Movies like Giant
Giant (1956) is a western movie directed by George Stevens. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. 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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2. 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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3. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3 · 445 votes · Western, Drama, Thriller
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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4. News of the World (2020)
★ 6.9 · 2,008 votes · Drama, Western, Adventure
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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5. First Cow (2020)
★ 7.0 · 566 votes · Drama, Western
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.
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6. Red River (1948)
★ 7.3 · 623 votes · Western, Drama, Adventure
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
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7. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
★ 7.7 · 441 votes · Western
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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8. Shane (1953)
★ 7.3 · 716 votes · Drama, Western
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
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9. Rio Bravo (1959)
★ 7.8 · 1,308 votes · Western, Drama
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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