treasure map on his back. The second needed map is on the back of a sheriff. The hunt begins.
Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Frank Wolff, Eduardo Fajardo, Armando Calvo
Votes: 263
15. A Taste of Death (1968)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Western
Scaife, the sadistic leader of a gang of cattle thieves, terrorizes the people of a Colorado mountain town. Bill Ransom, the retired sheriff, is the only one to stand up against Scaife and ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Merolle | Stars: Andrea Giordana, John Ireland, Raymond Pellegrin, Betsy Bell
Votes: 113
16. Skipalong Rosenbloom (1951)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Western
The town of Buttonhole Bend is in the clutches of the Butcher Baer (Max Baer) gang who have killed every sheriff and robbed every bank in the territory. The brains behind the gang is saloon... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Maxie Rosenbloom, Max Baer, Jackie Coogan, Fuzzy Knight
Votes: 46
17. The Farmhand (2019)
42 min | Short, Drama, Romance
"The Farmhand" is a period piece that takes place in 1927 after Grayson Livingston, hired by a bootlegging kingpin to murder Sheriff Henry Lloyd, is the center of a tragic mistake.
Directors: Michelle Elise Harding, Shari Harding | Stars: Russell Shealy, Carrie Anne Hunt, Spenser Gerard, Stephen Royal Phillips
Votes: 62
18.
Once Upon a Time (2011–2018)
Episode:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(2011)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Graham starts to remember details about his life before Storybrooke, while flashbacks show when the Evil Queen sent an assassin to kill Snow White.
Director: David Barrett | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas
Votes: 2,821
19.
Banshee (2013–2016)
Episode:
Pilot
(2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After completing his 15 year prison sentence, an ex-con tracks down his former partner, now known as Carrie Hopewell, in Banshee County Pennsylvania who it turns out is now married to the ... See full summary »
Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Antony Starr, Ivana Milicevic, Ulrich Thomsen, Frankie Faison
Votes: 3,641
20.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
#thinman
(2014)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As Dean and Sam investigate the murder of a teenage girl, they once again cross paths with the Ghostfacers.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, A.J. Buckley, Travis Wester
Votes: 3,591
21.
Justified (2010–2015)
Episode:
Shot All to Hell
(2014)
TV-MA | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Art stumbles on Theo Tonin's right-hand man while investigating Nicky Augustine's death, Boyd tries to tie up loose ends with Lee Paxton, the sheriff, and cousin Johnny, and Raylan tries to get the Crowes to leave Harlan.
Director: Adam Arkin | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Jere Burns, Joelle Carter
Votes: 1,435