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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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10 famous stories set in Texas

Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-04). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.

Browse 418 books, 687 movies, 27 TV shows and 10 games set in Texas.

One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another

movie

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…

Setting: USA: California; TexasTime Period: Contemporary: 2020s; Flashbacks 1960s-1980s
No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

Miramax-Scott Rudin Productions-Paramount Vantage-Mike Zoss Productions
movie

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…

Setting: Texas, USATime Period: 1980s
For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More

PEA-Constantin Film-Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas
movie

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

Setting: Texas, USA; MexicoTime Period: 1870s
Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

Universal Pictures-Voltage Pictures-Evolution Independent-Truth Entertainment-CE-R² Films-Rainmaker Films
movie

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.

Setting: Texas, USATime Period: 1986
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

by Malcolm Gladwell
book

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…

Setting: Texas, USATime Period: 2015
Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

Universal Pictures-Focus Features-Artina Films-Fade to Black Productions
movie

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…

Setting: Texas, USATime Period: 2016
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Vortex-Henkel Productions-Hooper Productions-Bryanston Pictures
movie

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

Setting: Texas, USATime Period: 1970s
JFK

JFK

Ixtlan Productions-Warner Bros. Pictures-Canal+-Regency Enterprises-Alcor Films-Camelot Pictures
movie

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

Setting: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Dallas, Texas, USATime Period: 1960s
Boyhood

Boyhood

IFC Films-Detour Filmproduction
movie

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…

Setting: Houston, Texas, USATime Period: 2000s-2010s
From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn

Miramax-A Band Apart-Dimension Films-Los Hooligans Productions
movie

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…

Setting: Texas, USA; MexicoTime Period: Contemporary

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