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Movies Like The Prairie

If you liked The Prairie (1969), a movie directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, 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 Man from Laramie

    The Man from Laramie (1955)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted life of a local ranching family whose…

  2. 2Duel at Diablo

    Duel at Diablo (1966)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

  3. 3The Last Wagon

    The Last Wagon (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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…

  4. 4Little Big Man

    Little Big Man (1970)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

  5. 5Backlash

    Backlash (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets…

  6. 6Hostiles

    Hostiles (2017)

    ★ 7/10

    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.

  7. 7Soldier Blue

    Soldier Blue (1970)

    ★ 6.8/10

    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…

  8. 8Rio Conchos

    Rio Conchos (1964)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of…

  9. 9The Way West

    The Way West (1967)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  10. 10The Indian Fighter

    The Indian Fighter (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

  11. 11Hondo

    Hondo (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

  12. 12Geronimo: An American Legend

    Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

    ★ 6.3/10

    The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the…

  13. 13True Grit

    True Grit (2010)

    ★ 7.3/10

    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. 14A Man Called Horse

    A Man Called Horse (1970)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He…

  15. 15Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves (1990)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…

  16. 16Bone Tomahawk

    Bone Tomahawk (2015)

    ★ 6.9/10

    During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the…

  17. 17The White Buffalo

    The White Buffalo (1977)

    ★ 6/10

    In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns…

  18. 18Rooster Cogburn

    Rooster Cogburn (1975)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's…

  19. 19Stolen Women, Captured Hearts

    Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too…

  20. 20Dead Man

    Dead Man (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10

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

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