Movies like The Power of the Dog
The Power of the Dog (2021) is a western movie directed by Jane Campion. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4 · 2,971 votes · Drama, Western, Romance
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. Let Him Go (2020)
★ 6.8 · 861 votes · Thriller, Crime, Western
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.
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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
★ 6.8 · 710 votes · Western, Drama
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.
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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. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
★ 7.2 · 481 votes · Drama, Western
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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12. 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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