Movies like The Big Country
The Big Country (1958) is a western movie directed by William Wyler. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
★ 7.1 · 4,611 votes · Western, Comedy, Drama
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
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2. The Power of the Dog (2021)
★ 6.7 · 3,074 votes · Drama, Western
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
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3. Old Yeller (1957)
★ 6.9 · 315 votes · Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
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4. Open Range (2003)
★ 7.2 · 1,276 votes · Western
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
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5. They Call Me Trinity (1970)
★ 7.6 · 1,512 votes · Action, Comedy, Western
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
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6. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
★ 7.8 · 1,349 votes · Western
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
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7. Appaloosa (2008)
★ 6.6 · 1,142 votes · Drama, Western, Crime
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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8. Amélie (2001)
★ 7.9 · 12,734 votes · Comedy, Romance
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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9. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
★ 7.8 · 7,769 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
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10. The Revenant (2015)
★ 7.5 · 19,825 votes · Western, Drama, Adventure
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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11. Heaven's Gate (1980)
★ 6.7 · 438 votes · Drama, Western, History
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
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12. True Grit (2010)
★ 7.3 · 5,966 votes · Drama, Adventure, Western
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
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13. Slow West (2015)
★ 6.7 · 1,089 votes · Western, Drama, Adventure
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
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14. Joe Kidd (1972)
★ 6.4 · 428 votes · Western, Drama
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
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15. Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
★ 6.7 · 476 votes · Western, Drama, TV Movie
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
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16. The Quick and the Dead (1995)
★ 6.6 · 2,064 votes · Western, Action, Drama
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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