Den berømte instruktør George Stevens' legendariske tolkning af en af de mest kendte westernmyter opnåede seks Oscar'-nomineringer og blev udråbt til en klassiker i amerikansk filmhistorie. Alan Ladd spiller rollen som Shane - en vagabond og tidligere gangster, der kommer en nybyggerfamllie til undsætning, da de bliver terroriseret af en rig kvægavler og dennes lejesvend (Jack Palance). I den sidste, afgørende kamp tvinges Shane til at tage sin egen livsstil op til revision. En film fuld af mystik og stemning -og fabelagtige skuespiller præstationer.
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
Conn Conagher (Sam Elliott) beundrer en kvinde med styrke, og det har Evie Teale (Katherine Ross) masser af. Hun har på mange måder været tvunget til at vise, hvad hun dur til efter at være blevet enke ude i det vilde Vesten. Conagher kommer og går i hendes liv ind imellem sin jagt på kvægtyve. Han mener ikke, han er klar til at slå sig ned med en kone, men et eller andet driver ham hele tiden tilbage til denne kvinde. Kan hun mon få ham til at blive?
During a rapid collapse of society, a rich man's mountain compound struggles between the military compulsions of its veteran operators and the rural values of its member families.
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their 'adopted' children—Holly, Ariadne, and the twins—start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
Set in 1870s Oregon, an obsessive carpenter relocates his pregnant wife and young daughter to an isolated land with the promise of a better life, but instead is plagued by grief and paranoia.
A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the weather. For different reasons, they left their city life to escape their inner demons and to live as eco-friendly and sustainable as possible.
A father and son forge a lonely existence on a remote homestead at the turn of the 20th century. As they wait for the western rail road to bring hope to their fragile existence the father's troubled history finally catches up with him.