Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "western-frontier"

1. The Searchers (1956)

Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond

Votes: 96,329

2. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook | Stars: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi, Chopper Bernet

Votes: 85,411 | Gross: $73.28M

3. Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

GP | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, Josh Albee

Votes: 35,002 | Gross: $47.74M

4. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024)

Drama, Western | Post-production

The continuation of one story of the settlement of the American west. It follows the further adventures of characters first featured in Horizon: An American Saga.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Isabelle Fuhrman

5. Ravenous (1999)

R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

In a remote military outpost in the 19th century, Captain John Boyd and his regiment embark on a rescue mission which takes a dark turn when they are ambushed by a sadistic cannibal.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies

Votes: 43,258 | Gross: $2.06M

6. The Tall Stranger (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Western

Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Pate

Votes: 927

7. First Cow (2019)

PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Western

A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.

Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith, Ryan Findley

Votes: 21,978

8. The Missing (I) (2003)

R | 137 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In 1885 New Mexico, a frontier medicine woman forms an uneasy alliance with her estranged father when her daughter is kidnapped by an Apache brujo.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Boyd

Votes: 38,239 | Gross: $26.90M

9. Love Comes Softly (2003 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800's suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?

Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, Corbin Bernsen, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Votes: 6,978

10. Spirit Untamed (2021)

PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.

Directors: Elaine Bogan, Ennio Torresan | Stars: Isabela Merced, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace, Walton Goggins

Votes: 4,736

11. The Big Trail (1930)

Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall

Votes: 4,339

12. Crossfire Trail (2001 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Western

Rafe promises a dying friend to look after his wife and 40,000 acre ranch in Wyoming. A powerful businessman wants the ranch and widow by whatever means necessary.

Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Selleck, Virginia Madsen, Wilford Brimley, David O'Hara

Votes: 3,669

13. The Naked Spur (1953)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 12,666

14. The Claim (2000)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan, Ron Anderson, Marty Antonini

Votes: 6,618 | Gross: $0.67M

15. Northwest Passage (1940)

Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.

Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey

Votes: 3,907

16. The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.

Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 3,579

17. The Rare Breed (1966)

Approved | 97 min | Western

An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy hornless bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas, but have to overcome greedy criminals and the natural elements.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills

Votes: 3,970

18. The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: James Arness, Brian Keith, Alec Baldwin, David Ogden Stiers

Votes: 743

19. The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956–1958)

30 min | Adventure, Western

The adventures of frontier hero Jim Bowie are brought to life in this popular children's television series.

Stars: Scott Forbes, William Schallert, John Laing, Joyce Vanderveen

Votes: 278

20. The Wild Country (1970)

G | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard, Clint Howard

Votes: 349

21. Santa Fe Passage (1955)

Passed | 91 min | Western

A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.

Director: William Witney | Stars: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens

Votes: 527

22. Great Day in the Morning (1956)

Approved | 92 min | Western

A Confederate drifter wins a hotel saloon at poker in Denver but two rival female admirers, local Union sympathizers, Southern gold miners and an orphaned boy complicate his life.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol

Votes: 1,038

23. The Badlanders (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Western

Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly

Votes: 1,688

24. True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Western

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Warren Oates, Lisa Pelikan, Lee Meriwether, James Stephens

Votes: 215

25. Seasons of Love (1999)

240 min | Drama

Thomas Linthorne is a farmer, who, with his bride, Kate, settles a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866. Linthorne is a dynamic and driven man who eventually becomes a pillar of ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward, Rip Torn, John Finn

Votes: 99

26. Blood on the Arrow (1964)

Approved | 91 min | Western

In 1871 Arizona, an escaped outlaw survives an Indian attack and helps a trading-post family retrieve their kidnapped son from marauding Apaches.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey, Dandy Curran

Votes: 262

27. Man of the Forest (1933)

Approved | 62 min | Western

Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey, Noah Beery

Votes: 259

28. War Arrow (1953)

Passed | 78 min | Romance, War, Western

Major Howell Brady arrives in Indian Territory in hopes of recruiting peaceful, relocated Seminoles to help the army fight rampaging Kiowas.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler, John McIntire, Suzan Ball

Votes: 919 | Gross: $1.40M

29. Apache Woman (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Western

A government agent is sent to a western town to investigate attacks that the townspeople say are being commited by rampaging Apaches. The agent, however, suspects that different forces may be committing these crimes.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Joan Taylor, Lance Fuller, Morgan Jones

Votes: 190

30. Gun Glory (1957)

Approved | 89 min | Western

A gunfighter defends his town when cattlemen threaten to destroy it by stampeding cattle through the farmlands.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland

Votes: 901

31. Valley of the Sun (1942)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Western

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, a fugitive army scout and a crooked Indian Agent lock horns over the treatment of the cheated Natives and over the affections of a local beauty.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Craig, Cedric Hardwicke, Dean Jagger

Votes: 427

32. The Santa Fe Trail (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

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Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Rosita Moreno, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 27

33. Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary

An inside look at the hectic production of Heaven's Gate (1980), the media circus that turned it into a synonym for movie flop and how it added to the tectonic change that occurred in Hollywood film studios after it infamously flopped.

Director: Michael Epstein | Stars: Steven Bach, Hal Ashby, Sandy Berke Jordan, Jeff Bridges

Votes: 530

34. The Massacre (1912)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, War

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Wilfred Lucas, Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Alfred Paget

Votes: 355

35. The World Changes (1933)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook

Votes: 527

36. This Woman Is Mine (1941)

Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A girl stows away on a ship, and the antics begins.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Franchot Tone, John Carroll, Walter Brennan, Carol Bruce

Votes: 144

37. The Prairie (1947)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Religious fanatic Ishmael Bush is determined to find a land where the rules could be of his own making. So he sets out from Kentucky with his wife and five sons to go into the un-surveyed ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Lenore Aubert, Alan Baxter, Russ Vincent, John Mitchum

Votes: 39

38. A Child of the Prairie (1915)

63 min | Western

In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?

Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Louella Maxam, Norma Maxam, Ed Brady

Votes: 23

39. The Wild Dakotas (1956)

Passed | 73 min | Western

When Indian land is threatened by a take-over by white settlers, a frontiersman tries to prevent an Indian uprising.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Bill Williams, Coleen Gray, Jim Davis, John Litel

Votes: 70

40. Wyoming (1928)

Passed | Action, Adventure, Romance

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Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Sebastian, Charles Bell, William Fairbanks

Votes: 24

41. Out West (1972)

2 min | Short, Comedy, Western

A comedy western gunfight scene, performed by kids in a basement.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Chris Cornetta, Liz Larsen, Bill Ritter

42. Heroes of the West (1932)

Passed | 225 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Julie Bishop, Onslow Stevens, William Desmond

Votes: 60

43. The Frontier Experience (1975)

25 min | Short, Drama

1869. A widow and her family struggle to eke out a living in the bleak and largely uninhabited Kansas plains.

Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Roger Hoffman

Votes: 59

44. Captain Courtesy (1915)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1840, while California is ruled by Mexico, American settlers are in constant danger from Mexican marauders. After a band of Mexican soldiers led by American renegade George Granville ... See full summary »

Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Courtenay Foote, Herbert Standing

Votes: 17

45. Twilight (Physics in the Twilight) (1995)

Documentary, Short

Is Physics coming to an end? Documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Gold explores how the natural limitations of experimentation is preventing theory from being tested at the levels to which we've ... See full summary »

Director: Jeffrey Gold | Stars: Peter Fivas, Richard Price

Votes: 15

46. Dos Almas (2013)

16 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

In 1850 deep in the western wilderness, women meet. Two-Spirit natures are revealed when worlds collide......

Director: L. Danielle Villegas

47. Reward (2008)

20 min | Short, Western

An escaped outlaw rides into a forgotten mining town and the last remaining citizens plot to capture him and collect the reward money.

Director: Charlton Thorp | Stars: Michael Wayne James, Nick Sowell, Karen Bethzabe, Kenny Brandt

48. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Forty Steps to Glory (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Buff McCloud runs a Nevada town with an iron fist, dispatching opposition ruthlessly. After bringing in dance hall girl Fay, he's jealous of her friendship with Randall who stands up to him. Randall uses psychology and faith to oppose him.

Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Patrice Wymore, Don Megowan, Alexander Lockwood

Votes: 29

49. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Davy Crockett: Indian Fighter (1954)

Unrated | 53 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Davy is tired of the continuing war between the Indians and the settlers, so he helps the army in putting an end to it. by saving the life of the Indian leader.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, William Bakewell

Votes: 123

50. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955)

Unrated | 53 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Davy tangles with Big Foot Mason when he tries to settle in Tennessee, and in winning the battle, is asked by the townsfolk to run for office. Davy soon learns that he is not cut out for politics.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Walt Disney, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael

Votes: 102