Movies about horses

Movies about horses
List of the best movies about horses selected by visitors to our site: Secretariat, The Horse Whisperer, Flicka, The Silver Brumby, Jappeloup, War Horse, Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story, Black Beauty, Young Black Stallion, Hidalgo.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, family, biography, history, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:56
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Housewives
PlotOn real events, Sports, Competitions, Rivalry
PlaceUSA
StyleExciting, To cry, Inspirational, Touching, Serious

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:50
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Cowboys
PlaceNew York
StyleTo cry, Touching, Serious

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: 6.1
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:35
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Cowboys, Family
PlotFriendship, Family life
PlaceUSA
StyleTo cry, Touching

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: 5.8
Genredrama, family
CountryAustralia
Duration01:33
CharactersHorses, Heroes, Family
PlotAdventure, Chase
StyleExciting, By books

A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia, who must find its place among its kind, while one man makes it his mission to capture it and tame it. Australian adaptation of Elyne Mitchell's "The silver Brumby".

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, sport
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration02:10
CharactersHorses
PlotOn real events, Sports, Passion, Friendship, Rivalry
PlaceFrance
StyleTouching, Serious

A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, India
Duration02:26
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Military, Alcoholics
PlotWar, Friendship
PlaceEngland
TimeWorld War I
StyleTo cry, Fascinating, Epic, Touching, Serious

Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:46
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Family
PlotOn real events, Adventure, Justice
StyleExciting, To cry, Inspirational, Touching, Serious

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:28
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Family, Friends
PlotAdventure, Friendship, Justice
PlaceEngland
StyleLight, To cry, Cute, Inspirational, Fascinating

The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreadventure, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:39
CharactersHorses, Heroes, Family, Friends, Fathers
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Life, Friendship, Freedom
PlaceMountains, Deserts
TimeWorld War II
StyleTouching, Serious

When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, drama, adventure, western, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Morocco
Duration02:16
CharactersHorses, Cowboys
PlotOn real events, Adventure, Freedom, Rivalry
PlaceWild West, Deserts
StyleExciting, Inspirational, Fascinating, Serious

Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryGermany
Duration01:46
CharactersTeens, Animals, Horses, Family
PlaceGermany
TimeSummer
StyleSoulful, By books, Touching, Serious

While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Höppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryAustralia
CharactersHorses
PlotOn real events, Racing
PlaceAustralia
StyleExciting, Inspirational, Soulful, Serious

The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:36
CharactersTeens, Animals, Horses, Fathers, Orphans
PlotTime travel, Travel, Money, Loneliness, Swimming
PlaceHospitals
StyleExciting, Light, Fascinating

Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, family
CountryFrance
CharactersHorses
PlotFriendship, Chase, Freedom
PlaceFrance

In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of wild horses too proud to let themselves be broken by humans. Only Folco, a young fisherman, manages to tame him. A strong friendship grows between the boy and the horse, as the two go looking for the freedom that the world of men won’t allow them.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:41
CharactersTeens, Horses, Family
PlotFriendship
PlaceUSA
StyleTo cry, Cute, Soulful, Touching

While fulfilling her community service hours at a horse rescue ranch, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused show horse who won't let anyone ride him.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, history, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:20
CharactersAnimals, Horses, Cowboys, Trainers, Businessmen
PlotSports, Gambling, Boxing, Depression, Bets
StyleExciting, To cry, Inspirational, Touching, Serious

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: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
Duration02:24
CharactersHorses, Indians, Cowboys, Psychologists, Photographers
PlotSoccer, Adventure, Friendship, Depression, Fate
PlacePrison, Nature
StyleExciting, To cry, Heartbreaking, Sad ones

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama
CountryFrance
CharactersHorses
PlotObsession, Friendship
StyleSoulful, Heavy, Touching

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefamily
CountryUSA
CharactersDogs
PlotOn real events, Friendship
StyleTouching

A girl inherits a miniature horse that develops an unlikely friendship with her half-sister's Jack Russell Terrier, who takes to riding on the horse's back.

Duration02:55
CharactersMafia, Gangsters, Gangsters, Lawyers
PlotLife, Family life
StylePopular, By books, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Heavy

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, drama, family
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:37

Fifteen year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, family, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:34
CharactersTeens, Horses, Family, Friends, Losers
PlotOn real events, Friendship
StyleSerious

The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential. Moondance manages to talk Dante into training her and Checkers for the Bow Valley Classic and despite the criticism of her peers; discovers that perseverance, loyalty and individuality can land you in the winner's circle.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:42
CharactersTeens, Horses, Gangsters, Heroes, Family
PlotAdventure, Friendship, Rivalry
StyleTouching

Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:36
CharactersTeens, Horses, Strong women
PlotRivalry
PlaceFrance
StyleTo cry, Touching

In Normandy, Louise lives happily in the horse world. Suddenly, fate strikes. Louise left alone with his father and a family friend to Ferronnière the stud where she has always lived. Business is bad, they are on the verge of bankruptcy ... Fortunately there Marquise, a young mare Louise high. Against all odds, the girl and Marquise will fight against the fate that seems hell-bent ...

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
CharactersFamily
PlotLove, On real events, Friendship, Rivalry
PlaceSmall cities
StyleExciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching

Tells the incredible true story of Amberley Snyder, a nationally ranked rodeo barrel racer who defies the odds after barely surviving a car accident that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:07
CharactersTeens, Horses, Indians, Cowboys, Disabled people
PlotMoney, Friendship, Weapon, Moving, Fear
PlaceMoon, Hospitals, Cemetery
StyleExciting, Fascinating, Heavy, Touching, Disturbing

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

Markimdb: 9
Genredocumentary, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:01
CharactersSingers

Filmed in its entirety at London's Wembley Arena during her worldwide sold-out 25-city Confessions Tour (2006's top-grossing tour world-wide), this concert film features songs from throughout the queen's career but largely focuses on Confessions On A Dance Floor.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, family, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:03
CharactersTeens, Horses, Heroes, Family, Friends
PlotAdventure, Friendship
PlaceVillage, England
StyleTo cry, By books, Touching, Serious

Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse...

Markimdb: 8.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryNew Zealand, USA
Duration03:21
CharactersKings, Elves, Orcs, Troll, Friends
PlotLove, Time travel, Adventure, Travel, Magic
StyleExciting, Vivid, Oscars, Atmospheric, Fascinating

Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryRussia
CharactersHorses, Partners
PlaceRussia, Fairy-tale worlds
StyleFor children, Fairy tales

Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.





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