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Criterion collection volume 1158
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between...
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English
Description
Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It's been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean's current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff's grandfather, Einar, who only...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Luke Chisolm... [is] a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford. But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life, love, and faith force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future"--Container....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
All Kendall Riley wants for the holidays is to save her family's ranch, but her longtime rival, small-town scrooge Brick McCree, has other plans in mind. When Brick's son, Clint, comes back to town, he is immediately drawn to Kendall and offers a helping hand. As a romance starts to blossom, Kendall's farm is sabotaged, leaving her to wonder about Clint's true intentions. A modern-day Christmas story that the entire family will love.
6) Flicka 2
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch to live with her father. Everything changes when she meets Flicka, a jet black mustang who is just as free-spirited and strong-willed as she is.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Host of a New England web series, Abby is set to launch her line of home products. But Abby's roots are actually in Texas, and now she must return to her dad's ranch to help him. Surprised to find her former boyfriend, Ryan, is the ranch manager, Abby is soon swept up in their old chemistry. Torn between her Texas roots and her New England aspirations, Abby must decide where she belongs-with work in the NOrtheast, or deep in the heart of Texas."--Container....
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Henry McBride is a struggling cowboy with a painful past that he can't drink away. Living on his last dollar and with nowhere to go, he reluctantly takes a last-resort ranch job and is tasked with breaking in a troubled mustang. McBride struggles to tame the beast whose past and temperament seem to mirror his own. He must break through anguish, torment, and years endured in the darkest of places, so that the mustang can once again find his spirit....
10) Chino
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A half-breed in New Mexico in 1880, takes in a runaway boy who helps run his horse ranch. A fight with his girl friend's brother puts an end to the rancher's peaceful life. This is an off-beat spaghetti western.
11) Giant
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of Texas rancher Bick Benedict, his society wife, and three generations of their land-rich Texas sons and daughters as their family rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations. A monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry, and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A drifter escapes being hanged by a lynch mob and flees to Wyoming with his sidekick. A wealthy horse rancher and her sister hire them and romance blooms. Meanwhile the ranch is plagued by rustlers and the drifter is being blamed by the real perpetrator, the town's conniving attorney.
13) The violent men
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A large sprawling western drama about a ruthless land baron who loses his grip on things due to violent forces opposing him.
14) The Americano
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
American cowboy Sam Dent travels to South America with a shipment of prize Brahma bulls for a wealthy Brazilian rancher. Dent soon learns the rancher has been killed. He then hires a bandit chaser to guide him to the ranch. After being robbed he is forced to remain in Brazil and learn the ways of the South American ranchero.
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Marrying the new station master of a Northern Territory cattle ranch, the well-bred Jeannie joins her husband in the Outback, considered "no place for a woman" circa 1902. There, she strives to establish a homestead, overcome the misogyny of the male workforce, and understand and learn from the local Aboriginal nomads.
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