Movies like Meek's Cutoff
Meek's Cutoff (2011) is a western movie directed by Kelly Reichardt. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Dances with Wolves (1990)
★ 7.8 · 4,860 votes · Adventure, Drama, Western
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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2. Maverick (1994)
★ 6.9 · 1,861 votes · Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
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3. The Sisters Brothers (2018)
★ 6.8 · 2,172 votes · Western, Drama, Comedy
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. Dead Man (1995)
★ 7.3 · 1,806 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Western
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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8. Lean on Pete (2018)
★ 6.9 · 377 votes · Drama, Adventure, Western
Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.
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