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Movies Like Down Where the Buffalo Go

If you liked Down Where the Buffalo Go (1988), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Ian Knox, 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. 1Annapolis

    Annapolis (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'd make it to Annapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon…

  2. 2Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

  3. 3Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  4. 4Tiger Cruise

    Tiger Cruise (2004)

    ★ 6/10Also tv movie and drama

    On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a jolly "tiger cruise" for US Navy, Marines and USNAF relatives, mainly minors ("Navy brats"). Attitudes and emotions vary…

  5. 5Jarhead 3: The Siege

    Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle…

  6. 6Girl in the Bunker

    Girl in the Bunker (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and drama

    When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.

  7. 7Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young…

  8. 8Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  9. 9Love You to Death

    Love You to Death (2019)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and tv movie

    Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.

  10. 10TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  11. 11Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

    Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When the rumored whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are revealed, the CIA readies a team of seasoned U.S. Navy SEALs for the mission of a lifetime. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin Laden is inside the compound, and…

  12. 12Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  13. 13Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

  14. 14Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  15. 15Seeds of Yesterday

    Seeds of Yesterday (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama

    The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.

  16. 16Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

  17. 17A Bramble House Christmas

    A Bramble House Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama

    While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…

  18. 18The Wings of Eagles

    The Wings of Eagles (1957)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.

  19. 19Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…

  20. 20Beast

    Beast (2026)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal…

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