Films like Dances with Wolves (1990)

Dances with Wolves (1990) is adventure, drama, western. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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The Revenant (2015)

Also adventure and drama. 7.5/10

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.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Also adventure and drama. 7.7/10

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Hostiles (2017)

Also adventure and drama. 7.0/10

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…
Young Guns (1988)

Also adventure and drama. 6.7/10

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they…
True Grit (2010)

Also adventure and drama. 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…
Far and Away (1992)

Also adventure and drama. 6.8/10

A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to…
News of the World (2020)

Also adventure and drama. 6.9/10

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.
The Cowboys (1972)

Also adventure and drama. 7.1/10

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…
Maverick (1994)

Also adventure and drama. 6.9/10

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He…
Ravenous (1999)

Also adventure and drama. 6.8/10

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its…
The Man from Snowy River (1982)

Also adventure and drama. 7.0/10

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the…
Butcher's Crossing (2023)

Also adventure and drama. 5.9/10

In the 1870s, a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a team of buffalo hunters led by a man named Miller. Together, they embark on a harrowing…
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Also adventure and drama. 8.0/10

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the…
The Way West (1967)

Also adventure and drama. 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…
El Topo (1970)

Also adventure and drama. 7.1/10

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
100 Rifles (1969)

Also adventure and drama. 5.9/10

When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war…
Little Big Man (1970)

Also adventure and drama. 7.4/10

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Slow West (2015)

Also adventure and drama. 6.7/10

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Boom Town (1940)

Also adventure and drama. 7.0/10

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes…
Old Yeller (1957)

Also adventure and drama. 6.9/10

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…
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

Also adventure and drama. 7.0/10

When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend…
Lean on Pete (2018)

Also adventure and drama. 6.9/10

Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley…
Interstellar (2014)

Also adventure and drama. 8.5/10

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an…
The Death of Robin Hood (2026)

Also adventure and drama. 6.2/10

Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman…