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Cast

Khris Davis

Forest Whitaker

Sullivan Jones

Deion Smith

Big George Foreman (2023)

7.6 368 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.

Plot: adultery, sports, biography, based on true story, family, boxing, inspirational, hopeful

Time: 1970s, 1980s, 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Style: cynical, provocative

Plot: new york city, friendship, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, shower, hustler, homelessness, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

J. Michael Finley

Madeline Carroll

Dennis Quaid

Trace Adkins

I Can Only Imagine (2018)

7.5 507 votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, Arthur. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by embracing his faith and rediscovering his love for his son. Years later, Bart's troubled childhood and mended relationship with his dad inspires him to write the hit song "I Can Only Imagine" as singer of the Christian band MercyMe.

Plot: musician, abusive father, redemption, based on true story, singer-songwriter, father son relationship, christian film, christian faith, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Zac Efron

Jeremy Allen White

Harris Dickinson

Stanley Simons

The Iron Claw (2023)

7.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

Style: intimate

Plot: sports, wrestling, brotherhood, biography, dallas, texas, based on true story, dysfunctional family, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Place: texas

A Perfect World (1993)

7.5 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

Plot: hostage, prison escape, escaped convict, child kidnapping, child driving car, criminologist

Time: 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Warren Beatty

Faye Dunaway

Michael J. Pollard

Gene Hackman

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

7.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Style: witty

Plot: sheriff, waitress, ambush, submachine gun, bank robber, oklahoma, impotence, missouri, ...

Time: prohibition era

Place: texas

The Night Shift (2014) TV Show

7.5 246 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 45

Audience: TV-14

Story: The stories of the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan.

Plot: night shift, hospital, doctor, emergency room, ex military, medical drama, san antonio, texas

Cast

Tom Hanks

Bill Paxton

Kevin Bacon

Gary Sinise

Apollo 13 (1995)

7.5 6.0K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Plot: rescue, race against time, moon, nasa, spaceman, based on true story, houston, texas, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Kevin Spacey

Kate Winslet

Laura Linney

Rhona Mitra

The Life of David Gale (2003)

7.4 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Plot: prison, journalist, death penalty, professor, death row, interview, murder, reporter, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Dominic Cooper

Ruth Negga

Joseph Gilgun

Ian Colletti

Preacher (2016) TV Show

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 43

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

Plot: vampire, supernatural, god, based on comic, demon, preacher, supernatural power

Place: texas

Waco (2018) TV Show

7.4 249 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: The harrowing true story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and the Branch Davidians, a spiritual sect led by David Koresh in Waco, TX that resulted in a deadly shootout and fire.

Plot: fbi, siege, cult, based on true story, shootout, raid, cult leader, standoff, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Mike Judge

Kathy Najimy

Pamela Adlon

Stephen Root

King of the Hill (1997) TV Show

7.4 677 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 15

Episodes: 275

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, family, and country, but his values and ethics are often challenged by the situations he, his family, and his beer-drinking neighbors/buddies find themselves in.

Plot: family, propane, adult animation

Place: texas

Cast

Emily Blunt

Benicio del Toro

Josh Brolin

Victor Garber

Sicario (2015)

7.4 9.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Plot: mission, assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), corruption, bomb, fbi, smoking, border, ...

Place: mexico, texas

Office Space (1999)

7.4 3.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.

Plot: work, waitress, printer, bad boss, satire, dallas, texas, suburbia, ...

Cast

John Wayne

Montgomery Clift

Joanne Dru

Walter Brennan

Red River (1948)

7.3 598 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Story: Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

Plot: kansas, usa, cattle drive, revenge, black and white, cattle, adopted child, cattle empire

Time: 1850s

Place: texas

Cast

Jason London

Matthew McConaughey

Joey Lauren Adams

Rory Cochrane

Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

Plot: high school, coming of age, marijuana, summer, period drama, teen comedy, teenager, stoner comedy, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Chris Pine

Ben Foster

Gil Birmingham

Hell or High Water (2016)

7.3 4.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

Plot: brother, bank robber, road trip, gun battle, police officer killed, criminal, held at gunpoint, car fire, ...

Place: texas

Cast

John Getz

Frances McDormand

Dan Hedaya

Samm-Art Williams

Blood Simple (1985)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Plot: husband wife relationship, boss, lover, employee, money, killer, double cross, extramarital affair, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Marilyn Burns

Allen Danziger

Paul A. Partain

William Vail

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

7.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: R

Story: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: van, gas station, sadistic, leatherface, hitchhiker, slaughterhouse, slasher, chainsaw, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Mia Goth

David Corenswet

Tandi Wright

Matthew Sunderland

Pearl (2022)

7.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

Style: nostalgic, whimsical

Plot: farm, pornography, dance performance, confession, alligator, barn, prequel, murder, ...

Time: 1910s

Place: texas

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