Movies and TV shows set in montana
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in montana ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, independent film, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with small town, violence, family relations, death, friendship, rifle, vengeance, storytelling, dialogue and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Western and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as montana: A River Runs Through It (1992), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Certain Women (2016), Northfork (2003), Badlands (1973), Let Him Go (2020), 12 Men of Christmas (2009), Walking Out (2017), Montana Story (2021), Big Sky (2020).
Best films
List of movies set in montana
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, period piece, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, father son relationship, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, self discovery, brothers, wilderness, death of brother, gambling ...
Time:
1900s, 1920s, 1910s, year 1992, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, usa
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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, emotional, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
horse, cowboy, ranch, animal, stallion, horse riding, riding accident, travel, rider horse relationship, true love, therapy, parent child relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, usa, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Style:
thought provoking, ironic, disturbing, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
lesbian interest, mountain, mother daughter relationship, small town, teacher, flirting, dysfunctional relationship, feminist, marriage, lgbt, women, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1975, year 1959, year 1966, year 1918
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a ...
Style:
visually stunning, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
small town, adoption, boy, dream, coming of age, society, hopes, human nature, social relations, sick child, priest, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
montana, usa, california, minnesota, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Style:
road movie, sexy, surreal, visual, art house ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, killing spree, crime spree, road trip, father daughter relationship, lovers on the run, killer, murder, on the run, violent, true crime, landscape ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1959, year 1973 ...
Place:
south dakota, montana, usa, wyoming
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Style:
suspense, period piece, emotional, tense, rough ...
Plot:
grief, horse, abusive husband, husband wife relationship, grandson, father in law daughter in law relationship, brutality, death, sheriff, retired, fight, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 20th century, year 1952, 60s
Place:
north dakota, montana
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A high-powered New York publicist finds herself in Montana promoting a charity calendar after being betrayed by her boss and fiancé. Unfortunately, matters of the heart are just as complicated in the wilds as they are in the big city.
Style:
sexual, sincere, entertaining, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
tourism, christmas, holiday, christmas romance, rocky mountains, male female relationship, rescue mission, lifestyle change, activist, escapades, workplace, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana, new york, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
wilderness, grizzly bear, bear attack, hunting, bear, teenage boy, father son relationship, snow, grownups, parent child relationship, estranged father, winter ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Follows two estranged siblings as they return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, neo western
Plot:
siblings, brother and sister, family relations, brother sister relationship, family problems, family reunited, farmhouse, estranged brother, estrangement, life is a bitch, relationship problems, estranged sister ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the ...
Style:
psychological, detective, suspenseful, enigmatic, sad ...
Plot:
unfaithful husband, investigation, private detective, kidnapping, mentally unstable, bad reputation, husband wife relationship, mysterious disappearance, mysterious place, social relations, who done it, twists and turns ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
montana
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98K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious, rough ...
Plot:
cowboy, great depression, fight, survival, life is a bitch, journey, relationships, family relations, society, small town, rural setting, female nudity ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1940s, 60s
Place:
montana, africa
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Style:
tense, spaghetti western, cult classic, grim, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
eccentricity, horse ranch, killed during sex, train robbery, hanging, death of friend, river, outlaw, ranch, love, murder, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
1880s, year 1976, 19th century, 70s
Place:
montana, canada, missouri, usa, wyoming ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.
Style:
costume drama, disturbing, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, violence, bandit, female protagonist, old west, fight, criminal, battles, criminal gang, victorian england, women, survivalist ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
montana
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, stylized, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
old west, cowboy, violence, gunslinger, gunfight, shootout, revenge, showdown, civil war veteran, friendship, small town, cattle ...
Time:
19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s, 1880s
Place:
montana, texas
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
Style:
suspenseful, anamorphic, serious, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
mountain, native american reservation, american indian, native american tribe, native, bounty hunter, native american, dog, survival, treasure hunt, nature, scenery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, usa
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106K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style:
tense, suspense, rough, costume drama, visually stunning ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, wild west, indian chief, american indian, death, murder of husband, murder of daughter, indigenous people, murder, widow, trip ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, 1890s, 2010s, victorian era ...
Place:
montana, america, new mexico, usa, colorado
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, semi serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
murder, small town, witness, dishonesty, witnessing a crime, disorder, nothing goes right, small town life, cons and scams, coming of age, blood, small village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, indie film ...
Plot:
american football, small town, coming of age, homoerotic friendship, cheerleader, football, friendship, ambition, athlete's life, teenage life, hopes, love and romance ...
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style:
melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, small town, doctor, death, violence, epidemic, chase, virus, one against many, indians, native american, immunity ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
montana, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style:
road movie, humorous, action thriller, captivating, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, heist, chase, on the road, treasure hunt, buddies, car chase, friendship between men, robbery, bank robbery, preacher, hidden money ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood ...
Style:
romantic, romantic comedy, touching, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, gay interest, friendship, homosexuality, gay couple, lgbt, gay love, gay romance, self discovery, small town, gay crush ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, indiana, usa, new jersey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In this family-friendly adventure, two teens must put their rivalry aside and join forces to stop notorious bandits and survive the brutal wilderness known as the Treasure State.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, entertaining, teen, suspense
Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
winter, plane crash, rivalry, family feud, treasure hunt, snow, wilderness, escapades, teenager, air disaster, teamwork, survival ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Style:
funny, retro
Plot:
mail order bride, son, marriage, kidnapped, fire, old friend, single mother, shootout, cattle, fall in love, wedding, gambling ...
Time:
1890s
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, meditative ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, aging, elderly, confronting the past, on the road, relationships, old age, obsessive quest, character study, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, nebraska, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, unemployment, infidelity, cheerleader, unemployed, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, parents and children, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations ...
Time:
year 1960, 90s, 60s
Place:
montana, oklahoma city, sarajevo, portland oregon, idaho ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young Abigale Archer is left friendless and alone in a brutal Montana winter during the 1870s—fighting for survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, her family’s horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits.
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, bandit, violence, gang of outlaws, fight, life is a bitch, female protagonist, criminal, criminal gang, gang, brutality, cold ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
montana
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with ...
Style:
dark comedy, erotic, humorous, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot:
serial killer, sex scene, dark humor, desert, murder, waitress, investigation, infidelity, nudity, murder of a nude woman, strong female character, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son moving back to her Montana hometown after the death of her father.
Style:
emotional
Plot:
small town, family drama, homecoming, getting home, adultery, infidelity, mother son relationship, affair, love triangle, intimate, grief, teen romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
With the Yellowstone Ranch behind him, Kayce Dutton joins an elite unit of U.S. Marshals, combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
law enforcement, ptsd, modern western, violence, duty, brotherhood, machismo, moral ambiguity, vigilantism, isolation, revenge, cowboy ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An independent country girl, Paisley, takes on the task of upholding her adored grandfather's ranch. After being denied the funding needed to refurbish the ranch, she is reintroduced to her ex-boyfriend Josh, a big-time marketing executive ...
Style:
romantic drama, thrilling, psychological, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, second chance, love interest, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, ex couple relations, financial problem, relationships, couples, romantic relationship ...
Place:
montana
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