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Movies Like Night of the Wolf

If you liked Night of the Wolf (2002), a drama and adventure movie directed by David S. Cass Sr., 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. 1Deadwood: 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…

  2. 2Old Yeller

    Old Yeller (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also adventure and drama

    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. 3The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead (1987)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and western

    In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.

  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. 5Jane 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…

  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. 7The Call of the Wild

    The Call of the Wild (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also adventure and drama

    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…

  8. 8Purgatory

    Purgatory (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western and tv movie

    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…

  9. 9The Cowboys

    The Cowboys (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western and adventure

    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…

  10. 10The Adventures of the Wilderness Family

    The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and adventure

    The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.

  11. 11Forty 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…

  12. 12Broken Lance

    Broken Lance (1954)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and western

    Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

  13. 13True Grit

    True Grit (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and adventure

    Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

  14. 14Jubal

    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…

  15. 15Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

    Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure (1995)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and western

    A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When…

  16. 16The 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.

  17. 17The Mountain Men

    The Mountain Men (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and western

    The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes…

  18. 18The Revenant

    The Revenant (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10Also western and drama

    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.

  19. 19Last Shoot Out

    Last Shoot Out (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western and drama

    Soon after a newlywed learns that her husband had her father shot down, she flees from the Callahan ranch in fear. She's rescued by a gunman who safeguards her at a remote outpost as he staves off her husband's…

  20. 20Balto

    Balto (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10Also adventure and drama

    An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

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