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1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 850,366 | Gross: $142.50M
2. The Aviator (2004)
PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Votes: 384,468 | Gross: $102.61M
3. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 261,038 | Gross: $8.82M
4. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 143,268 | Gross: $30.50M
5. Down in the Valley (2005)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman.
Director: David Jacobson | Stars: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse, Rory Culkin
Votes: 18,968 | Gross: $0.57M
6. Valentino (1977)
R | 128 min | Biography, Drama
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane
Votes: 2,158
7. The Hero (I) (2017)
R | 96 min | Drama, Romance
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
Director: Brett Haley | Stars: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman
Votes: 10,470 | Gross: $4.08M
8. The Last Movie (1971)
R | 108 min | Drama
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind to witness the ways that filmmaking affects the locals.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Julie Adams, Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman
Votes: 2,654
9. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,629 | Gross: $4.59M
10. Eight Hundred Bullets (2002)
R | 124 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Julián Torralba is a former movie stuntman in Almeria, Spain. He and several of his colleagues, who once made a living in American Westerns shot in Spain, now are reduced to doing stunt ... See full summary »
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Sancho Gracia, Ángel de Andrés López, Carmen Maura, Eusebio Poncela
Votes: 4,746 | Gross: $0.00M
11. My One and Only (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 9,430 | Gross: $2.48M
12. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,964
13. Reel Injun (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western
The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell
Votes: 1,652
14. The Errand Boy (1961)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Family
A goofy paperhanger is hired to root out a financial inefficiency on a Hollywood studio lot, wreaking havoc as he goes.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Brian Donlevy, Howard McNear, Dick Wesson
Votes: 2,164
15. I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
PG | 92 min | Comedy
Pierre Durois, a teacher at a girls' boarding school, does journalism in his spare time. When a movie crew arrives in town, he writes a venomous note about an American movie star, the volcanic Jackie Logan.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Claude Piéplu, Jean Martin
Votes: 1,536
17. Day of the Gun (2013)
128 min | Western
An ambitious widow vows "There will be hell to pay" when a prominent Montana rancher puts up a barbed wire fence between their properties.
Director: Wayne Shipley | Stars: Eric Roberts, Raw Leiba, LaDon Hart Hall, Jim Osborn
Votes: 61
18. Clint Eastwood: Make My Day (2023)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, Western
Clint Eastwood's rise to fame reads like one of his dramatic movie scripts. 84 films about cowboys, crime, war, romance, and boxing would yield Best Picture and Directing Oscars. Eastwood's contributions to cinema remain forever limitless.
Director: Angelica Butcher
Votes: 20
19. The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw (2008 Video)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Explores the true story of the notorious Jesse James, how the myth developed during his lifetime, and how the legends have persisted over 100 years after his death at the hands of his former friend, Robert Ford.
Stars: Casey Affleck, Andrew Dominik, Ralph Ganis, Ron Hansen
Votes: 77
20. Behind the Screen (1916)
TV-G | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 3,033
21. A Word on Westerns (2014– )
5 min | Documentary
An interview show featuring producer Rob Word, who speaks with various actors, actresses, stuntmen, directors and others who worked on many western films and TV series over the years.
Stars: Rob Word, Robert Forster, Robert Fuller, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 27
22. Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
An inside look at the hectic production of Heaven's Gate (1980), the media circus that turned it into a synonym for movie flop and how it added to the tectonic change that occurred in Hollywood film studios after it infamously flopped.
Director: Michael Epstein | Stars: Steven Bach, Hal Ashby, Sandy Berke Jordan, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 530
23. Clint Eastwood on Westerns (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Actor/director Clint Eastwood tells his life story--from his childhood in Depression-era California to his astonishing rise to superstardom. Each major period of Eastwood's life is ... See full summary »
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Richard Harris
Votes: 64
24. TV's Western Heroes (1993 Video)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary
Director: Paul Harris | Stars: Will Hutchins, Lee Aaker, Don Adams, Nick Adams
Votes: 13
25. Merton of the Movies (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.
Director: Robert Alton | Stars: Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien, Gloria Grahame, Leon Ames
Votes: 503
26. It's a Grand Old Nag (1947)
8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A slick movie director tricks a hayseed horse into becoming a stunt double.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Stan Freberg, Dave Barry
Votes: 53
27. Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films, and the actor himself.
Directors: Gene Feldman, Suzette Winter | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Anthony Caruso, Edward Dmytryk
Votes: 80
28. The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)
42 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrates this film, talking about some of the... See full summary »
Director: Robert Crawford Jr. | Stars: George Roy Hill, William Goldman, Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Votes: 272
29. Guns on the Clackamas: A Documentary (1995)
Comedy
Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Keith Scales, Micheal Thomas Parks, Danny Bruno, William C. Tate
Votes: 50
30. Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
81 min | Documentary
A chronological look at films by, for, or about (or 'by, for, and about') gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, from Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to Ang Lee's "Brokeback... See full summary »
Directors: Lisa Ades, Lesli Klainberg | Stars: Randy Barbato, Dan Bucatinsky, Jonathan Caouette, Ash Christian
Votes: 840
31. The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (1996)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Paul Seydor | Stars: Nick Redman, Walon Green, Newell Alexander, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 275
32. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003 TV Special)
TV-14 | Documentary
The American Film Institute celebrates 100 years of film by recognizing the top 50 film heroes and top 50 film villains of all time.
Directors: Gary Smith, Dann Netter | Stars: Kathy Bates, Anthony Hopkins, Hayden Christensen, Glenn Close
Votes: 271
33. Hollywood Cowboy (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson finishes a picture and goes camping. Attracted to Joyce Butler, he hires on at her ranch and ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewing Scott, George Sherman | Stars: George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Maude Eburne, Joe Caits
Votes: 188
34. John Wayne: American Hero of the Movies (1990 Video)
60 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure
Star: John Wayne
35. Stampede (2022)
85 min | Western
Set in the old west of 1897, Michelle, the daughter of a wealthy cattle rancher in Santa Fe, New Mexico, runs away to join a cattle drive to Albuquerque. On the way she encounters a ... See full summary »
Director: David Rambaldi | Stars: Jesus Banuelos, Marcus DeVries, Ray J. Martinez, Sarah Ureta
36. How the West Was Lost (2008 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary
Rich Hall looks at how the most quintessentially American film genre, the Western, came to be killed off.
Director: Chris Cottam | Stars: Rich Hall, Karen Jones, Edward Buscombe, Ben Traywick
Votes: 118
37. Western, Italian Style (1968 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 38 min | Documentary
A contemporary overview of the Spaghetti Western phenomenon of the 1960s, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with directors and actors from such films.
Director: Patrick Morin | Stars: Frank Wolff, Chuck Connors, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Herlin
Votes: 110
38. Clint Eastwood: Director (1982 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
Stars: Iain Johnstone, Clint Eastwood, Craig Thomas, Warren Clarke
Votes: 53
39. Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys (1992)
80 min | Documentary
Thys Ockersen enjoyed in his childhood in the fifties with his friends the Roy Rogers pictures in the local cinema. Many years later he starts his search for the old singing cowboy and his ... See full summary »
Director: Thys Ockersen | Stars: Pat Brady, Bullet, Buttermilk, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 57
40. A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and the Searchers (1998)
34 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Documentary on the making of The Searchers (1956), starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford, with outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with many of the surviving cast and crew.
Director: Nick Redman | Stars: Patrick Wayne, John Milius, Pippa Scott, Lana Wood
Votes: 188
41. The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' (1998 Video)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary about the making of D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 film 'The Birth of a Nation'.
Director: Robert G. Beecher | Stars: David Shepard, Miriam Cooper, Lillian Gish, D.W. Griffith
Votes: 57
42. Thank Ya, Thank Ya Kindly (1991 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary, Biography
Guests: Clint Eastwood, Paul Hogan, Harry Carey Jr, Dean Smith, Ben Johnson, Frankie Avalon and director, Burt Kennedy. Directed by Clyde Lucas
Director: Clyde Lucas | Stars: Hank Worden, Frankie Avalon, Harry Carey Jr., Clint Eastwood
Votes: 18
43. The Making of 'High Noon' (1992 Video)
22 min | Short, Documentary
A documentary about High Noon (1952).
Stars: Leonard Maltin, Stanley Kramer, Fred Zinnemann, David Crosby
Votes: 97
44. Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and times of actor Steve McQueen, on the 75th anniversary of his birth
Director: Mimi Freedman | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Culp, Neile Adams, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 334
45. Movie Tough Guys (1991 Video)
Not Rated | 59 min | Documentary
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, James Cagney, Gary Cooper
46. Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs (2000 TV Movie)
95 min | Documentary
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Emery | Stars: Dave Mann, Wally Albright, Rex Allen, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
Votes: 23
47. The Spaghetti West (2005 Video)
65 min | Documentary
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Director: David Gregory | Stars: Ferdinando Baldi, Manolo Bolognini, Enzo G. Castellari, Sergio Corbucci
Votes: 281
48. Spaghetti Western Trailer Show (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 111 min | Documentary
Collection of classic spaghetti western trailers from the film vaults of Something Weird Video.
49. The Making of 'Tombstone' (2002 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short
A Documentary covering the making of the 1993 Western 'Tombstone' featuring cast and crew
Stars: George P. Cosmatos, Kurt Russell, Wyatt Earp, Powers Boothe
Votes: 93
50. An Opera of Violence (2003 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short
Part one of the making of Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West.
Director: Lancelot Narayan | Stars: Christopher Frayling, Tonino Delli Colli, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bernardo Bertolucci
Votes: 207