Movies with Plot Set in Texas

The son of a rancher in the Texas panhandle does not share his father's love of the land nor his morals.

Nadine (1987)

The owner of a failing Austin honky-tonk and his wife come into possession of a highway right-of-way map and soon find themselves involved with rattlesnake...human and reptile.

A group of 1950s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Houston residents Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers.

A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.

A bio-pic of Fort Worth'sGladney.
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill in Fort Worth. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it.

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Bud, a young man from the country learns about life and love in a Houston bar.

Town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse.

A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.

Based on the oil-boom in Burkburnette, Texas , Two buddies rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons.

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students, from this all-black college, to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship

When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization.

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

The hard-scrabble life of the poor Tucker family, that worked as migrants in the cotton fields of Texas of east Texas... and decide to get their own farm, but nature is against them.

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

'Grand Champion' weaves the tale of a spunky young boy named Buddy and his prize-winning calf, Hokey, as they climb from the underdog position and up through the ranks of several Texas stock shows to ultimately win the coveted title of Grand Champion. People from all walks of life help Buddy and Hokey make their way across Texas by cheering them on to a toe-tapping surprise ending.

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.

Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers

A rude, contemptuous Dallas talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national

Set in 1935 Waxahachie, Texas, PLACES IN THE HEART tells a story -- not unlike the familiar story told by the film "It's A Wonderful Life" -- of the delicate balance one life can exert upon so many others.

In Carthage Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, and he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive.(Real story, real town)