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1) Oklahoma!
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In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
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From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), and based on the novel by Patrick deWitt, THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man. It is 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. They have blood on their hands:...
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Four sets of brothers – David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; James and Stacy Keach; Randy and Dennis Quaid; Christopher and Nicholas Guest – depict real-life siblings in this emotionally charged portrayal of the Old West's legendary bandits. The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country. But when the Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down, these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop...
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Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars as Roy Bean in director John Huston's saga very loosely based on the legend of the West's famous hanging judge who prospers while ruling a desolate West Texas town and worshipping the three loves of his life--an actress he has never met, his faithful mistress and a beer-drinking bear.
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Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star as larger-than-life heroes in this classic Western epic directed by John Sturges. Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp (Lancaster) joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John "Doc" Holliday (Douglas) and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of...
8) El Dorado
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Robert Mitchum plays to perfection an alcoholic but gutsy sheriff who relentlessly battles the dark side of the Wild West, ruthless cattle barons and crooked “businessmen.”
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Fifteen-time Oscar®-nominee John Huston directs the iconic Audrey Hepburn in this tale of forbidden love set against America's most rugged frontier. Born to the Kiowa tribe, but secretly adopted by a white frontier family, Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) becomes the target of lawless brutality when her identity is revealed. When the Kiowa tribe wants her back and the local whites want her dead, her only hope for survival is a man (Burt Lancaster) who must...
10) Comes A Horseman
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Set in the American West of the 1940s, director Alan J. Pakula’s COMES A HORSEMAN gives us a pair of little-guy ranchers (Jane Fonda, James Caan) who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron (Jason Robards) determined to expand his empire at whatever cost. Shot by the incomparable Gordon Willis, with music by the great Michael Small, and featuring an indelible Oscar®-nominated performance from longtime stuntman Richard Farnsworth....
12) Lonesome Dove
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Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love. LONESOME DOVE was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, and won seven. It won two Golden Globes including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
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In a desperate attempt to prime him for rebellion, Ned Kelly's mother, sells him to the notorious bushranger Harry Power, where the young bandit discovers he comes from a line of warriors called the Sons of Sieve. Fueled by his roots and a voracious appetite for revenge, Ned Kelly leads an anarchist army to wreak havoc on Australia's oppressors in one of the most audacious attacks the country has ever seen.
15) The Last Son
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Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty hunters and Sheriff Solomon (Thomas Jane) on his tail, LeMay must find a way to stop his children and end the curse.
16) Wanda Nevada
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A gambler wins an orphaned girl in a poker game, and together they prospect for gold in the Grand Canyon.
17) The New Land
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Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star in the second half of a sweeping epic of the immigrant experience in THE NEW LAND. Continuing the story begun in The Emigrants, a Scandinavian family struggles to survive and tame the wilderness of Minnesota territory in the 1850s as they cope with a harsh climate, isolation and an inability to speak the language of their adopted country. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner for Best Foreign Language...
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Richard Harris stars as an American Northwest frontiersman in 1820 who, badly mangled by a grizzly bear and left alone and unarmed by fellow trappers fleeing renegade Indians, struggles to survive seemingly insurmountable odds and vows to exact revenge on those who abandoned him alone, a MAN IN THE WILDERNESS.
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A Comedy-horror musical loosely based on the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America – Alfred Packer. The sole survivor of an ill-fated trip to the Colorado Territory, he tells his side of the harrowing tale to news reporter Polly Prye as he awaits his execution. CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL is Oklahoma meets Bloodsucking Freaks. Brought to you by the Troma Team and one of the creators of Southpark, Trey Parker – the Rogers...
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Seeking the spoils of a heist gone bad by the McDade brothers, smooth-talking con man Dan Kehoe (Clark Gable) sets about romancing each of their wives (Eleanor Parker, Jean Willes, Barbara Nichols and Sara Shane) in hopes that one of them knows where the stolen gold is hidden. But jealousy among the women soon turns them against one another as they pursue the less-than-scrupulous Dan, all under the watchful eye of their quick-on-the-trigger mother-in-law...
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