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Clint Eastwood

Bradley Cooper

Laurence Fishburne

Michael Peu00f1a

The Mule (2018)

6.9 5.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Plot: drug crime, drug mule, based on true story, old man, drug cartel, dea agent, pickup truck, small town sheriff, ...

Time: 2000s

Place: mexico, texas

Cast

Ana de la Reguera

Josh Lucas

Willow Beuoy

Leven Rambin

The Forever Purge (2021)

6.9 2.7K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

Plot: sequel, murder, desert, survival horror, neo-western, purge, family surviving alone, guns and weapons

Place: texas

Cast

John Wayne

Richard Boone

Maureen O'Hara

Patrick Wayne

Big Jake (1971)

6.9 247 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

Plot: kidnapping, ranch, cigar smoking

Place: texas

Cast

Michael Fassbender

Domhnall Gleeson

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Scoot McNairy

Frank (2014)

6.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.

Style: philosophical, intimate, whimsical

Plot: mask, friendship, musician, identity, songwriter, austin, texas, twitter, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

John Wayne

Maureen O'Hara

Ben Johnson

Claude Jarman Jr.

Rio Grande (1950)

6.8 397 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: U

Story: Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

Plot: settler, apache nation, usa–mexico border, black and white, father son relationship

Place: texas

Cast

Danielle Macdonald

Jennifer Aniston

Odeya Rush

Bex Taylor-Klaus

Dumplin' (2018)

6.8 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

Plot: small town, drag queen, beauty contest, protest, musical, based on young adult novel, plus size, fat shaming, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Brad Pitt

Jessica Chastain

Hunter McCracken

Sean Penn

The Tree of Life (2011)

6.7 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Plot: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, afterlife, christianity, philosophy, tree, sun, telegram, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: texas

Cast

Mia Goth

Jenna Ortega

Brittany Snow

Kid Cudi

X (2022)

6.7 4.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

Style: intimate

Plot: van, pornography, sheriff, war veteran, gas station, shotgun, alligator, porn star, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

Katherine McNamara

Matt Barr

Katie Findlay

Justin Johnson Cortez

Walker Independence (2022) TV Show

6.7 47 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Story: Set in the late 1800s, this origin story follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West, as she crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, a small town with a big future.

Plot: prequel

Place: texas

The Son (2017) TV Show

6.7 147 votes

Genre: Drama

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.

Plot: native american, oil tycoon, comanche

Place: texas

Cast

Adam Sandler

Chris Rock

James Cromwell

Nelly

The Longest Yard (2005)

6.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

Plot: prison, corruption, prisoner, smuggling (contraband), sports, american football, blackmail, american football coach, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Mike Judge

Bruce Willis

Demi Moore

Cloris Leachman

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)

6.6 786 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

Plot: hotel, sperm, washington dc, usa, casino, fbi, sun, road trip, ...

Place: texas, las vegas

Cast

Helen Slater

Keith Gordon

Christian Slater

Richard Bradford

The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)

6.6 208 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Average Texas teen, Billie Jean Davy, is caught up in an odd fight for justice. She is usually followed and harrased around by local boys, who, one day, decide to trash her brother's scooter for fun. The boys' father refuses to pay them back the price of the scooter. The fight for "fair is fair" takes the teens around the state and produces an unlikely hero.

Plot: sexual abuse, chase, runaway, fugitive, girl heroine, female protagonist, false accusations, attempted rape, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Emile Hirsch

Juno Temple

Thomas Haden Church

Killer Joe (2012)

6.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

Plot: trailer park, gun, psychopath, deal, dark comedy, money, arson, sexual humiliation, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Sandra Bullock

Benjamin Bratt

Heather Burns

Michael Caine

Miss Congeniality (2000)

6.5 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

Plot: undercover agent, investigation, beauty contest, talent show, fish out of water, terrorism, surveillance, san antonio, ...

Cast

Olivia Newton-John

Kirk Geiger

Beau Bridges

Bonnie Bedelia

Sordid Lives (2000)

6.5 51 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.

Plot: southern usa, transvestite, dark comedy, based on play or musical, dysfunctional family, male homosexuality, southern baptist, trailer trash, ...

Place: texas

Cast

John Travolta

Debra Winger

Scott Glenn

Madolyn Smith Osborne

Urban Cowboy (1980)

6.5 274 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy, a cowgirl who believes the sexes are equal. They eventually marry, but their relationship is turbulent due to Bud's traditional view of gender roles. Jealousy over his rival leads to their separation, but Bud attempts to win Sissy back by triumphing at Gilley's mechanical bull-riding competition.

Plot: adultery, country music, houston, texas, slice of life, blue collar, gender roles, newlywed, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Luke Wilson

Giovanni Ribisi

Gabriel Macht

James Caan

Middle Men (2009)

6.5 346 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

Plot: pornography, corruption, nightclub, stripper, deception, website, money, wealth, ...

Place: texas