Highest-Rated Movies about 'Apache'

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966), The Wild Bunch (1969), My Darling Clementine (1946), Predator (1987), Hombre (1967), The Man From Laramie (1955), Rio Grande (1950), Ulzana's Raid (1972) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Apache movies.

#16. Apache (1954)

Storyline: Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. Instead, he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: arizona territory, native american, indian war, apache territory, arizona, apache indian, army ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#17. The Quick and the Dead (1995)

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: female gunfighter, death, saloon, murder, torture, bar shootout, shot in the back ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#19. A Distant Trumpet (1964)

Storyline: Lt. Hazard, fresh out of West Point, arrives in Arizona Territory at hot, dusty, Fort Delivery. Appalled by the lax discipline of its troops, he restricts their privileges and subjects them to arduous drills. At the same time, he finds himself falling in love with Kitty, the wife of his commanding officer. This romance is complicated when his fiancee from Back East decides to pay a visit. Troubles with the local Indians, however, soon force Hazard to concentrate on his military duties which sometimes conflict with his sympathy for the Indians' cause.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis

Plot Keywords: trumpet, indian war, three word title, chopping wood, army, racism, racial slur ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#20. The Deserter (1971)

Storyline: Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in Mexico, Kaleb is given amnesty in exchange for leading a small band of especially trained soldiers to wipe out the Indian stronghold.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: arizona territory, apache indian, tomahawk, cannon, bugle, campfire, knife throwing ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#22. The Deadly Companions (1962)

Storyline: The Civil War Yankee sergeant Yellowleg saves the cheater Turkey from hanging after a card game, and together with Turk's gunslinger buddy Billy Keplinger, they ride together to Gila City with the intention of heisting a bank. When other bandits rob a store, Yellowleg shoots at the outlaws and accidentally kills the son of the cabaret dancer Kit Tilden and the grieving woman decides to bury her son in the town of Siringo in Apache country where her husband is buried. Yellowleg Enlists Billy and Turkey to escort Kitty and the coffin through the dangerous land.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: apache territory, based on novel, death of child, revenge, little boy, grief, native american ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#23. Fort Defiance (1951)

Storyline: It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: fort, post civil war, ranch, cattle, native american, gunslinger, shot to death ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#24. Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

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: desert, cowboy, arizona, one man army, alien invasion, stabbed to death, stabbed in the back ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#25. El Condor (1970)

Storyline: Luke, an escaped convict, and Jaroo, a loner gold prospector, team up with a band of Apache Indians in 19th century Mexico to capture a large, heavily armed fortress for the millions -- or billions -- of dollars in gold that are rumored to be stored within.—Brian C. Madsen <bcmmovies@earthlink.net>

Plot Keywords: apache, knife, spaghetti western, cowboys and indians, main character dies, villain played by lead actor, wrestling ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#26. Southwest Passage (1954)

Storyline: Edward Beale is in charge of finding a shorter trail across the American desert and to also test the practicality of using camels in the west in this 3-D western. (An actual test once conducted in the Big Bend area of Texas.) Clint MacDoanld, a bank robber one jump ahead of a posse, joins the caravan by posing as a doctor. His sweetheart, Lilly, also comes along and signs on. There is a whole lot of footage of the grueling trek across the desert, but it begins to move when mule-skinner Matt Carroll becomes aware of MacDonald's true profession and he wants the gold from the bank robbery. The Apaches have shied away from attacking the train, because of their fear of the camels, but a camel dies and the jig is up as they lose their fear and here they come.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: 3 dimensional, 3d, apache territory, camel, bank robbery, cavalry, native american attack ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#27. Bad Lands (1939)

Storyline: A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy Sweet, Bob Mulford, Curley Tom, Eaton, Garth and an old prospector named Cluff. Apache Jack leads them into Indian country where they come across an oasis in a gully wash. They not only find water but also a natural of vein of silver. Sheriff Cummings prevents any of them from returning to town to file a mining claim. The next morning, Eaton is missing and all of the horses are gone. Then Cluff is killed in an ambush. The posse is trapped by an unseen enemy.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: 1870s, thirst, u.s. army, remake, american indian, smoke signal, trap ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#28. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

Storyline: The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religeous zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne; but the love of her family and the power of psychic Tangina once again unite, along with an elderly native American, to fight for her life.

Plot Keywords: supernatural horror, possession, sequel, ritual, spiritualism, haunting, alternate dimension ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#29. Fort Bowie (1958)

Storyline: Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: laundry, covered wagon, kiss, canteen, murder, white flag, u.s. cavalry ...

Movie Details Click Here!

#30. Desert Patrol (1938)

Storyline: When a Ranger is killed, the Captain sends Dave Austin to investigate. Posing as an outlaw, he meets Apache Joe who he realizes was the killer. He also meets Dan Drury, the man that transfers money between Apache Joe and his boss. He takes a job on Drury's ranch but is in trouble when Drury's sister Jean reveals his true identity.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: murder, deception, escape, gang leader, gang member, gang, held at gunpoint ...

Movie Details Click Here!