Movies Like Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail

If you liked Louis L'Amour's The Cherokee Trail (1981), a western and tv movie movie directed by Kieth Merrill, 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
Hombre (1967)
★ 7.1/10Also western
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.
2
Stagecoach (1966)
★ 6.1/10Also western
A group of unlikely travelling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor, a bar girl who's been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor…
3
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3/10Also western
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.
4
Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also western and tv movie
In the 1800s frontier, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When Missie encounters Grant, a handsome New England railroad executive…
5
The Way West (1967)
★ 6.1/10Also western
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on…
6
Oklahoma! (1955)
★ 6.6/10Also western
There's a box social coming up, and Curly asks Laurey if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer from the boorish ranch hand Jud instead. Meanwhile…
7
Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also 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.
8
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also western and tv movie
The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the…
9
Monte Walsh (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also western
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip…
10
The Last Wagon (1956)
★ 6.5/10Also western
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the…
11
The Claim (2000)
★ 6/10Also western
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are…
12
Love Comes Softly (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also western and tv movie
Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Widower Clark…
13
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also western
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone…
14
True Grit (1969)
★ 7.3/10Also western
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…
15
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
★ 6.3/10Also western
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a…
16
Go West (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also western
A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.
17
Surrounded (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also western
After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to free him.
18
Rawhide (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also western
At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
19
News of the World (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also 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.
20
Love's Long Journey (2005)
★ 7/10Also western and tv movie
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie…