Shot in the Heart (2001), Any One of Us (2019), The World's Fastest Indian (2005), Family Fundamentals (2002), GasLand (2010), Il grande silenzio (1968), 127 Hours (2010), The Executioner's Song (1982) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Utah movies.
Storyline: After a sudden outbreak of diphtheria, the authorities dispatch an express train carrying reinforcement soldiers and medical supplies through the frozen West across the Rocky Mountains to aid the remote garrison of Fort Humboldt. Along with the troops, there are also aboard Governor Richard Fairchild; the outpost commander's daughter, Marica; the squad's captain, Major Claremont; the U.S. Marshal, Pearce, and his mysterious prisoner, John Deakin. Indeed, this was supposed to be a routine operation; however, before long, in this confined but well-guarded place, missing officers and unexplained deaths start to shroud the mission with mystery and suspicion, as an unstoppable unknown killer is picking them off one by one. Who is the murderer in their midst?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: outlaw, marshal, governor, mistress, federal agent, soldier, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A southern spy during the Civil War, he must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is complicated by the two sisters, the Indians and a firing squad.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: spy, daughter, love interest, mine owner, general, abraham lincoln, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Selby arrives as the new ranch owner, he is assumed to be just another cowboy attracted to Ann Hepburn so he takes a job as a dude cowhand. He learns cattle are being rustled and he suspects the boss Sam Hepburn. But Hepburn suspects the foreman Hyslip and when he catches him with the goods, Hyslip shoots him. Hyslip then blames the new dude, and sends his men out to kill him.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, love interest, ranch hand, heir, rancher, wealthy man, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the true story of Jill Kinmont. In 1955, eighteen-year-old Jill is a truly talented, gifted skier and a shoo-in for the 1956 Winter Olympics. But Jill comes close to losing everything when she takes a near fatal fall off a mountain during the last race of the season. Paralyzed from the shoulders down, Jill now has to climb another kind of mountain-working her way up from total helplessness to leading a fulfilling life. With the help of family, friends, and an extraordinary man, Jill begins the quest up that mountain.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: skier, pilot, fiancé, mother, doctor, friend, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Emily Lindstrom, 14, is an aspiring concert violinist; she's spending the summer practicing for a big audition while her girlfriends are at camp. She's also got a thriving neighborhood business: for 50 cents, she'll keep your secret. Her mother is very pregnant, and her parents seem more concerned about the new baby than anything Emily cares about. A new family moves in next door; their son, Philip, 12, becomes Emily's friend. Eventually, the weight of Emily's secrets - her own, the ones she's keeping professionally, and a secret Philip tells her, send her life temporarily crashing down.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: violinist, girl, neighbor, best friend, love interest, mother, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: fool, pretty woman, father, business owner, landlord, hysterical, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Broken Arrow" is the term used to describe a nuclear device that has been lost. In this movie, two nuclear missiles are stolen by rogue US pilot Deakins, but hot on his trail is his co-pilot Hale and a Park Ranger, Terry. The action takes place in Utah's canyon country; a high stakes game of cat and mouse.
Plot Keywords: air force pilot, rookie, traitor, terrorist, park ranger, beautiful woman, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When ranch foreman Roy learns the new ranch owner Dorothy Bryant and her friends are arriving, he directs them to Gabby's rundown ranch. He figures they will be discouraged and return East. But the plan backfires when Dorothy, thinking her ranch worthless, sells the real ranch at a fraction of it's value.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: singer, rancher, coworker, cattleman, showgirl, sheriff, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: serial killer, girlfriend, victim, chilling, shocking, tense, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1993, a search for extraterrestrial life, a transmission's recieved, detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.
Plot Keywords: scientist, government agent, alien, shapeshifter, psychic, assassin, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Near a small Utah town, visiting lawyer David Hewson finds the slashed body of party girl Marcia Morgan, his fellow tenant at Parry Lodge. Sheriff Jess Holmes considers everyone at the motel a suspect, even owner Edmund Parry, a woman hater who is quadriplegic...or is he? While Holmes investigates and the suspects try to hide mutual fears, the killer strikes again...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: sheriff, lawyer, bombshell, paraplegic, victim, secretary, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mother and daughter, Beth and Grace, find a bedraggled dog on the side of the freeway. Taking it home and rescuing it, the dog helps Grace meet a man. But Beth's husband, Joseph, hates the dog and just might cause even more friction in their marriage. While at their remote cabin for a weekend wedding with family, Joseph loses the dog and Beth isn't going home until they find it. With help from their nephew, Joseph's sister, her new boyfriend, and their psychic gypsy maid, the family search high and low for the missing dog and in the process find that they also need to mend their own relationships.—napierslogs
Plot Keywords: surgeon, wife, daughter, veterinarian, dog, family member, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the outlaw. Slug's men chase them to Ricard's ranch which they burn. After Grady saves the Ricard's from their burning house, Betty Lou saves Grady from hanging at the hands of the masked vigilantes. Grady recognizes the voice of Raton among the vigilantes and now knows who to go after.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: cowboy, stranger, sheriff, rancher, old friend, father, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sheriff Steve Upton (Randolph Scott) is a devoted lawman who works tirelessly to keep order in his small town, nestled within the Utah territory. So, when Cheyenne Rogers (Glenn Ford), an old friend with a criminal past, rolls into town, Upton is immediately on edge. Cheyenne assures his pal that all that's behind him now. But when the town bank is robbed, Cheyenne becomes the locals' number one suspect. He'll have to prove his innocence to save himself and his friend's reputation.
Plot Keywords: sheriff, ex-convict, bank robber, desperado, banker, judge, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim West is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses S Grant teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington, D.C. to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.
Plot Keywords: inventor, ulysses s. grant, lawman, villain, love interest, hero, playful ...
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