News of the World

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 25 Dec 2020 · English

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.

Comes a Horseman

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 25 Oct 1978 · English

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

The Cowboys

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 13 Jan 1972 · English

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 to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage, however, neither he nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.

Far and Away

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 22 May 1992 · English

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 America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.

Rob Roy

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 13 Apr 1995 · English

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.

The Light Between Oceans

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 2 Sept 2016 · English

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Walkabout

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 1 Jul 1971 · English

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 children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 23 Apr 2015 · English

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Duel in the Sun

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 31 Dec 1946 · English

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Rooster Cogburn

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 1 Nov 1975 · English

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 killers to justice.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 4 Feb 2002 · English

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.

The Horse Whisperer

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 1 Feb 1998 · English

The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.