The Last Picture Show (1971), The Revenant (2015), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Hell or High Water (2016), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), True Grit (1969), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), The Westerner (1940) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Texan movies.
Storyline: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Houston Socialite Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gustav "Gust" Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.
Plot Keywords: afghanistan, arms dealer, based on true story, based on novel, female nudity, christmas party, stripper ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find the new gang leader Jack Burns unwilling to relinquish his control. When Sarto puts together a rival gang he gets wounded and seeks refuge in a monastery. He is gradually transformed by the simple, sincere brothers and, after one last gangland appearance, decides he has found class at last in the monastery.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: gunshot wound, betrayal, paris france, art deco, bribery, cattleman, class differences ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frank Taylor joins the "pro-American" Black Legion when he loses his chance at foremanship to a foreign-born man. The organization is a sort of Ku Klux Klan in the industrial sphere. Frank has troubles with his wife over this and causes serious trouble when he tells all to his best friend Ed Jackson.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: motorcycle cop, polish american, foreman, man carries a woman, inspired by true events, prison sentence, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.—Rita Richardson <RRichar790@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, jail, jail break, texan, indian attack, pet dog, man's best friend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are drugged out geniuses with lots of ideas but they can never seem to get their act together. But when they come up with the idea to create a porn site - and charge for it (the first ever site to do so), their idea may be too lucrative for them to handle. Straight-laced business man, Jack Harris, is brought in to team up with them and turn their profitable idea into a legit business. Making money in the pornography industry is pretty easy, but staying true to yourself when surrounded by that much wealth, luxury, sex, crime and temptations, is much harder.
Plot Keywords: bare breasts, female nudity, topless female nudity, female rear nudity, stripper, strip club, porn industry ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers. In particular, he must handle the difficulties created by a reckless hot-shot pilot named Woody Jason, who not only wants to fight a one-man war but to waltz off with Gordon's girlfriend.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: american abroad, romantic rivalry, world war two, aerial combat, fighter plane, male bonding, tough guy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline in Newark. Dizzy is flirting with the girlfriend of a younger pilot and, due to this, he feigns illness to get Texas to take his flight assignment to Cleveland. Returning from Cleveland to Newark, Texas' plane crashes attempting to land on the airfield under extremely bad weather circumstances and he dies from this accident. Dizzy feels guilty for his friend's death and takes the next flight to Cleveland under even worse circumstances, testing a new anti-ice device on the plane.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: biplane, airplane, pilot, lightning, limousine, lobster, loudspeaker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A final live variety show broadcast via radio becomes a metaphor for the natural order of life. A concept and script by Garrison Keilor uses every natural and technical element of working with a tight and close ensemble producing a weekly show to sooth us and guide us through the natural but difficult transitions of aging, becoming less relevant and then dying as new, young life develops and strengthens during our final "performances." This is a rare film for it's remarkable cast and crew and one wonders how the great Robert Altman was able to gather them all at the same place and time to shoot this film.
Plot Keywords: singing, entertainer, radio show, country music, backstage, radio, recording ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is. Not preachy.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: japanese american, imperative in title, u.s. army, steel helmet, world war two, shot in the arm, shot in the leg ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Melton, Chadwick and O'Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. Only two show up, James and Jean, they fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors, until the latter are killed in a plane crash and come back to their old home as ghosts. In the coming months, true love encounters some rough spots. Can ghostly O'Brien help the young folks?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: christmas, love triangle, actress, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soldier, crying woman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1869, Texas has not yet been readmitted to the Union, and carpetbaggers have taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader whom he knows is innocent of the murder for which he is charged. But in trying to prove his innocence, Porter now finds he is a wanted man.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gun, henchman, horse, informer, killer, lynch mob, lynching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Marines attack a strongly held enemy island in the Pacific. We follow them from the beach to a Japanese rocket site through enemy infested jungle as their ex-school teacher leader is transformed into a battle veteran and his squad becomes a tight fighting unit.—Derek Picken <dpicken@email.msn.com>
Plot Keywords: u.s. soldier, u.s. marine corps, american soldier, ensemble cast, u.s. military, three word title, death ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Texas, the citizens are suffering from the brutality of the State Police who have replaced the disbanded Rangers. When a policeman kills a rancher, Gene then kills him in self defence. Now wanted for murder by the Police, Gene sets out to get evidence that will put an end to the Police and bring back the Texas Rangers.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, kidnapping, stagecoach, stagecoach driver, rescue, song, singer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) returns from Paris, France to her childhood home in New Orleans, Louisiana to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry a rich man to attain the status and respectability her mother never had, but falls for Texas gambler Colonel Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper) instead. When he leaves New Orleans for the horse racing season at Saratoga Springs, she follows him there to seek her fortune - or someone else's.—Joyce Bradsher <joyceable@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, new orleans louisiana, opera, passion, poker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale (Jean Arthur), in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17-day all-expenses-paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isn't all she thought it would be...until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat. Duke Hudkins (John Wayne), by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert...and a romance is born.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: beer drinking, beer, rival, hero, date, tough guy, fistfight ...
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