Movie Listings by Genre

Director: Robert Zemeckis    More Info
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue, Matt Clark, Richard Dysart, Pat Buttram, Dub Taylor

 Marty (Michael J. Fox) and the Doc (Christopher Lloyd) are back, but now they are living in the 1800s after Doc has been sucked back into the Old West. In spite of Doc Brown's warnings not to use the time machine again, Marty goes back to save his friend's life. Again, he encounters Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), but this time he's Biff's evil ancestor.

Director: C.J. McIntyre    More Info
Starring: Cody Glenn, Jeff Kaake, Glenn Ford, Lizabeth Rohovit, Michael Horse, Russell Todd, Michael Ansara

 The atmosphere in a small Arizona town becomes charged when citizens call for the immediate lynching of some captured cattle rustlers. Good material wasted by poor production.

Director: Kevin Costner    More Info
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Charles Rocket, Maury Chaykin, Tantoo Cardinal, Robert Pastorelli, Wes Studi

 This Academy Award winner for Best Picture is the story of a Union soldier (Kevin Costner) who is sent to a frontier outpost where he befriends a tribe of Sioux Indians. When he grows to appreciate the Indians more than his own race and falls in love with a woman of the tribe, the Army calls him a renegade. Good fare. Costner won an Oscar for Best Director. In all, seven Academy Awards were received along with five nominations, which included Best Actor (Costner), Supporting Actor (Graham Greene), and Supporting Actress (Mary McDonnell).

Director: William A. Graham    More Info
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Richard Crenna, Lea Thompson, Justin Deas, Elizabeth Berridge, Darren Dalton, Scott Coffey, Michael Madsen, Jim Bishop, Dana Andersen

 Good action prevails in this Western film about a long-married couple Bess and Hoyce Guthrie (Gena Rowlands and Richard Crenna). They are at a crisis point in their lives over the decision of whether to remain ranchers or allow progressive technology to take over their lives.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt    More Info
Starring: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Helen Shaver, June Cameron, Michael Marich, Emily Warfield

 A Texas Ranger (Kris Kristofferson) and a crook (Willie Nelson) pursue a killer in this made-for-TV thriller. There is a sequel: "Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind."

Director: Simon Wincer    More Info
Starring: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner, Jerome Ehlers, Conor McDermottroe, Roger Ward, Ben Mendelsohn

 American cowboy Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) answers an ad placed by Australian rancher Elliott Marston (Alan Rickman) to come to his ranch and shoot dingoes. Upon arrival at the Marston Ranch, Quigley learns that Marston wants him to shoot aborigines. Quigley refuses, Marston tries to kill him, Quigley escapes with ex-patriot American Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo), and aborigines take care of the fleeing couple. But, by story's end, Marston still must be dealt with.

Director: Geoff Murphy    More Info
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, R.D. Call, James Coburn, Balthazar Getty, Jack Kehoe

 Young teen idols make up much of the cast of this oft-told tale of Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez). This time, the gang is heading toward Mexico after springing two of them. Hot on the trail is Pat Garrett (William Petersen) and his deputies. Lots of shooting. Good photography and musical score add to the movie.

Director: Bill Bixby    More Info
Starring: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Joan Severance, Danny Kamin, Ken Farmer

 Once again, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson team up as the Texas Ranger and the crook. In this film, they try to find evidence that will free their friend (Rip Torn) from a prison sentence.

Director: Ron Underwood    More Info
Starring: Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Jack Palance, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Noble Willingham, Tracey Walter, Josh Mostel, David Paymer

 On the occasion of his 39th birthday, Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) is confronted with the fact that he is running out of time to accomplish many things he has thought about doing. He takes his two best friends Ed and Phil (Bruno Kirby and Daniel Stern) with him on a two-week cattle drive where they run into tough old drover Curly Washburn (Jack Palance) and come close to discovering the meaning of life. Jack Palance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Director: Reynaldo Villalobos    More Info
Starring: Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Barry Corbin, Billy Green Bush, Ken Curtis, Dub Taylor, Paul Koslo, Gavan O'Herlihy, James Parks, Pepe Serna

 Evie (Katharine Ross), alone and raising two children, runs a stagecoach station, and cowhand Conn (Sam Elliott) works hard–including keeping rustlers in check. Their paths cross in this tribute to the old West. This made-for-TV film is based on a Louis L'Amour novel.

Director: Dick Lowry    More Info
Starring: Kenny Rogers, Rick Rossovich, Reba McEntire, Jere Burns, Juliana Donald, Gene Barry, Linda Evans, Brian Keith, Claude Akins, Paul Brinegar

 Kenny Rogers is back as gambler Brady Hawkes. This time he becomes involved with Burgundy Jones (Reba McEntire) as he heads to San Francisco for a BIG poker game. The best of the series.

Director: Sam Pillsbury    More Info
Starring: Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Helen Hunt, Dylan McDermott, Lisa Pelikan, Andrew Robinson, Adam Sanchez, Jerry Gardner, Michael J. Metzger, Steven Schwartz-Hartley

 This Western/Horror flick is a little strange, to say the least. Barston (Bruce Dern) is a bounty hunter searching for an outlaw. He's tough–to the point of cutting off a frostbitten toe. Other characters enter and leave the scene in this confusing mess. Interesting cast in this made-for-cable TV film.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg    More Info
Starring: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney, Gary Busey, Clarence Williams III, Dub Taylor, Clu Gulager

 This is a contemporary Western in which an aging rodeo bull rider goes home to recover from a serious rodeo injury. In the process, he saves his father from a nursing home, falls in love, and decides to try one last ride on the bull that almost killed him.

Director: Anthony Hickox    More Info
Starring: Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, David Carradine, John Ireland, Bert Remsen, M. Emmet Walsh, Maxwell Caulfield, Deborah Foreman, Jim Metzler, Dabbs Greer

 It's been a hassle, all those years with vampires vs. humans. So, it seemed the right time for the vampires to live in peace in an old ghost town with their sun block 30, etc., and artificial blood made from plants. When the blood plant does not produce enough blood, its designer David Harrison (Jim Metzler) and his wife Sarah (Morgan Brittany) arrive in the ghost town and find themselves in the middle of trouble. There are those fundamentalists, led by Jefferson (John Ireland), who want the real thing and are ready to rise up against the peaceful vampire leader, Count Mardulak (David Carradine), who ordered the blood plant as a method of integrating the vampires into the human world. War it shall be.

Director: Clint Eastwood    More Info
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Saul Rubinek, Frances Fisher, Rob Campbell, Anthony James, Shane Meier, Jaimz Woolvett

 In 1880s' Wyoming, William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a former outlaw who has switched to the side of the law after marriage, but now his wife has died. In the nearby town of Big Whiskey, Sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) has denied legal rights to the town's prostitutes, and they have put a $1000 bounty on the sheriff's life. The Schofield Kid ((Jaimz Woolvett) arrives on the scene and convinces Munny to come to the prostitute's aid and collect the bounty money. Munny joins up with his neighbor Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman), and they head to Big Whiskey to right the wrongs done to the prostitutes and end the rule of the corrupt sheriff. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Clint Eastwood won for Best Director, and Gene Hackman won for Best Supporting Actor. Eastwood was also nominated for Best Actor.

Director: Walter Hill    More Info
Starring: Wes Studi, Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant, Kevin Tighe, Stephen McHattie, Scott Wilson, Lee de Broux

 Finally, a film is made that attempts to show the Native American perspective of their U.S. government-ordered resettlement to reservations in Arizona during the 1800s. Geronimo (Wes Studi) and a small band of warriors escape from the reservation, and General George Crook (Gene Hackman) does try, unsuccessfully, to bring Geronimo back to the reservation. Finally, after five years of eluding capture, Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Damon) and Lt. Gatewood (Jason Patric) convince Geronimo to surrender. But, when all is said and done, all involved share a respect for Geronimo.

Director: Mario Van Peebles    More Info
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles(3) Lane, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Big Daddy Kane, Billy Zane, Melvin Van Peebles, Pam Grier, Isaac Hayes, Blair Underwood

 Black soldiers go AWOL from the Army following the Spanish-American War. Along with them is a fortune in Spanish gold. They end up in a town about to be eliminated by the coming railroad and await the showdown.

Director: George P. Cosmatos    More Info
Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert Mitchum, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Joanna Pacula

 It's all there–Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1879 when the Earp brothers–Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) join their brother Wyatt in a battle against the outlaw gang, the Cowboys. After the Cowboys take revenge by killing Morgan and injuring Virgil, Wyatt leaves town. But, Wyatt returns as a U.S. marshal and hunts down the Cowboys, which results in their leader, Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn), challenging Wyatt to a duel. This time around, more attention is given to providing insights into those involved, as well as accuracy in detail. Overall, a good story.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan    More Info
Starring: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo, James LeGros, Robert Loggia, Dermot Mulroney, Cooper Huckabee

 This is a modern Western in which four women (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore) are forced into living lives outside the law in order to survive.

Director: Maggie Greenwald    More Info
Starring: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgress, Rene Auberjonois, Heather Graham, Sam Robards, Anthony Heald, Melissa Leo

 Josephine (Suzy Amis) arrives in the West to escape the prejudices of the East (she had an illegitimate baby), and finds more problems in her new life. To escape the stigma of being a woman, Josephine disguises herself as a male and becomes "Little Jo." As such, she experiences life on the frontier as a male, which poses fewer problems.

Director: Paul Weiland    More Info
Starring: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jack Palance, Jon Lovitz, Patricia Wettig, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Noble Willingham, David Paymer, Josh Mostel, Bill McKinney

 In this sequel, the story begins with Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) walking down the street telling his friend that he is getting too heavy. The camera pans to the "friend," who turns out to be Norman, the pet calf from the original "City Slickers." This time around, Mitch is lamenting the death of Curly, and, with his two friends Glen and Duke (Jon Lovitz and Daniel Stern) heads for the hills around Las Vegas and join Curly's twin brother Duke (Jack Palance) in search of a buried treasure.

Director: P.J. Pesce    More Info
Starring: Sam Elliott, Craig Sheffer, Linda Fiorentino, Frank Whaley, John Furlong, Robin Westphal, Boots Southerland, Joey Hamlin, Daniel O'Haco, Bradley Whitford

 Sarah O'Rourke (Linda Fiorentino) killed her husband who just happens to be the son of Marshall Bill Speakes (Sam Elliott), a no-nonsense lawman who is now hot on her trail and that of her traveling cohort, Jack Cooper (Craig Sheffer), as well.

Director: Jack Bender    More Info
Starring: Kenny Rogers, Scott Paulin, Brett Cullen, Mariska Hargitay, Kris Kamm, Ned Vaughn, Martin Kove, Richard Riehle, Geoffrey Lewis, Stephen Bridgewater

 In the final episode of "The Gambler" series, Brady (Kenny Rogers) sees a picture of his now-grown son, Jeremiah (Kris Kamm), with Butch Cassidy (Scott Paulin) and Sundance Kid (Brett Cullen). The chase is on to "rescue" his son from the outlaws, which leads all the way to Bolivia. Made for TV.

Director: Geoff Murphy    More Info
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Dermot Mulroney, Ted Levine, John C. McGinley, Steve Buscemi, Keith David, Daniel Quinn, Gavan O'Herlihy, Richard Fancy, Paul Ben-Victor

 After being betrayed during a robbery, outlaw leader Graff (Mickey Rourke) sets out to kill each of his betrayers one-by-one.

Director: Edward Zwick    More Info
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Brad Pitt, Henry Thomas, Julia Ormond, Anthony Hopkins, Karina Lombard, Tantoo Cardinal, Kenneth Welsh, Christina Pickles, Gordon Tootoosis

 English Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and his three sons–Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt), and Samuel (Henry Thomas)–live separate lives on their Montana ranch. In a rather confusing plot (with even more confusing characters), the brothers all love the same woman (Julia Ormond). An Oscar was awarded for Best Cinematography.