Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cattle-rancher"

1. Silverado (1985)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette

Votes: 49,516 | Gross: $33.20M

2. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman

Votes: 331,299 | Gross: $53.61M

3. The English (2022)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Western

Follows a woman as she seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

Stars: Emily Blunt, Chaske Spencer, Stephen Rea, Tom Hughes

Votes: 29,172

4. How the West Was Won (1962)

G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda

Votes: 23,357 | Gross: $46.50M

5. Secrets (1933)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A New England society girl braves the West to help her husband build his fortune.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Friderici

Votes: 723 | Gross: $0.70M

6. Temple Grandin (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara

Votes: 32,604

7. The Marksman (2021)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S.

Director: Robert Lorenz | Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Liam Neeson, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba

Votes: 43,293

8. The Big Country (1958)

Passed | 166 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston

Votes: 21,142

9. Red River (1948)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan

Votes: 34,431

10. Red Dead Redemption (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

A former outlaw is forced by the federal government to hunt down the members of his old gang.

Stars: Rob Wiethoff, Josh Blaylock, Sophia Marzocchi, Spider Madison

Votes: 30,548

11. Hud (1963)

Passed | 112 min | Drama, Western

Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde

Votes: 23,958 | Gross: $10.00M

12. Cattle Empire (1958)

Approved | 83 min | Western

Released from prison, a trail boss is solicited by rival cattle barons to drive their respective cattle herds to Fort Clemson.

Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates

Votes: 790

13. Prime Cut (1972)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins

Votes: 5,870 | Gross: $0.52M

14. The Tall Stranger (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Western

Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Pate

Votes: 928

15. My Darling Clementine (1946)

Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs

Votes: 25,775

16. Fast Food Nation (2006)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama

An examination of the health risks involved in the fast food industry as well as its environmental and social consequences.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 25,158 | Gross: $1.00M

17. Texas Rangers (2001)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the dangerous, ruthless duty of cleaning up the West.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: James Van Der Beek, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ashton Kutcher, Dylan McDermott

Votes: 6,322 | Gross: $0.62M

18. Lawman (1971)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Duvall

Votes: 5,912 | Gross: $5.94M

19. Tarantula (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva

Votes: 10,785 | Gross: $1.10M

20. Comes a Horseman (1978)

PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A brave and proud woman struggles for her land, finding help and something more in unexpected way.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, George Grizzard

Votes: 3,368

21. The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Western

When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn

Votes: 24,969 | Gross: $1.64M

22. Night of the Lepus (1972)

PG | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west.

Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 5,458

23. Jubal (1956)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A new foreman rejects the sexual advances of a frustrated rancher's wife, which leads to conflicts that could get him killed.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French

Votes: 4,402

24. Flaming Star (1960)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western

When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores Del Río

Votes: 4,076 | Gross: $1.96M

25. A Cowboy Christmas Romance (2023 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Romance

When pro real estate 'closer' Lexie Crenshaw is sent to her hometown of Tubac, AZ to close on a big ranch before Christmas, she is soon forced to confront former family drama as well as the sexy ranch owner who refuses to sell his home.

Director: Jake Helgren | Stars: Jana Kramer, Adam Senn, Mary-Margaret Humes, Bruce Thomas

Votes: 432

26. Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Western

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal

Votes: 4,426

27. Silver Wolf (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A ranger (Michael Biehn) and his 16 year old nephew (Shane Meier) struggle to save a wolf from a rancher (Roy Scheider), who is out to kill it.

Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Michael Biehn, Roy Scheider, Shane Meier, Kimberley Warnat

Votes: 624

28. The Hi-Lo Country (1998)

R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser

Votes: 4,576 | Gross: $0.16M

29. The Furies (1950)

Passed | 109 min | Western

A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson

Votes: 3,909

30. Broken Lance (1954)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

The saga of the Devereaux rancher family, set in 1880's Arizona.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark

Votes: 4,309 | Gross: $8.28M

31. El Paso (1949)

Approved | 103 min | Western

In El Paso, lawyer and ex-Confederate captain Clay Fletcher forms a vigilante group to bring law and order to a town where the judge is a drunk, the sheriff is corrupt and the town is run by a crooked landowner.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 460

32. Face of a Fugitive (1959)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Western

A robber who is falsely accused of murdering a deputy sheriff tries to start a new life in a border town near Mexico, but his past catches up with him.

Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Alan Baxter

Votes: 925

33. Royal Hearts (2018 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Kelly and her father, Hank, receive news that he has inherited an estate in a different country. Upon their arrival, he's shocked to discover that not only has he inherited the estate, but also a kingdom.

Director: James Brolin | Stars: James Brolin, Cindy Busby, Andrew Cooper, Lachlan Nieboer

Votes: 1,624

34. The Second Time Around (1961)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse

Votes: 873

35. Gunfighters (1947)

Passed | 87 min | Western

Gunfighter Brazos Kane takes a job on a ranch but he is unjustly accused of killing fellow cowhand Bob Tyrell and must clear himself by finding the real killer.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Dorothy Hart, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 916

36. From Hell to Texas (1958)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Romance, Western

After ranch hand Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of a powerful rancher, he panics and flees, but the rancher and his vengeful crew hunt Tod down.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 1,152

37. The Hired Gun (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Western

A woman breaks out of jail before hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel

Votes: 385

38. Streets of Laredo (1949)

Passed | 93 min | Drama, Western

An outlaw separates from his two partners in crime after they join the Texas Rangers, and he continues to commit daring robberies.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: William Holden, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman, William Bendix

Votes: 794

39. Three Hours to Kill (1954)

Approved | 77 min | Western

Framed for murder, Jim Guthrie barely escapes lynching by the town mob, becomes a wanted fugitive for three years but returns to find the real killer.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott

Votes: 914

40. Whispering Smith (1948)

Passed | 88 min | Western

Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,387

41. OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965)

99 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Agent OSS 117 is dispatched to Rio de Janeiro to investigate an organization developing a mysterious drug which is capable of completely controlling anyone injected with it.

Director: André Hunebelle | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Pellegrin, Perrette Pradier

Votes: 435

42. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas

Votes: 2,400

43. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Western

Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell

Votes: 459

44. Dos valientes (1969)

87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In his home-town, he's a respectable rancher - but out on the range he's a hit-man for hire. His son finds out about his double life, and.

Director: Alfonso Corona Blake | Stars: Luis Aguilar, Rodolfo de Anda, Lucha Villa, Fernanda Aguilar

45. Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)

TV-14 | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail.

Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Martin Sensmeier, Dermot Mulroney, Tommy Flanagan, James Landry Hébert

Votes: 1,003

46. Mail Order Bride (2008 TV Movie)

PG | 88 min | Romance, Western

Diana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. She takes the place of her dying friend, who was to become some man's mail-order bride. Can she pull off this last con?

Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Daphne Zuniga, Greg Evigan, Cameron Bancroft, Vincent Gale

Votes: 501

47. San Antonio (1945)

Passed | 109 min | Western

Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town.

Directors: David Butler, Robert Florey, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S.Z. Sakall, Victor Francen

Votes: 1,847

48. Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller

Votes: 1,052

49. The Wild Country (1970)

G | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard, Clint Howard

Votes: 349

50. Saddle the Wind (1958)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, Western

Former gunslinger Steve Sinclair (Taylor), is now a peaceful rancher, but things go wrong when his wild brother Tony (Cassavetes) arrives with his new gun--and his new fiancée, former saloon girl Joan Blake (London).

Directors: Robert Parrish, John Sturges | Stars: Robert Taylor, Julie London, John Cassavetes, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,720