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1. Dark Winds (2022– )

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Follows Leaphorn and Chee, two Navajo police officers in the 1970s Southwest that are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.

Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison

Votes: 16,380

2. Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

R | 113 min | Action, Biography, Crime

The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.

Director: Jean-François Richet | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche

Votes: 35,325 | Gross: $0.55M

3. Frybread Face and Me (2023)

TV-MA | 83 min | Drama

Two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother's ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family's past and themselves.

Director: Billy Luther | Stars: Keir Tallman, Charley Hogan, Sarah H. Natani, Martin Sensmeier

Votes: 1,140

4. Skinwalkers (2002 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The story revolves around the legend of the skin walkers or "S Dubs", a folk legend from Utah about the spirits of murdered Indians returning to seek revenge upon those who disrespect the land.

Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Harrison Lowe, James Dalgai, Adam Beach, Saginaw Grant

Votes: 1,056

5. Coyote Waits (2003 TV Movie)

107 min | Drama, Mystery

Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation.

Director: Jan Egleson | Stars: Adam Beach, Candice Costello, Jimmy Herman, Gary Kanin

Votes: 752

6. The Dark Wind (1991)

R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery

A Navajo police officer is mixed up in drug smuggling and murder on the reservation.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Lance Baker, Betty C. Barlow, Gary Basaraba, Billy Beck

Votes: 771

7. Flap (1970)

GP | 106 min | Drama, Western

Comedy based on the plight of modern aboriginal Americans living on reservations.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters

Votes: 599

8. Rez Dogs (2021)

91 min | Drama

Rakeem and Jacob's grandma just passed away and they get lost in aimlessness "rez life". They cross paths at a party with Zhonie who is a college graduate coming back to the Navajo Reservation to take care of her alcoholic uncle.

Director: Steven Tallas | Stars: Young Christian, Kendrick Holmes, Owee Rae, Steven Tallas

9. Thunder II (1987)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Drama

Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and ... See full summary »

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Mark Gregory, Raimund Harmstorf, Karen Reel, Bo Svenson

Votes: 284

10. In the Middle of the River (2018)

113 min | Drama

A wounded military veteran returns home to face the war within his own dysfunctional family, as he tries to piece together the reasons behind his sister's mysterious death.

Director: Damian John Harper | Stars: Eric Hunter, Matthew T. Metzler, Ava Del Cielo, Nikki Lowe

Votes: 136

11. King of the Wild Horses (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In an attempt to steal thousands of horses from a Navajo tribe in Arizona, outlaw Clint Bolling pretends to be a government inspector assigned to weed out the tribe's diseased animals. ... See full synopsis »

Director: Earl Haley | Stars: Rex, Lady the Horse, Marquis the Horse, William Janney

12. Old New Mexico (1940)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Documentary

The MGM short, part of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks series, takes the viewers on a tour of old New Mexico. Starting in Santa Fe, the oldest State capitol in the USA, the city existed ... See full summary »

Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, Jimmy Begay

Votes: 63

13. Metal Road (2017)

27 min | Documentary, Short

For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads, through the lens of one workday on the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang.

Director: Sarah Del Seronde | Stars: Kenneth Barney, Jerry Curley, Marshall Ben, Burt Carter

14. Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955–1956)
Episode: Grave of the Monsters (1955)

30 min | Western

A professor and his men are taking a survey on the Navajo Reservation land so that they can get to the rock oil that is underneath the rocks. They murder the Indian agent and then try to ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Dickie Jones, Nancy Gilbert, Harry Cheshire, Walter Reed

Votes: 12

15. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Anasazi (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Votes: 5,534

16. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Blessing Way (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Donat

Votes: 4,946

17. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Paranormal Rangers (2022)

TV-MA | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Accounts from people who believe to have seen Bigfoot, or what The Navajos would deem a Skinwalker.

Director: Clay Jeter | Stars: Jonathan Dover, Darius Eteeyan, Nya Simone Eteeyan, Brenda Harris

Votes: 424

18. The Reluctant Traveler (2023– )
Episode: Utah (2023)

TV-PG | 37 min | Documentary, Reality-TV

An anxious helicopter tour lands Eugene at Amangiri, where he takes in the desert's beauty and connects with the surrounding Navajo nation.

Directors: James Callum, David Brindley | Star: Eugene Levy

Votes: 148

19. Dark Winds (2022– )
Episode: Antigonish (2023)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After facing off with a dangerous man, Chee strikes out on his own; Leaphorn and Manuelito partner with the sheriff's department, leading Leaphorn to identify a vital clue.

Director: Michael Nankin | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison

Votes: 386

20. Condor (2018–2020)
Episode: What Loneliness (2018)

TV-MA | 53 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Joe's friends set him up with a girl on internet. On his first date, Joe's preoccupied with the possible terrorist on the way to a full stadium, that his algorithm identified at CIA. His analysis next day has consequences.

Director: Lawrence Trilling | Stars: Max Irons, William Hurt, Leem Lubany, Angel Bonanni

Votes: 814