Movies like The Man from Snowy River

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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry.
Style: sentimental, cult classic, surprise ending, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, exciting, light ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: horse, wild west, wild horse, ranch, stallion, wilderness, river, chase, coming of age, happy ending, australian outback, treasure hunt, mentor, indians, lady, father daughter relationship, adventurer, treasure hunter, peace, father son relationship, prairie, horse riding, horseman, exodus, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 1982, 1800s, 1890s, 80s
Place: australia, new zealand
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, wild and exciting films with plots about horse, rivalry, cowboy, heroes, shootout, gunfight and cowboy boots mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Man from Snowy River: Return to Snowy River (1988), Far and Away (1992), The Shadow Riders (1982), Outback (1989), The War Wagon (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Return to Snowy River (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton), Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, independent film
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: horse, treasure hunt, love and romance, chase, wilderness, treasure hunter, peace, prairie, ranch, rancher, horse riding, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, 80s, 1890s
Place: australia
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100%
 6.6
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Far and Away (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving ...
Style: captivating, realistic, period piece, sentimental, epic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, love, enemies to lovers, obsessive quest, against the odds, love story, american dream, rise and fall, follow your dream, opposites attract, boxing, culture ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s, 50s
Place: ireland, usa, oklahoma, europe, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Shadow Riders (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style: retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: civil war, brothers, military, kidnapping, civil war veteran, family relations, rivalry, vigilantism, rescue, escapades, good versus evil, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 210
Outback (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his ...
Style: independent film, saga, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: love triangle, stallion, friends, farm, love and romance, rivalry, danger, rescue, wooing, wilderness, fistfight, ferry ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The War Wagon (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, chase, vengeance, gold, revenge, native american, frame up, rivalry, jail, old west, wild west ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 19th century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Style: action adventure, spaghetti western, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: revenge, courage, battle of the sexes, shootout, teacher, outlaw gang, tough girl, u.s. marshal, spinster, raft, pursuit, death of father ...
Time: year 1975, 19th century, 1880s
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 129K
Australia (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scenic, emotional, epic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: fall in love, unlikely couple, social differences, couples, opposites attract, desert, culture clash, wilderness, prejudice, journey, world war two, love story ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2008, 19th century, 50s ...
Place: australia, japan, england, asia, oceania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 16K
The Cowboys (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: coming of age, cattle, desert, gunfight, cowboy, old west, buddies, on the road, main character dies, gold, wild west, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 7.1
 5K
Will Penny (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, wild
Plot: horse, wild west, anarchist, indians, shootout, cowboy, mountain, heroes, aging, lone wolves, rescue, child ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, california, oregon, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.1
 3K
Monte Walsh (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, tense, period piece ...
Plot: heroes, old west, small town, forbidden love, against the odds, righting the wronged, society, escapades, human nature, working class, wild west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1890s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Valdez Horses (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: horse, cowboy, half breed, canyon, fiancee, wild west, indians, native american, shootout, youth, horseman, fistfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, ireland, usa, new mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 295
Archer (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: horse, race against time, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, chases and races, survival, escapades, friends, on the road, wilderness, horse race ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 279
Burke & Wills (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, stylized ...
Plot: aborigine, desert, camel, australian history, maze, rescue attempt, british empire, outback, journey, sandstorm, countdown, journalist ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1860s, victorian era, 1850s
Place: australia, melbourne, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 4K
The Way West (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, against the odds, rivalry, obnoxious boss, on the road, fish out of water, culture clash, father son relationship, cowboy, painting, native american, wagon train ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967, 1840s
Place: missouri, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.5
 30K
El Dorado (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: 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.
Style: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, sheriff, friendship, redemption, alcoholic, shootout, vengeance, lone hero, wild west, cowboy, adaptation, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, year 1967, 1800s
Place: texas, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.3
 1K
A Gunfight (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Cross rides into town, having failed as a gold prospector. His reputation is such that everyone expects him to shoot it out with Tenneray, who capitalizes on his ...
Style: exciting, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric
Plot: cowboy, showdown, duel, small town, small town life, old west, friends, rivalry, buddies, heroes, bare chested male, bare butt ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, justice, gambling, brutality, redemption, shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Earthling (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style: anamorphic, surreal, serious, independent film
Plot: coming of age, survival, youth, tragedy, homeless, nature, wilderness, orphan, culture clash, isolation, escapades, heroes ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Style: black and white, existential, retro, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, chase, friendship, modern west, on the run, escape, indians, idealism, small town, wilderness, cowboy, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 1950s, 60s, year 1952
Place: albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: horse, ranch, animal, travel, cowboy, riding accident, rider horse relationship, parent child relationship, horse riding, couples, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: montana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
Style: semi serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, buried treasure, lost treasure, coming of age, youth, archaeologist, treasure hunter, cons and scams, rivalry, criminal heroes, danger, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1860s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.4
 51K
True Grit (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he ...
Style: stylized, harsh, suspense, exciting, spaghetti western ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: revenge, bounty hunter, murder, manhunt, cowboy, hanging, texas ranger, reward, civil war veteran, teenage girl, alcoholic, justice ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: texas, oklahoma, arkansas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Comancheros (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, texas ranger, renegade, horse, comanche indian, small town, desert, gunfight, shootout, chase, murder, gambler ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1800s, 60s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, mexico, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Last Sunset (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, dog, lonely, cowboy, summer, sandstorm, wanted, fugitive, romantic rivalry, civil war veteran, rancher, partner ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: texas, mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
 1K
Storm Rider (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, thought provoking, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, farm, family relations, youth, life turned upside down, friends, orphan, coming of age, self discovery, friendship, couples, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.6
 862
Guns of Diablo (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bronson and Russell are up against some bad guys who run the town to which the pair have gone for supplies. Bronson runs into an old girl friend, Oliver, who is now married to his enemy Merlin. Bronson had long ago broken Merlin's arm, and now ...
Style: exciting, realistic, semi serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, showdown, shootout, small town, heroes, friendship, lovers reunited, rivalry, love and romance, partners against crime, criminal's revenge, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: charles dickens, family reunited, dysfunctional family, greed, betrayal, haunted by the past, family relations, rescue, uncle nephew relationship, boarding school, fall in love, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2002, 1830s, 1850s
Place: london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.6
 27K
The Shootist (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and ...
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gunfight, cancer, wild west, widow, self defense, small town, haunted by the past, cowboy, retirement, danger, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1976, 1880s, 1870s ...
Place: tucson arizona, el paso texas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 923
The Texican (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads north to find his brother's killer. After battling bounty ...
Style: spaghetti western, retro, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: bounty hunter, cowboy, woman with a gun, heroes, old west, battles, hitman, tough heroes, righting the wronged, criminal heroes, manhunt, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1966
Place: texas, latin america, new mexico, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
 2K
Hellbenders (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Civil War has ended, but not for Jonas, a ruthless Confederate officer who wants to continue the fight by reorganizing Confederate troops in the Southwest with the support of a large sum of stolen money. He devises an elaborate ruse to allow his ...
Style: spaghetti western, cult classic, euro western, realistic, serious ...
Plot: cowboy, civil war, wild west, american civil war, bar fight, family relations, heist, old west, murder, siblings relations, chases and races, on the run ...
Time: year 1967, 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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