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Hang 'em High(1968)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Western
3.5/5 (with 310 votes)

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

Australia(2008)

PG-13
| 2h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 1,021 votes)

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Red River(1948)

3.7/5 (with 213 votes)

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.

City Slickers(1991)

PG-13
| 1h 54min | Comedy, Western
3.2/5 (with 330 votes)

Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.

The Cowboys(1972)

PG
| 2h 11min | Western, Adventure, Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 95 votes)

When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

The Tall Men(1955)

3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

Blood on the Moon(1948)

NR
| 1h 28min | Action, Romance / Love, Western
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.

Comes a Horseman(1978)

3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

Cowboy(1958)

NR
| 1h 32min | Western
3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for...

Cast a Long Shadow(1959)

1h 22min | Western
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Directed by Thomas Carr - With Audie Murphy, Terry Moore, James Best, Denver Pyle, Ann Doran, Terry Frost, ...

Red River(1988)

1h 36min | Western
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.

Cattle Drive(1951)

NR
| 1h 17min | Western
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and the lad must start learning the hard lessons of working in a team if he wants to make it to San Diego.

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The Cariboo Trail(1950)

NR
| 1h 21min | Western
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.

Directed by Edwin L. Marin - With Randolph Scott

San Antone(1953)

NR
| 1h 30min | Western
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After the Civil War, a cowboy who's a former Union soldier leads a cattle drive into Mexico now occupied by the French...

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Rod Cameron

Fighting Man of the Plains(1949)

NR
| 1h 34min | Action, Romance / Love, Western
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory(1952)

NR
| 1h 6min | Western
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.

Directed by Bernard B. Ray - With Clayton Moore

Bad Jim(1990)

PG
| 1h 30min | Western
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

The Showdown(1950)

NR
| 1h 26min | Mystery, Western
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for the two of them. At the saloon-hotel run by Adelaide, Shadrach is convinced that one of the cowhands on the Captain McKellar cattle drive to Montana is his man. He takes the job of trail-herd boss to find the killer. McKellar preaches to Jones that he should forget revenge and let the law of retribution take care of the killer. Shadrach's hard driving of the men and his hunt for the killer makes him bitterly hated, and his retribution quest ends in a manner he did not anticipated.

Song of Old Wyoming(1945)

NR
| 1h 5min | Western
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Old Ma Conway champions statehood for Wyoming, believing the measure would put an end to the territory's lawlessness; but the elderly woman is opposed by cattle buyer and tax assessor Lee Landow and greedy banker Dixon. When Ma offers her opinion in a newspaper article, Landow sends his henchman Ringo to put the fear of God in the woman.

Frontier Badmen(1943)

NR
| 1h 13min | Western

A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok(1938)

NR
| 4h 18min | Western, Action

A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.

North of 36(1926)

NR
| 1h 20min | Western

A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and steal all of the stock so he can gain control of her ranch.

The Moth of Moonbi(1926)

33min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Charles Chauvel's first feature tells the story of a country girl, Dell Ferris (the Moth of Moonbi), drawn to the bright lights of the big city where her inheritance is soon frittered away with high society revelling. A wiser Dell returns to Moonbi Station where she is beset by the cattle rustler Jack Bronson, but finally finds peace and happiness with the faithful head stockman, Tom. Only part of the film survives to this day.

Directed by Charles Chauvel - With Arthur Tauchert

Lonesome Dove(1989)

6h 12min | Drama, Western, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Lonesome Dove is a Western television miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove was originally broadcast by CBS on February 5, 1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television western and the miniseries.