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Stories Set in Texas
No Country deserts, Dallas dynasties, Austin weirdness and Alamo legend — Texas contains multitudes. Its stories sprawl from border thrillers to Friday-night lights.
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Browse 418 books, 687 movies, 27 TV shows and 10 games set in Texas.

One Battle After Another
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former…

No Country for Old Men
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and…

For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio" one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories and his gang.

Dallas Buyers Club
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof a drug-taking women-loving homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.How did…

Nocturnal Animals
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings a mathematics…

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
A group of five young friends face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan.

JFK
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Boyhood
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18 and examines his relationship with his…

From Dusk Till Dawn
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning when they pay off the local kingpin. They…
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