Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Western
Year: 2012
Country: Australia
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Anthony Hayes, Luke Ford, Bojana Novakovic, David Mealor, Dan Wyllie, Michaela Cantwell, Eliza Lovell
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
This film is about a lot more than just the neighbours. In fact it subtly and silently relies on that long running soap as a platform to explore a side of Australia that isn't cheesy at all. Where do all the schizoid, emotionally disabled ,morally destitute, drug addled violent detritus of the lucky country live and what can you do about it? Can you bear it to imagine being anywhere near them and how easy some homicidal programme based on eugenic principles might appeal to progressive middle class gentrifiers faced with horrific disturbance imposed on peace and quiet, let alone petty crime, helplessness and vicious anti social behavior are so...
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Guy Pearce, Noah Taylor, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, Lew Temple
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
The three Bondurant brothers run a bootlegging operation during the depression, up in the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia. Crooked Special Deputy Charles Rakes is after a share of the brothers' profits. Compounding their troubles, the local competition is elbowing in on their activities. Forrest's boisterous defiance and Cricket's knack for moonshine production help the brothers gain a local monopoly. When Forrest is wounded as tension with Rakes escalates, Jack, initially the timid one, must prove his worth against gangster Floyd Banner's mob, and we see him metamorphose into a cocky exhibitionist in his attempts to woo the off-limits...
Genres: Western
Year: 2012
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Rachel Talalay
Starring: Danny Glover, Billy Zane, Tom Carey, Brendan Fletcher, Ryan Kennedy, Kimberly Elise, John Pyper-Ferguson
Available Quality: DivX
Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Director: Drew Cullingham
Starring: Doug Bradley, Grace Vallorani, Rita Ramnani, Victoria Broom, James Fisher, Jonnie Hurn, Aj Williams
Available Quality: DivX
In the Old West, the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress, the would-be killer left for dead in the dust. A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror, long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert, is liberated from an American collector's vault and illegally transported to Europe. Jacob, an unscrupulous antiques dealer, moves to a remote farmhouse with his pregnant young wife, Lauren, and his difficult ward, Rachel. His goals are clear: to pass this near-priceless mirror to the highest bidder, and to prevent these two women from ripping each other apart. Nearby, a beautiful ornithologist, in nocturnal pursui...
Genres: Documentary, Western
Year: 2012
Country: USA
Director: Alex Dawson, Greg Gricus
Starring: Alex Dawson, Greg Gricus
Available Quality: DivX
A handful of unforgettable characters set out on a 100-day quest to tame a totally wild mustang for a Texas competition in this stunning and poignant documentary. Among them: Charles, a Navajo grandfather out to re-capture his youth; George, a grizzled cowboy with a stubborn streak; and Wylene, a blond beauty with a theatrical flare and a nerve of steel. In three months, man and horse must transform from scared strangers to close companions. It won't be an easy journey. Bones and egos will take a beating. Fear and frustration will weed many out. But those who prevail may find themselves desperately vying to keep their horses when they ultimat...
Genres: Western
Year: 2011
Country: USA
Director: Thomas Russell
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Jon Gries, Margot Kidder, Barry Corbin, Rance Howard, Larry Thomas, Tod Huntington
Available Quality: DivX
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deserving of Christian love. It follows the story of Henry Heath, a law officer in 1862 Salt Lake City. Heath finds himself responsible for the well-being of a prisoner whom he despises - an impoverished French immigrant named Jean Baptiste who is convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased. Baptiste is exiled to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. With no one willing to look after this man, Henry Heath becomes Baptiste's sole defense against the hostile isolation of Antelope Island and the contempt of an entire community. Through h...
Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Year: 2003
Country: USA
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Julio Oscar Mechoso, Danny Trejo, Eva Mendes, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The film is based on the story of a drug lord Barrillo, who pretends to overthrow the Mexican president. Within the drama, another of the principal persons is a corrupt CIA agent Sands who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy in order to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government. El Mariachi (Antonio Bandares) is recruited by Sands to take out General Marquez (has a huge score to settle with the Mariachi), who has major beef with Mariachi to begin with. He sends Cucuy (the muscle for Sands) to shadow and keep tabs on the Mariachi. Marquez is working with Barrillo, and is about to assassinate the president and...
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, D.B. Sweeney, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Epic story about two former Texas rangers who decide to move cattle from the south to Montana. Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call run into many problems on the way, and the journey doesn't end without numerous casualties. (6 hrs approx)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Year: 2001
Country: USA
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Leonor Varela, Tom Skerritt, Alfred Molina, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Robert Patrick, Rachael Leigh Cook
Available Quality: Hi Def
Set during the American Civil War of the 1860s, 'Texas Rangers' is a story about a group of men determined to maintain peace and contain the chaos that is erupting on the Texan frontier. Native Americans are attempting to reclaim their land, Mexicans are pouring over the U.S. border, and renegade outlaws are tearing up the state, so the Texas Rangers swear to protect the innocent and their loved. To do so, they must be willing to maintain the peace where law enforcement cannot, fight while they are out-manned and out-armed by the opponent, and be willing to die for the freedom for which they fight.
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Year: 1939
Country: USA
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Tim Holt, Donald Meek, Berton Churchill
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.
Genres: Western
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Tommy Nelson, Will Patton, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Zoe Kazan
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When a Native American wanderer crosses their path, the emigrants are torn between their trust in a guide who has proven himself unreliable and a man who has always been seen as the na...
Genres: Action, Biography, Western
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: John Hurt, David Arquette, Bruce Dern, Diane Lane, Pato Hoffmann, James Gammon, James Remar
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Wild Bill Hickok, famed lawman and gunman of the Old West, is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by, but cannot love, Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall, who blames Bill for abandoning the boy's mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill, and Bill's ghosts, his failing eyesight, and his fondness for opium may make McCall's task easier.
Genres: Western
Year: 2011
Country: New Zealand
Director: Mike Wallis
Starring: Cohen Holloway, Richard Thompson, Pana Hema Taylor, Barnie Duncan, Tony Wyeth, Inge Rademeyer, Jon Pheloung
Available Quality: DivX
An ironic look into the emotional confusion of an outlaw who reluctantly develops strong feelings for a woman he has kidnapped, while finding he is unable to "perform" when trying to have his way with her. This results in his seeking help with his problem from a doctor then medicine men, both Chinese and Native American. All the while, the pair are being pursued by a posse out to kill both of them. This deadpan comedy drama has high production values, wonderful photography and a memorable original soundtrack combined with a minimalist script and action that is sometimes over the top to the extent that twice I found myself laughing uncontrolla...
Genres: Western
Year: 1971
Country: Italy, Spain
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Starring: Franco Fantasia, Yul Brynner, Ignazio Spalla, Vittorio Fanfoni, Andrea Scotti, Omar Bonaro, Dean Reed
Available Quality: DivX
Master gunslinger Sabata helps some Mexican revolutionaries steal a wagonload of gold.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Western
Year: 2010
Country: China, Hong Kong
Director: Wen Jiang
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Lu Yao, Wen Jiang, Carina Lau, You Ge, Kun Chen
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Western
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Starring: Denver Pyle, Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks
Available Quality: DivX
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams is a 1972 novel by Charles E. Sellier Jr., a 1974 film based on the novel, a two-season NBC television series, and a 1982 TV movie. The title character, played by Dan Haggerty, is loosely based on the actual trapper James "Grizzly" Adams.
Genres: Adventure, Family, Western
Year: 1978
Country: USA
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Starring: Denver Pyle, Dan Haggerty, Don Shanks
Available Quality: DivX
Grizzly Adams (Haggerty) is a woodsman during the frontier era who flees into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder. While struggling to survive, Adams discovers an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he takes in and calls Ben. The bear, despite his huge adult size, becomes Adams's closest companion. Adams proves to have an uncanny link to most of the indigenous wildlife of the region, who have no fear of him. In return, he resolves never to harm another animal whenever possible. In the television series, Adams had two human companions, an old trader named Mad Jack the Mountain Man (Denver Pyle, commonly featured with a mule named "N...
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Josh Brolin, Stephen Baldwin, Brett Cullen, Anthony Zerbe, Melissa Leo, Christopher Pettiet, Don Franklin
Available Quality: DivX
Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus was a group of young Express riders based at the waystation in Sweetwater, Kansas. Running the station was ex-Texas Ranger and all-around eccentric Teaspoon Hunter. The role of cook, housekeeper and mother hen was filled first by Emma and later by Rachel. The riders included the future "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok, as well as Ike, a mute, Buck, a half-White/half-Kiowa scout and the Kid, a quiet Southerner. Their final member was Lou, a young woman who lived and worked with the r...
Genres: Western
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Craig A. Butler
Starring: Billy Garberina, Jan Cunningham, Craig Myers, Justin Tade, Jeremy Owen, Phil Duran, Alexander Thorne
Available Quality: DivX
Hobbs, a notorious wanted bandit, gets caught up in a violently competitive hunt for stolen cash when he finds out outlaws have robbed the local bank. While trying to get back what's his he must saddle up to stop these outlaws leaving whomever stands in his way dead!
Year: 1947
Country: USA
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Barrat, Russell Hicks, Robert Armstrong, Melvyn Douglas, Trevor Bardette
Available Quality: DivX
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Pork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Hepburn's character, Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own, and eventually leaves him just long enough to conceive a child with her husband's moral enemy. Two years later, in the midst of a crisis, her husband discovers ...