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1) Shane
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acclaimed director George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations, and made Shane one of the classics of the American cinema. The story brings Alan Ladd, a drifter and retired gunfighter, to the assistance of a homestead family terrorized by a wealthy cattleman and his hired gun (Jack Palance). In fighting the last decisive battle, SHANE sees the end of his own way of life. Mysterious, moody...
2) Jauja
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Language
Español
Formats
Description
An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, JAUJA (pronounced how-ha) begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from abroad with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army. Being the only female in the area, Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together....
Language
English
Formats
Description
A merciless cowboy (Bill Pullman) sets out on a dangerous journey across the frontier, determined to do whatever it takes to avenge his longtime partner's brutal murder in this thrilling, action-packed western. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. "*This is a satisfying indie western, a dark and brooding film made with both a modern touch and real love for the genre.*" - Kenneth Turan, ***The Los Angeles Times***
4) Rams
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In remote Western Australia, two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family's prized bloodline, the two men work side by side yet are worlds apart. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, Les opts for angry defiance....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This AGTA 2008 award winning program looks at issues related to management of beaches and development near beaches in NSW, Queensland and Western Australia. Case studies include Duranbah Beach and sand pumping at the Tweed, The Gold Coast, new housing developments at "Salt" and "Casuarina" near the Tweed and how developers and communities reached agreement, Sydney-inappropriate development near beaches, pollution and protecting ecosystems, SW Western...
7) Oklahoma!
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
70 year old Grace Mallard refuses to believe her son Andrew is guilty of murder. 11 years ago Andrew was put away for life for the murder of a local jeweler. Over the course of a decade, Grace and her devastated family doggedly fight on to set him free. Along the way they recruit investigative journalist Colleen Egan, charismatic MP John Quigley and top QC Malcolm McCusker to help them. All are convinced that Andrew never got a fair trial. Together...
9) El Dorado
Language
English
Formats
Description
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."
10) The Salvation
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mighty Mads Mikkelsen unleashes a maelstrom of bloodshed in the Wild West in this white-knuckle tale of revenge, co-starring Eva Green.
11) Go West
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
12) Hickok
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In hopes of escaping his past as gunslinger and outlaw, "Wild Bill" Hickok has drifted to Abilene, Kansas to start a new life as town marshal. His efforts are challenged when saloon owner Poe attempts to destroy him and the town he calls home.
15) Fool for Love
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Cowboy drifter Eddie (Sam Shepard) reconnects with May (Kim Basinger), the love of his life, in a seedy desert motel even though she's taken up with a new boyfriend (Randy Quaid). But that's not the only threat to their rekindled passion. A mysterious old man (Harry Dean Stanton) also harbors a secret so dark and forbidden, it could destroy Eddie and May's love forever. Based on Shepard's own award-winning play and directed by seven time Academy Award®...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD is based on the classic novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn with a screenplay by award-winning filmmaker Anne Makepeace (Tribal Justice). Upon its release in 1990, the film won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A Million Acres A Year describes the epic history of post war agricultural development in Western Australia and the personal journeys of some country people - a rural vanguard which has come to acknowledge that current forms of agriculture are not sustainable, and that the limited solutions we are trying to implement are not enough. Their story unfolds in the remaining mallee/heath lands of WA's 'Wheatbelt', most of which were released to agriculture...
18) The Dark Valley
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he's from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn't given them...
19) The Iron Horse
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
20) Montana Story
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.
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