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Movies: Best "prairie" Movies


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The Quick and the Dead(1995)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 47min | Western, Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 733 votes)

A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

City Slickers(1991)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Prairie Fever(2008)

1h 21min | Action, Western
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A group of women contracted a strange fever and a former sheriff is responsible for taking them to the hospital in the nearest town, but in their way they will encounter a gang of murderers. His only hope is a woman whose beauty is matched only by his skill with weapons.

The Vanishing Prairie(1954)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 11min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.

Directed by James Algar

Sarah, Plain and Tall(1991)

3.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

Directed by Glenn Jordan - With Glenn Close

Pioneer Woman(1973)

1h 14min | Western, TV Movie
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.

Directed by Buzz Kulik

Pioniere der Prärie – Der lange Weg nach Westen(1974)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Michael Landon

Beyond the Prairie, Part 2: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues(2002)

1h 30min | Drama

Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's a daunting journey, but they're sustained by their resolve. However, they're faced with an even greater challenge after their arrival: an ailing and bedridden Almanzo is unable to tend their new land. With winter fast on its way, Laura attempts to clear the land herself and plant the acres of apple trees that they hope will ensure their future.

Why Shoot the Teacher?(1977)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.

My Prairie Home(2013)

1h 16min | Documentary, Music
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.

Directed by Chelsea McMullan - With Rae Spoon

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick(1988)

1h 35min | Drama, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own. Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.

A Prairie Story(2006)

1min | Animation

A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

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Wheat Soup(1987)

1h 15min | Comedy, Adventure

In a post-apocalyptic future, a wheat farmer embarks upon a journey and encounters a variety of unusual characters, while traveling across the land.

Who Goes There?(2020)

24min | Horror, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.