Movies Like Giant

If you liked Giant (1956), a drama and western movie directed by George Stevens, 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
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…
2
Comes a Horseman (1978)
★ 6/10Also western and drama
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…
3
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…
4
Rancho Notorious (1952)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and western
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
5
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.
6
Old Yeller (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also drama 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…
7
News of the World (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and western
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.
8
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 6/10Also drama
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
9
Red River (1948)
★ 7.3/10Also western and drama
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
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…
11
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
★ 6.2/10Also western
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
12
Shane (1953)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and western
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.
13
Cowboy (1958)
★ 6.5/10Also western
Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds…
14
Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and western
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
15
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
★ 7.7/10Also western
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
16
Rio Bravo (1959)
★ 7.8/10Also western and drama
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.
17
Rebuilding (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.
18
Three Violent People (1956)
★ 6/10Also western
A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.
19
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.
20
Lone Star (1996)
★ 7/10Also drama and western
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.