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Movies Like Cattle King

If you liked Cattle King (1963), a western movie directed by Tay Garnett, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Open Range

    Open Range (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western

    A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

  2. 2The Cowboys

    The Cowboys (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys…

  3. 3Decision at Sundown

    Decision at Sundown (1957)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

  4. 4The Jack Bull

    The Jack Bull (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sacrifices it all in a quest for justice.

  5. 5Go West

    Go West (1925)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

  6. 6The Kentuckian

    The Kentuckian (1955)

    ★ 5.8/10Also western

    A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

  7. 7Chisum

    Chisum (1970)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

  8. 8Dodge City

    Dodge City (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

  9. 9The Left Handed Gun

    The Left Handed Gun (1958)

    ★ 6/10Also western

    When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the…

  10. 10Rio Bravo

    Rio Bravo (1959)

    ★ 7.8/10Also western

    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.

  11. 11Comes a Horseman

    Comes a Horseman (1978)

    ★ 6/10Also western

    Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through…

  12. 12Forty Guns

    Forty Guns (1957)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both…

  13. 13Heaven's Gate

    Heaven's Gate (1980)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    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…

  14. 14Shane

    Shane (1953)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western

    A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

  15. 15The Comancheros

    The Comancheros (1961)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

  16. 16The Furies

    The Furies (1950)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

  17. 17Death of a Gunfighter

    Death of a Gunfighter (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide…

  18. 18The Last Hunt

    The Last Hunt (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    A buffalo hunter has a falling-out with his partner, who kills for fun.

  19. 19Old Yeller

    Old Yeller (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    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…

  20. 20Rio Lobo

    Rio Lobo (1970)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

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