American movies about cowboys

List of the best American movies about cowboys, selected by visitors to our site: News of the World, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, American Honey, A Country Wedding, The Kid, Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown, Deadwood: The Movie, Matt's Chance, The Hateful Eight, The Hero.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA, China

A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:25

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA

A famous country singer set to marry a glamorous Hollywood actress returns to his small town roots. When he crosses paths with his childhood sweetheart and finally feels inspired to write songs again he reevaluates his life, his values and his opinion of true love. As his wedding day approaches, he must decide if he has chosen the right woman to be his wife.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, western, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

New Mexico Territory, 1880. Rio Cutler and his older sister Sara must abandon their home after an unfortunate event happens. In their desperate flee to Santa Fe, they cross paths with the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid and his gang, who are ruthlessly pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garret.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, family, western, cartoon, detective
CountryUSA

When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Dan, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s discovered that the ghost is also the long lost relative of Shaggy Rogers!

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

A dark comedic tale about love, revenge, and the fickle nature of human morality.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok fuss, feud and fall in love. At first, Calamity is too busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay attention to such girlie things as dresses and perfume. She soon changes her mind when Katie Brown arrives in town.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryChina, Spain, South Korea, USA, United Kingdom

A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

    With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, adventure, western, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy
    CountryCanada, New Zealand, USA
    Duration01:41

      In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000 – and a bloody past – suddenly finds himself under attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      After his latest film bombs, Producer Max Barber creates a new film, all to kill his lead, Duke Montana, in a stunt for insurance. But when Duke is unable to be killed in a basic stunt, Max puts him into more dangerous situations.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, western, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      A headstrong 16 year old Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. Katy then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, western
      CountryUSA, India
      Duration01:59

      A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, western, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:06

      Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:13

        Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrewestern
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        Legendary Lawman and Gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the West, while delivering his own brand of frontier Justice and infamous gunfighter's reputation as the fastest draw in the West is put to the test

        Markimdb: 2.5
        Genrefantastic, action, western
        CountryUSA

        After her husband is taken by a malicious pterodactyl, a schoolteacher enlists the help of a prostitute and a gunslinger to rescue him.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama, western, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:19

        The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul in his quest for vengeance.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, western, cartoon
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:47

        When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, drama, western
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:44

        During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. One of the villagers takes care of him in prison. One day they both disappear – only the spear of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and his nurse.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, adventure, western
        CountryUSA, Australia
        Duration02:10

        Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:47

        When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA, Brazil

        A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        Terrified commuters are on the ride of their lives when terrorists send a subway train speeding out of control during rush hour. With the saboteur among them, a group of citizens are now trapped underground and in a race against time if they hope to see daylight again. Full of fast-paced action and suspense, Redline is a thriller that will have you holding on for safety.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, India
        Duration01:45

        A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        A family vacation takes a terrifying turn when parents Paul and Wendy discover their young daughter has vanished without a trace. Stopping at nothing to find her, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        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.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A father and son, who have been living off grid for 20 years, encounter an outsider who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.




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