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Movies Like The Wild Women of Nowhere

If you liked The Wild Women of Nowhere, a western and drama movie directed by Bella Svojtka, 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. 1Frontera

    Frontera (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and drama

    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…

  2. 2Broke

    Broke (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    A bronc rider in denial about his fading rodeo career battles against brain injury and a sudden blizzard while reflecting on how it became so difficult to achieve his dreams.

  3. 3Jane Got a Gun

    Jane Got a Gun (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western and drama

    After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her…

  4. 4True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  5. 5Thieves Highway

    Thieves Highway (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10Also western

    After discovering a plot to haul stolen cattle in the middle of nowhere, a desperate and isolated lawman becomes the only thing standing between a group of dangerous rustlers and a clear run to the border.

  6. 6Appaloosa

    Appaloosa (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and western

    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.

  7. 7Forty Guns

    Forty Guns (1957)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western and drama

    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…

  8. 8Jubal

    Jubal (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western and drama

    Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of…

  9. 9The Proud Rebel

    The Proud Rebel (1958)

    ★ 6/10Also western and drama

    Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a…

  10. 10Barbarosa

    Barbarosa (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…

  11. 11Old Henry

    Old Henry (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and drama

    A widowed farmer and his son warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his…

  12. 12The Call of the Wild

    The Call of the Wild (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and western

    John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles…

  13. 13Deadwood: The Movie

    Deadwood: The Movie (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western and drama

    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…

  14. 14Don't Come Knocking

    Don't Come Knocking (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and western

    Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over…

  15. 15The Missouri Breaks

    The Missouri Breaks (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and drama

    When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin…

  16. 163:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma (1957)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    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.

  17. 17Purgatory

    Purgatory (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western

    An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…

  18. 18Hombre

    Hombre (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western and drama

    John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

  19. 19El Dorado

    El Dorado (1966)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and drama

    Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their…

  20. 20The Hateful Eight

    The Hateful Eight (2015)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and western

    Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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