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Leadbelly
Texas The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sYou can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly! — The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.
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Drive-In
TexasThe adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
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A Small Town in Texas
TexasAll Poke wanted was to get his girl and get out. All the Sheriff wanted... was to get Poke. — A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
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Pony Express Rider
Texas The 19th CenturyA young Texan pursues his father's killers and faces the ultimate challenge. — A young Texas Man who saw his father get killed by a group of bandits, decides years later to go to work for the Pony Express. But he is not just working around the country to deliver mail, he is actually finding the bandits who murdered his father.
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Rollerball
Texas The 2010sIn the not-too-distant future, wars will no longer exist. But there WILL be...The Game — In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Race With the Devil
TexasIf you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell! — Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
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Posse
Texas The 1890s"Posse" begins like most Westerns. It ends like none of them. It will knock you off your horse. — A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
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The Deadly Tower
Texas The 1960sThe real-life story of Charles Whitman's deadly shooting spree at the University of Texas is retold. In August 1966, after killing his wife and mother, Whitman climbed to the top of the school's tower and opened fire on passers-by, killing 13 and wounding many others.
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The Sugarland Express
Texas The 1960sEvery cop in the state was after her. Everybody else was behind her. — Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Texas The 1970sWho will survive and what will be left of them? — When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
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Big Bad Mama
Texas The 1930sHot Lead - Hot Cars - Hot Damn! — Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
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Sugar Hill
TexasMeet Sugar Hill and her zombie hitmen... The mafia has never met anything like them! — When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.
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Don't Hang Up
TexasAfter 13 years she returned home... To a house of terror. — A dutiful grand-daughter goes home to take care of her elderly grandmother. Once there, she finds herself trapped inside the house with a homicidal maniac.
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Lovin' Molly
Texas The 1960s The 1940s The 1920sMolly Taylor: In love with love… and who knew didn't matter. — Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
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Houston, We've Got a Problem
Texas The 1970sStory of how NASA controllers fought to return the Apollo 13 space capsule to Earth after an on-board explosion damaged the craft.
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De sangre chicana
TexasYoung Mexican-American studies for his MD and triumphs as a professional wrestler while his brother and sister stagnate in the barrio.
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The Lord of the Universe
Texas The 1970s"If this guy is god, then this is the God the United States of America deserves." — He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Huston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies and anything was possible so thousands flocked to his gathering. Follow him from his mansion in New York to the limousines in Houston, listen to his followers and watch the spectacle unfold just as TVTV did in this Alfred I. du Pont award wining documentary.
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Cahill U.S. Marshal
TexasA lawman and his sons face the ultimate test of courage. — J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
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Webster and Laura took everything they wanted ... each other ... and a diamond worth $6.000.000. — A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
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Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Texas The 1830sThe man who hears with his eyes and speaks with his gun... — In this unusual spaghetti western departure for exploitation filmmaker Paolo Cavara (La Tarantola dal Ventre Nero), two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears (Franco Nero) and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith (Anthony Quinn) go after a Mexican general (Franco Graziosi) under orders from Germany to agitate the populace. The film looks terrific, thanks to cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli (Once Upon a Time in America), but is often lacking in the story department. Perhaps part of the blame belongs to co-screenwriter Harry Essex, fresh off the dreadful sci-fi flop Octaman (1971). Pamela Tiffin appears as a prostitute, and the film co-stars Tom Felleghy and Renato Romano.
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Kid Blue
TexasA funny thing happened to Kid Blue on the way to the robbery. — Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
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The Getaway
TexasIt takes two to make it … The big two. — A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Texas The 1890sIf this story ain't true... it shoulda been! — Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
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Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid. They learned a trade in the army. Killing.
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Enter the Devil
TexasThen It's Too Late For Exorcism! — Enter the Devil is a great American-made B horror movie. People are disappearing in the wastelands. An occult researcher discovers that a devil-worshipping cult is responsible. Her inquiries lead her into great danger. Who can she trust? Very well acted by a cast of unknowns. Gritty and atmospheric.
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Big Jake
Texas The 1900sThey wanted gold. They gave them lead instead! — An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
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The Last Picture Show
Texas The 1950sAnarene, Texas, 1951. Nothing much has changed… — High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures. Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
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Brewster McCloud
TexasTHIS MAY BE OVER YOUR HEAD. — Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
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Gas-s-s-s!
TexasInvite a few friends over to watch the end of the world! — A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
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Norwood
Texas The 1970sIts 'Goodtime Glen' and 'Super Joe'... doin' what they do best! — A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
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My Sweet Charlie
TexasA pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.
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The Wild Bunch
Texas The 1910sUnchanged men in a changing land — Aging outlaw, Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.
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Easy Rider
Texas The 1960sA man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere... — A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
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Midnight Cowboy
TexasFor those who have never seen it and those who have never forgotten it. — Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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Marooned
TexasThree marooned astronauts. Only 55 minutes left to rescue them. While the whole world watches and waits... — After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
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Sabata
TexasThe man with gunsight eyes comes to kill! — Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
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Viva Max!
TexasSome heroes are born. Some are made. Some are mistakes. — In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!
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Death of a Gunfighter
Texas The 1890sIn the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town on hiring him had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
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The Great Bank Robbery
Texas The 1880sA motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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Ace High
TexasAfter Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
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Hellfighters
TexasThe Toughest Hellfighter Of All! — The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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Bandolero!
TexasThere are "Westerns" and "Westerns". Every now and then comes a NEW kind of Western. This is "BANDOLERO!". — Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
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Man and a Colt
Texas The 1910s The 1830sDakota Joe is a hired gunman. For that reason he arrives at a border ranch in Mexico hired by the landowner Don Carlos, to eliminate the village doctor, a good man who helps the poor. So Dakota Joe decides not to fulfill his commitment and together with a former outlaw who is now honored, they plan to steal all the money that Don Carlos stores in the safe and to support the revolution of Zapata
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Garter Colt
Texas The 1860sAt the border with Mexico, a brave young woman defends herself from the attack of the fearsome bandit, "Red", mastering a gun and the game of poker. Falling in love with a young Frenchman, he asks her to give up gambling and start a quiet and normal life, but when the young man is killed by "Red", she is determined to seek revenge. Source: SWDB http://www.spaghetti-western.net
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Bonnie and Clyde
Texas The 1930sThey’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people. — In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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Billion Dollar Brain
TexasPow … Power … Brainpower — A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
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The Reluctant Astronaut
TexasHe's an Astro-Knott Turned Astronaut in the Maddest Mix Up in Space History!! — Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
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Manos: The Hands of Fate
TexasIt's Shocking! It's Beyond Your Imagination! — A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
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