Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Lone Survivor (2013), Death Hunt (1981), Me and My Gal (1932), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), Dirty Little Billy (1972), Tango & Cash (1989), In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Shoot-out movies.
Storyline: In Mexico, the wealthy father of a pregnant young woman offers $1million for the head of the man who impregnated her. A pair of bounty hunters meet a local piano man in their search. The piano player does a little investigating, and finds out that his girlfriend knows of Garcia's death and where his body is. Thinking he can make easy money, they set off on this goal, but instead, the trip brings untold misery.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: mob boss, bounty hunter, bar owner, prostitute, biker, american, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
Plot Keywords: navy seal, soldier, afghan, terrorist, warlord, survivor, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Canada 1931: The unsociable trapper Johnson lives for himself in the ice-cold mountains near the Yukon river. During a visit in the town he witnesses a dog-fight. He interrupts the game and buys one of the dogs - almost dead already - for $200 against the owner's will. When the owner Hasel complains to Mountie Sergeant Millen, he refuses to take action. But then the loathing breeder and his friends accuse Johnson of murder. So Millen, although sympathetic, has to try to take him under arrest - but Johnson defends his freedom in every way possible.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: fur trapper, mountie, sergeant, mistress, deputy, dog owner, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
Plot Keywords: detective, gangster, ex-girlfriend, sister, henchman, editor, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Herzfeld deftly welds together a multitude of subplots-- a loser hitman and a cool assassin involved in an insurance scam; a washed-up director, turned suicidal, if only he had someone to care for his beloved dog; a snooty art dealer, wracked by kidney stones, cared for by his devoted assistant; a grungy deranged vice cop, now partnered with a fresh-faced rookie; and two beautiful and jealous women entangled in their deadly scheme--into a spoof of the crime thriller genre.
Plot Keywords: assassin, partner, wife, assistant, rookie cop, art dealer, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After his family moves to a frontier town in Kansas, city-bred teenager Billy Bonney (Michael J. Pollard) finds he has no appetite for farming. He runs away, taking up with local outlaw Goldie (Richard Evans), who operates a saloon in town with the help of a prostitute named Berle (Lee Purcell). The three form a gang of sorts, menacing the locals until the townsfolk collectively decide to drive the outlaws away. Bonney escapes and begins the life of crime that makes him famous as Billy the Kid.
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, prostitute, stepfather, mayor, unrestrained, bleak, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The polar opposites, Ray Tango, a suave and sophisticated police officer, and Gabe Cash, his overzealous long-haired partner, are a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo who work tirelessly to bring down their arch-nemesis, the ruthless drug lord, Yves Perret. However, when Perret manages to incriminate the pesty team with falsified evidence, Ray and Gabe will soon end up in a maximum-security prison, where an almost endless parade of inmates previously incarcerated by them, are waiting for their captors impatiently. Now, more than ever, Tango and Cash need to put their differences aside to come up quickly with a good plan, not only to escape the jail's walls but also to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all. Of course, that's easier said than done.
Plot Keywords: cop, partner, warden, exotic dancer, drug lord, criminal, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story, this tense crime drama follows veteran FBI agent Ben Grogan (Ronny Cox) as he leads a team that is desperately trying to track down the criminals responsible for a series of murders and robberies before more blood is shed. Eventually, the agents get closer to the suspects, Bill Matix (Michael Gross) and Mike Platt (David Soul), but the ruthless fugitives aren't going to be taken without a fight, leading to a violent shootout.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, criminal, fugitive, killer, gritty, tense, florida ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed ...
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, mayor, young man, woman, reverend, thrilling, gory ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: mercenary, mountain man, wife, townsperson, gritty, raw, border town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: texas ranger, major, sundance kid, brother, girl, outlaw, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gunslinger rides into the town of Purgatory and tells the townspeople he's the town tamer they've been expecting, knowing full well that he shot the man back in the desert. He agrees to their $500 fee, payable when the job is complete to the widow of another man he killed, and sets about freeing the town from it's wheelchair-bound criminal boss, who hires three killers in succession to rid the town of its new lawman.—David Bassler
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, townspeople, lawman, outlaw, widow, loner, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tough guy Thomas Beckett is a US Marine working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller, who's more of an office-type. Together they plan to seek out an important rebel leader, whilst avoiding a rogue marksman who frequents this part of the jungle.
Plot Keywords: sniper, sharpshooter, rebel, drug lord, cia agent, partner, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. New Mexico Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a ...
Plot Keywords: outlaw, cattle baron, alien, cowboy, bartender, priest, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, government agent, bandit, brother, gang leader, gambler, gutsy ...
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