Cowboy Movies

List of the best movies about cowboys selected by visitors to our site: Back to the Future Part III, Chisum, El Dorado, Geronimo: An American Legend, The Missing, Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, Bless the Beasts & Children, Home on the Range, Smokey and the Bandit II, Seabiscuit.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrewestern, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:06

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, western, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, whi

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, action, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:13

Dracula travels to the American West, intent on making a beautiful ranch owner his next victim. Her fiance, outlaw Billy the Kid, finds out about it and rushes to save her.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Six children at a summer camp embark on a mission to save a buffalo herd from slaughter.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, western, cartoon, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:16

When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

The Bandit goes on another cross-country run, transporting an elephant from Florida to Texas. And, once again, Sheriff Buford T. Justice is on his tail.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, history, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:50

Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will help all the Navajo people. But Joe's friend, Bronc Hoverty, accidentally barbecues the prize bull, while Joe sells the heifers to buy plumbing and other home improvements for his stepmother.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on ... after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrewestern
CountryUSA

Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, drama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing to assassinate a US senator who will be among the spectators.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, western, crime, history
CountryAustralia
Duration01:51

It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary, news
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:54

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier terrain: the human heart.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, western, crime
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration02:18

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse that he discovers is being doped to remain docile, he flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for revenge. Dad is now a respectable sheriff in California, and has been living in fear of Rio's return.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreadventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur trappers. The mountain men take her in, unaware that Heavy Eagle has dispatched an army of Indian braves to reclaim her.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration01:45

A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

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: 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: 6.6
Genredrama, western, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, comedy, drama, western
CountryCanada
Duration01:29

A quiet and peaceful community in the Dominion of Canada is shaken up by the arrival of a wounded and stinky gun-toting American cowboy, simply known as The Montana Kid, wanted for the alleged killing of seven men. A subsequent clarification reveals that his real name is Sean Rafferty, and he admits to killing, not seven, but eleven men. Things only get worse after Sean gets in the bad books of the local militia, and with armed bounty hunters hot on his trail, challenges the local unarmed blacksmith, Jack Smith, to a duel - wild west style! Written by rAjOo

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, musical, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryBelgium, Netherlands
Duration01:51

The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, action, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.

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