Movies like The Rider
The Rider (2018) is a western movie directed by Chloé Zhao. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Shanghai Noon (2000)
★ 6.4 · 2,884 votes · Adventure, Comedy, Western
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
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2. The Magnificent Seven (2016)
★ 6.5 · 6,606 votes · Adventure, Action, Western
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
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3. Hostiles (2017)
★ 7.0 · 2,605 votes · Drama, Western, History
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.
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4. Hidalgo (2004)
★ 6.9 · 1,408 votes · Western, Adventure
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
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5. 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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6. The Hateful Eight (2015)
★ 7.8 · 15,710 votes · Drama, Mystery, Western
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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7. 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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8. The Homesman (2014)
★ 6.5 · 913 votes · Western, Drama
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
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9. 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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