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Movies Like We of the Never Never

If you liked We of the Never Never (1982), a drama and western movie directed by Igor Auzins, 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. 1The Nightingale

    The Nightingale (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and western

    In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of…

  2. 2Quigley Down Under

    Quigley Down Under (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the…

  3. 3The Tracker

    The Tracker (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.

  4. 4The Proposition

    The Proposition (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and…

  5. 5Sweet Country

    Sweet Country (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western and drama

    In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

  6. 6The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

  7. 7The 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.

  8. 8High Ground

    High Ground (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and western

    In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a…

  9. 9Outback

    Outback (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    A young American couple’s Australian holiday takes a terrifying turn when they get lost in the outback. With only one another to rely on, the two are driven to extremes in order to stay alive in the harsh and…

  10. 10Don'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…

  11. 11Walkabout

    Walkabout (1971)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred…

  12. 12The Homesman

    The Homesman (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western and drama

    When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon…

  13. 13Soldier Blue

    Soldier Blue (1970)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western and drama

    After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie…

  14. 14Rabbit-Proof Fence

    Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

  15. 15Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

  16. 16Dead Man

    Dead Man (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and western

    On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

  17. 17Westward the Women

    Westward the Women (1951)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and…

  18. 18Hostiles

    Hostiles (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and western

    A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

  19. 19The Mountain Men

    The Mountain Men (1980)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western and drama

    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…

  20. 20Frontera

    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…

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