Highest-Rated Movies about 'Deputy Sheriff'

Unforgiven (1992), No Country for Old Men (2007), Rio Bravo (1959), The Birds (1963), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Scream (1996), Warlock (1959), The Trouble with Harry (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Deputy Sheriff movies.

#17. Valdez Is Coming (1971)

Storyline: The town constable, Bob Valdez, is forced to kill someone accused by Frank Tanner of being a murderer. Valdez asks Tanner for monetary help for the man's wife, but he is ridiculed and almost killed by Tanner's henchmen. Valdez recovers and summons up his days in the U.S. Cavalry in order to fight them. Valdez wounds one of the henchmen and sends him back to Tanner with the message, "Valdez is coming."—Robbie Burns <burnodo@usit.net>

Plot Keywords: arizona desert, arizona, arizona territory, fog, ambush, honor, chase ...

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#18. Rio Lobo (1970)

Storyline: Bent on unearthing the cynical traitor who sold information to the enemy and caused the death of a dear brother-in-arms, the battle-tested former Union cavalry officer, Colonel Cord McNally, teams up with a pair of ex-Confederates after the Civil War. Now, as honest friends, the three companions ride into Rio Lobo--a dusty town in the middle of the desert overcome by corruption--to bring to justice the one who sold McNally out; however, the town is rife with the betrayer's murderous cut-throats. Can McNally avenge his bosom buddy and clean up Rio Lobo?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: wrongful imprisonment, gash in the face, extortion, end of war, dynamite, deputy sheriff, horse and wagon ...

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#19. Fire in the Sky (1993)

Storyline: This film recreates the strange events which happened on November 5, 1975 in the town Snowflake, Arizona. Travis Walton works as a logger in the White Mountains. When he and his colleagues drive home after work, they encounter a flying saucer. Travis gets out of the truck to learn more and is struck by a beam of light from the object. For the next five days, Travis disappears without a trace and his colleagues are accused of murder. When he reappears, first he didn't remember that he was gone, but in time, the terrible memories come back...

Plot Keywords: ufo, cult film, alien, alien abduction, arizona, doctor, nurse ...

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#20. Beyond the Law (1992)

Storyline: Dan Saxon (Charlie Sheen) is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, Blood (Michael Madsen), he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?—Alfred Jingle

Plot Keywords: female nudity, male nudity, sex on first date, kissing while having sex, sex, modern west, neo western ...

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#22. Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Storyline: Arizona Deputy Sheriff Coogan (Clint Eastwood) is sent to New York City to collect James Ringerman (Don Stroud), a prisoner who escaped from custody in Arizona. Everyone in New York City assumes Coogan is from Texas, much to his annoyance. To add to Coogan's problems, the prisoner is in Bellevue after taking a trip on LSD while In custody, so he decides to cut a few corners. In the process, the prisoner escapes, steals Coogan's gun, and Coogan is ordered home. Too proud to return home empty-handed, Coogan sets out into the big city to track down and recapture his prisoner.

Plot Keywords: arizona, redhead, two in a bathtub, violence, gangster, love interest, seduction ...

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#23. Doc Hollywood (1991)

Storyline: Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A., where he is interviewing for a high-paying job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hours of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence, get his car fixed and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave?

Plot Keywords: doctor, skinny dipping, car accident, community service, small town, hospital, letter read aloud ...

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#24. Red State (2011)

Storyline: The teenager Jarod invites his best friends Travis and Billy-Ray to have a foursome with a thirty-eight year-old woman. While driving to meet the woman, Travis hit a car parked on the road. When they meet the woman, she gives spiked beer to them and they pass out. When the three friends wake up, they find that they are trapped in the fundamentalist Five Points Trinity Church of the infamous Pastor Abin Cooper and that they will be killed. Meanwhile the church is under siege by ATF agents led by Agent Joseph Keenan that have been ordered to destroy the terrorist cell. Will the teenagers be saved by the agents of the law enforcement agency?

Plot Keywords: drugged drink, christianity, homophobia, torture, kidnapping, cult leader, cult ...

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#25. The Rapture (1991)

Storyline: This is the story of a young woman (who lives in Los Angeles) with a very boring job. At night however, she and a male partner cruise the bars as swingers. After a time, she begins to believe that a conspiracy exists and decides that she must become a born-again Christian. The movie presents an interesting view of how even the most unlikely person might become born-again.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>

Plot Keywords: one male two females threesome, male rear nudity, child murder, murderess, women's prison, bare chested male, hairy chest ...

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#26. Braven (2018)

Storyline: Joe Braven is a logging company owner who lives with his family in Canada. Joe's father, Linden, suffering from dementia, mistakes a woman in a bar for his wife, prompting a barroom brawl that lands Linden in the hospital. The family decides to take a break at their secluded log cabin, where they run into trouble from a drug dealer who wants to use Joe's business as a front for his cocaine operation.

Plot Keywords: archery, bear trap, hiding in a closet, knife fight, rifle, shot with an arrow, death of father ...

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#27. Knockaround Guys (2001)

Storyline: The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don't go as planned though...

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, corrupt cop, bag of money, uncle nephew relationship, redneck, new york city, deputy sheriff ...

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#28. The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Storyline: Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?

Plot Keywords: bare butt, neo noir, nude photograph, female rear nudity, cigarette smoking, gas station attendant, gas station ...

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#29. The Hitcher (2007)

Storyline: While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim succeeds to throw him out of the car on the road. On the next morning, the young couple sees John in another car with a family, and while trying to advise the driver that the man is dangerous, they have an accident. While walking on the road, they find the whole family stabbed in the car, and John sees that the driver is still alive. He drives to a restaurant seeking for help, but the police blame Jim and Grace to the murder and send them to the police station. However, John kills the policemen and pursues the couple, playing a tragic and violent mouse and cat game with Grace and Jim.

Plot Keywords: mini skirt, jailbreak, interrogation, handcuffs, gore, gas station, dismemberment ...

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#30. Noose for a Gunman (1960)

Storyline: Case Britton reluctantly returns to his home town where he had killed two men. The citizens are none too enthused about his return, but Marshal Tom Evans becomes more friendly when Cases explains that he has returned to warn the town that bandit Jack Cantrell intends to rob the stage and express office. Case's sweetheart Della Haines is a passenger on the stage. Case and the Marshal decide on a defense play.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: newlywed, lawman, gunfight, gunfire, gold, stagecoach driver, u.s. marshal ...

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