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Rango(2011)

3.4/5 (with 2,870 votes)

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

Directed by Gore Verbinski

Tremors(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Horror, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 1,388 votes)

Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

The Shootist(1976)

PG
| 1h 40min | Western, Drama
3.6/5 (with 146 votes)

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.

The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

NR
| 1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Bagdad Cafe(1987)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 155 votes)

A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.

Desert Hearts(1985)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 57 votes)

The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.

The Women(1939)

NR
| 2h 13min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 62 votes)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
2.6/5 (with 135 votes)

Mitch Robbins 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.

Desperation(2006)

R
| 2h 11min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 83 votes)

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

Horror in the High Desert(2021)

1h 22min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.

Directed by Dutch Marich

The Motel Life(2012)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

Love Ranch(2010)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 23 votes)

Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

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Melvin and Howard(1980)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Desert Fury(1947)

NR
| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Rocky Mountain(1950)

NR
| 1h 23min | Adventure, Western
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld.

Prairie Fever(2008)

1h 21min | Action, Western
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A group of women contracted a strange fever and a former sheriff is responsible for taking them to the hospital in the nearest town, but in their way they will encounter a gang of murderers. His only hope is a woman whose beauty is matched only by his skill with weapons.

The Yellow Mountain(1954)

NR
| 1h 17min | Western
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.

Directed by Jesse Hibbs - With Lex Barker

Desert Bloom(1986)

1h 45min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.

Ghost Adventures(2007)

1h 27min | Documentary, Horror
4.2/5 (with 20 votes)

In 2007, The Sci-Fi Channel premiered "Ghost Adventures," a raw documentary in which 3 men go to Virginia City, NV and Goldfield, NV on a ghost hunting expedition.Virginia City is rife with macabre lore and reputed to be one of the most haunted cities in America. Ghost Adventures has won a Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary that was given by the New York International Film & Video Festival.

Carson City(1952)

NR
| 1h 27min | Western
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.

Nevada(1927)

NR
| 1h 8min | Western
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A once notorious gunfighter takes a respectable job on a ranch. "Nevada" is charged with protecting the ranch owner's pretty daughter, arousing the enmity of ranch foreman Clan Dillon, who is in love with the girl. The villainous foreman leaks a rumor of his rival's dark past to the sheriff, and the former outlaw is soon on the run again.

City of Bad Men(1953)

1h 21min | Western
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.

To the Last Man(1933)

NR
| 1h 14min | Romance / Love, Western
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.

Nevada(1997)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Chrysty walks through the desert carrying nothing and heading nowhere. She enters a very small town called Silver City. The local community of woman is intrigued by the sudden arrival of an attractive stranger and they find out that Chrysty left a husband and three kids behind. One of the women, McGill, calls Chrysty's husband, West to tell him where his wife is and he comes to town.

Directed by Gary Tieche - With Amy Brenneman

Barn of the Naked Dead(1974)

R
| 1h 26min | Horror
2.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks. Andre's father is still around of course, but because the old homestead is next to a nuclear test site he has been transformed into a raving homicidal mutant that Andre keeps locked up in a shed.

Barbary Coast Gent(1944)

NR
| 1h 27min | Western, Comedy
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With Wallace Beery

Mustang: The House That Joe Built(1977)

1h 22min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary about the girls of the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada.

The Stranger From Pecos(1943)

55min | Western

Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Black Jack(1927)

50min | Western

Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.

Directed by Orville O. Dull - With Buck Jones

Just a Dream(2002)

1h 37min
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.

Directed by Danny Glover
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