Filming Location Matching "Janss Conejo Ranch, Thousand Oaks, California, USA" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Bonanza (1959–1973)
TV-PG | 49 min | Western
The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.
Stars: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 9,415
2. The Rifleman (1958–1963)
TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western
The adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.
Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Joe Benson
Votes: 4,245
3. Spartacus (1960)
PG-13 | 197 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton
Votes: 133,788 | Gross: $30.00M
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western
A senator returns to a western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
Votes: 75,414
5. Destry (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A dishonest mayor and powerful criminal dominate a small western town. But when the town's sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Tom Destry, son of a famed gunman, is called in to put an end to the corruption.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,454
6. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Passed | 129 min | Drama
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 92,216 | Gross: $0.06M
7. Man Without a Star (1955)
Approved | 89 min | Western
Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell
Votes: 3,433
8. Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
Approved | 88 min | Romance, Western
Fugitive bank robber Joe Maybe steals the identity of a marshal and rides into a town whose judge asks Joe to act as town marshal but an old flame almost betrays his real identity forcing Joe to claim she's his wife.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Henry Silva
Votes: 1,095
9. The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Approved | 120 min | Adventure, Romance, War
In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Judson Pratt
Votes: 10,492 | Gross: $1.75M
10. Wuthering Heights (1939)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
Votes: 18,095 | Gross: $0.76M
11. Flaming Star (1960)
Approved | 101 min | Western
When fighting breaks out between two cultures in West Texas, the mixed-blood Pacer tries to act as a peacemaker, but the "flaming star of death" pulls him irrevocably into the deadly violence.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Elvis Presley, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Dolores del Rio
Votes: 3,439 | Gross: $1.96M
12. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo
Votes: 5,716
13. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 10,497
14. Shenandoah (1965)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War, Western
During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral, but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne
Votes: 8,796
15. Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Romance, Western
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, John Dehner, James Best
Votes: 640
16. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried
Votes: 4,287
17. Man of the West (1958)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 7,903
18. Dodge City (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Western
A Texas cattle agent witnesses first hand, the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 5,285
19. The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Western
Former Dalton gang member Bill Doolin puts together his own bank-robbing gang but federal Marshals are closing in.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Randolph Scott, George Macready, Louise Allbritton, John Ireland
Votes: 512
20. Lassie Come Home (1943)
Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 5,467
21. Stagecoach West (1960–1961)
60 min | Western
Luke Perry and Simon Kane run a stagecoach line in the Old West, where they come across a wide variety of killers, robbers, and ladies in distress. They are accompanied by Simon's young son David.
Stars: Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer, Robert Bray, James Burke
Votes: 144
22. Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, War, Western
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Director: William Hale | Stars: James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Brenda Scott, Don Stroud
Votes: 930
23. Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards
Votes: 617
24. Cimarron (1960)
Approved | 147 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier adventurer, his wife and family and their friends.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Charles Walters | Stars: Glenn Ford, Maria Schell, Anne Baxter, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 3,024
25. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Marshal Tyrone and the Silver Kid form an uneasy alliance against a gang of claim jumpers.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot
Votes: 1,666
26. Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
M | 94 min | Western
A Texas town's council fires the town's old-fashioned marshal who refuses to resign, thus leading to violence from both sides.
Directors: Don Siegel, Robert Totten | Stars: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu
Votes: 1,319
27. The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
M/PG | 91 min | Comedy, Western
An aging lawman and an aging outlaw join forces when their respective positions in society are usurped by a younger, but incompetent Marshal, and a younger, but vicious gang leader.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine
Votes: 1,341 | Gross: $0.11M
28. Apache Rifles (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Western
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 664
29. Advance to the Rear (1964)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, War, Western
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent to the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up to.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas, Jim Backus
Votes: 788
30. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Family, Western
The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery
Votes: 358
31. The Command (1954)
Approved | 94 min | Romance, Western
An army doctor, with no combat experience, is forced to take command of a cavalry troop escorting a wagon train through hostile Indian country when the unit's commanding officer dies.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Guy Madison, Joan Weldon, James Whitmore, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 542
32. The Ballad of Josie (1967)
TV-PG | 102 min | Comedy, Western
A widow stirs things up in a western town by raising sheep instead of cattle, and organizing the local women to demonstrate for women's suffrage.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, Andy Devine
Votes: 985 | Gross: $1.32M
33. The Lawless Breed (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Biography, Western
After being released from prison, former gun-fighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire
Votes: 1,249
34. Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Western
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige
Votes: 1,590
35. Bad Boy (1949)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
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Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Audie Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt, James Gleason
Votes: 360
36. Red Sundown (1956)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A gunfighter takes a deputy sheriff job in a town caught in a feud between a powerful rancher and small farmers.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Robert Middleton
Votes: 651
37. Tall Man Riding (1955)
Approved | 83 min | Western
Larry Madden returns to Little River after several years, still vowing to avenge himself against the humiliating whipping he received at the hands of cattle baron Tucker Ordway.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Peggie Castle, William Ching
Votes: 806
38. The Ride Back (1957)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Western
A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.
Directors: Allen H. Miner, Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan
Votes: 840
39. Taggart (1964)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Kent Taggart's family, with their cattle stampeded, are killed by those who started it. In a fair gunfight, he kills the man's son responsible for it all and when he runs, a warrant is issued and a price put on his head.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Dick Foran, Elsa Cárdenas
Votes: 336
40. The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959)
79 min | Drama, Western
Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Michael Landon, Jo Morrow, Jack Hogan, Richard Rust
Votes: 215
41. Rebel in Town (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Western
After the Civil War, in a Yankee town five Confederates find trouble when one of them accidentally shoots a local young boy.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper
Votes: 364
42. The Bull of the West (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Western
Two episodes of the TV series "The Virginian" edited together: "Duel at Shiloh" (2 Jan. 1963) and "Nobility of Kings" (10 Nov. 1965).
Directors: Jerry Hopper, Paul Stanley | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Charles Bronson, Brian Keith, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 319
43. The Plainsman (1966)
Approved | 92 min | Western
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abby Dalton, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 225
44. The First Texan (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Biography, Drama, History
Eastern lawyer Sam Houston moves to Texas. At the request of President Jackson, he leads the Texan independence movement and wins the decisive battle against the Mexican army to gain Texas independence.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr, Jeff Morrow, Wallace Ford
Votes: 472
45. Jump Into Hell (1955)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, War
Four young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Kurt Kasznar, Arnold Moss, Peter van Eyck
Votes: 167
46. The Young Country (1970 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Western
An adventurous young gambler searches for the owner of a mysterious fortune.
Director: Roy Huggins | Stars: Walter Brennan, Joan Hackett, Wally Cox, Pete Duel
Votes: 75
47. He Rides Tall (1964)
Approved | 84 min | Western
A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Tony Young, Dan Duryea, Jo Morrow, Madlyn Rhue
Votes: 145
48. Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
Passed | 82 min | Western
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 156
49. The Gay Ranchero (1948)
Passed | 72 min | Western
Crooks try to take over an airport by sabotaging the planes. Sheriff Roy catches them. Songs: title song, "Granada, " "You Belong to my Heart, " and "Wait'll I get my Sunshine in the Moonlight."
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Tito Guízar, Jane Frazee
Votes: 151
50. Wild Heritage (1958)
Passed | 78 min | Western
Two westward-bound families join forces to battle gunslingers.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Maureen O'Sullivan, Rod McKuen, Casey Tibbs
Votes: 161