The best Tom Laughlin’s drama movies

Tom Laughlin

Tom Laughlin

10/08/1931- 12/12/2013
We present our ranking of the best Tom Laughlin’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Tom Laughlin.

Billy Jack

Billy Jack
6.2/10
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.

The Born Losers

The Born Losers
5.9/10
A ruthless motorcycle gang rides into a California town and terrorizes its denizens.

Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/09/1956
  • Character: Ralph
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.

The Delinquents

The Delinquents
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1957
  • Character: Scotty
A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

Billy Jack Goes to Washington
4.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/04/1977
  • Character: Billy Jack
After a senator suddenly dies after completing (and sealing) an investigation into the nuclear power industry, the remaining senator and the state governor must decide on a person who will play along with their shady deals and not cause any problems. They decide on Billy Jack, currently sitting in prison after being sent to jail at the end of his previous film, as they don't expect him to be capable of much, and they think he will attract young voters to the party.

Lafayette Escadrille

Lafayette Escadrille
5.5/10
A hotshot young flyer falls for a French sex worker during World War I.

The Trial of Billy Jack

The Trial of Billy Jack
4.6/10
After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to their liberal shenanigans, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day.

The Master Gunfighter

The Master Gunfighter
4.5/10
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.

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