Movies and TvShows featuring "staged-ambush" theme.

A widower returns to his hometown to reconcile with his son and faces a confrontation with a ruthless cattle baron in the Wyoming Territory.

In the 1840s, a Texan senator seeks statehood for Texas while facing political rivalries and Comanche attacks. A cattle baron betrays him, leading to a series of gun battles, ambushes, and horseback chases. Amidst the turmoil, a love story unfolds and the fate of Texas hangs in the balance.

Molly Louvain's life is turned upside down when she falls for a charming but dangerous man. As their relationship progresses, Molly finds herself caught up in a web of crime, love, and deceit. She must navigate the dangerous world she has become a part of while trying to protect herself and those she cares about.

In A Double Life (1947), a Broadway actor becomes completely consumed by his role as Othello, leading to a series of events filled with jealousy, murder, and insanity.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent film about an engineer who works to develop the desert wasteland through irrigation. The film explores a romantic triangle between the engineer, a land developer, and a settler woman. It also includes elements of a classical Western, with scenes of sandstorms, rattlesnakes, and a payroll robbery. The story follows the characters as they navigate through various challenges, including a panic, lynching, flood, evacuation, and dust storms. Along the way, the engineer becomes a dam builder and adopts an orphan. Based on a novel, the film showcases the struggles and triumphs of transforming the barren Colorado River region.

When a famous necklace is stolen on an ocean liner, master thief Arsène Lupin returns to solve the crime and clear his name.

Popular crime novelist, Jennifer Becker lives a lavish life in a small coastal town in California with her daughter, Lily. One day, while out for a run, Lily is attacked--but then rescued by a mysterious stranger named Mick.

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.