Movies Like Wild Burro of the West

If you liked Wild Burro of the West (1960), a western and family movie directed by Bill Keys, 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
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
★ 7.7/10Also family and western
When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s…
2
Old Yeller (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also family and 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…
3
The Electric Horseman (1979)
★ 6.1/10Also western
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain…
4
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…
5
The Misfits (1961)
★ 7/10Also western
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with…
6
Cry Macho (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also western
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
7
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…
8
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
★ 6.6/10Also western
Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.
9
Red River (1948)
★ 7.3/10Also western
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…
10
Home on the Range (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also family
When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are…
11
Frontera (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also western
After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s…
12
The Furies (1950)
★ 7.2/10Also western
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
13
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
★ 6.4/10Also western
Cowboy John O'Hanlan is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He sets out to claim it, only to discover it's a brothel.
14
A Dog's Way Home (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also family
The adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
15
City Slickers (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also western
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
16
Way Out West (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also western
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
17
Gunless (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also western
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
18
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.
19
Rango (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also family and western
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town…
20
The Lone Ranger (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also western
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him…