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[2009]
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Jack Bishop lives the life of every man's dream. He has a beautiful wife, a happy, healthy daughter, the career he always wanted, and a loving home in a peaceful Texas border town. It is no coincidence that Jack's life seems perfect. But when his 11-year-old daughter is kidnapped, he will hunt her abductors and unleash his own tortured soul, into a Mexican hell of barrios and bordellos controlled by the mysterious religion of La Santa Muerte. Jack...
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Mac and Dal, two brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War, return home to Texas to discover that their sisters and Dal's sweetheart have been kidnapped by rampaging Rebel guerrillas refusing to accept the defeat of the Confederacy. With the help of their notorious uncle, Mac and Dal must rescue the women before they can be sold into a Mexican brothel.
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IF AT FIRST YOU DONT SUCCEEDIts been seven years since the Seattle Strangler terrorized the city. His victims were all young, pretty, their lifeless bodies found wrapped in a home-sewn white dress. But there was one who miraculously escaped death, just before the Strangler disappeared . . . KILLLara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas...
5) Standoff
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TV reporter Tiel McCoy becomes involved in a hostage situation when two young runaways attempt a convenience store robbery. McCoy soon learns why the two young lovers fear the wealthy father of one of them even more than the police.
6) Fargo
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A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
7) The Imposter
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In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Europe. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child's return?
9) Hard kill
Pub. Date
[2020]
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When a wealthy tech CEO hires mercenaries to protect his valuables, a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter in order to get them
12) Palo pinto gold
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c2009
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"Set in the Hill Country of Texas during the late 1880s, the Texas Rangers find themselves up against one of their own. Shane Stocksteal turns from Ranger to outlaw by committing murder and fraud to reach his dream of political power. In the process Captain John MacIntyre is killed and his daughter, Kayla, is kidnapped and beaten. Jake Landers, a farmer with aspirations of being something more, gets involved and tries to help free Kayla and bring...
13) Trade
Pub. Date
[2008]
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When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally.
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2015.
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Vengeance Valley: This Westernized depiction of "Cain and Abel" is the gripping story of the complicated and volatile relationship between brothers.
Nothing too good for a cowboy: A group of young adults struggle to run the biggest cattle ranch in the world amidst World War II.
Cowboys don't cry: A father and son struggle to make ends meet on the rodeo circuit.
Against a crooked sky: A young boy journeys into a harsh, unforgiving land to save his...
15) About Scout
Pub. Date
[2016]
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When two opposites meet and decides to take a journey across Texas, a convenience store robbery goes wrong and now they are on the run.
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©2022
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Big Jake: John Wayne is an aging Texas cattleman who's outlived his time. Now he must quickly swing into action and reconnect with his estranged family after outlaws kidnap his grandson "Little Jake" and wound his son.
Donovan's Reef: The final collaboration between acclaimed director John Ford and screen legend John Wayne is a boisterous, rowdy South Seas escapade featuring Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Cesar Romero and a sarong-clad Dorothy Lamour.
El...
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©2022.
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Sicario : After rising through the ranks of her male-dominated profession, idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) receives a top assignment. Recruited by mysterious government official Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) Kate joins a task force for the escalating war against drugs. Led by the intense and shadowy Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), the team travels back-and-forth across the U.S.-Mexican border, using one cartel boss (Bernardo Saracino) to...
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[2009]
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In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In The searchers, a Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughter.
In Fort Apache, a calvary officer whose by-the-book tactics and ignorance of the western frontier cause him to lead his men into a fatal Apache ambush.
In Rio Bravo, a Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
In The cowboys, a rancher is deserted by his regular cattle drivers...