Highest-Rated Movies about 'Frontier Life', Sort by Popularity

Pale Rider (1985), The Big Trail (1930), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), Brimstone (2016), Ravenous (1999), The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972), The Big Sky (1952), Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Frontier Life movies.

#1. Pale Rider (1985)

Storyline: A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged by a neighboring landowner intent on stealing their claims. A preacher (Clint Eastwood) rides into camp and uses all of his powers of persuasion to convince the landowner to give up his attacks on the miners.

Plot Keywords: hero, land owner, miner, marshal, dark, tense, gritty ...

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#3. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Storyline: In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they are happy living in their one room cabin. With the declaration of independence, the settlers soon find themselves at war with the British and their Indian allies. Their farm is burned out and the Martins take work with Sarah McKlennar. The war continues however as the Martins try to make a new life.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, widow, native american, patriotic, thrilling, albany, n.y. ...

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#4. Brimstone (2016)

Storyline: A triumphant epic of survival and a tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth. Our heroine is Liz (Dakota Fanning), carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher (Guy Pearce) - a diabolical zealot and her twisted nemesis. But Liz is a genuine survivor; she's no victim - a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming.

Plot Keywords: frontier woman, fugitive, priest, preacher, suspenseful, tense, thrilling ...

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#5. Ravenous (1999)

Storyline: Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort are two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature.

Plot Keywords: soldier, native american, sister, cook, cannibal, frontiersman, brutal ...

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#6. The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972)

Storyline: Teenager Ben Mockridge feels life in a Wild West farm town has nothing better to offer than horse-cart racing with other hicks, so he naively begs cattle company owner Frank Culpepper to engage him as the youngest cowboy for a long cattle trail to a fort. His mother barely notices. Ben doesn't even seem to get it when he's told to report as 'little Mary' to the old cook, whose words, "Cowboy is something you do only if you have nothing better." gradually become clear. Instead of an exciting heroic macho life, it's endless hard work, dumb chores and embarrassment, even getting literally caught with his pants down, robbed of his horse, and witnessing unpunished crimes...—KGF Vissers

Plot Keywords: teen boy, cowboy, cook, mother, cattle rustler, leader, gritty ...

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#7. The Big Sky (1952)

Storyline: Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.—Alfred Jingle

Plot Keywords: trader, indian, friend, man, cowboy, princess, spectacular ...

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#8. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

Storyline: Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and partake in the last stand at the Alamo.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: davy crockett, general, native american chief, native american warrior, settler, frontiersman, engaging ...

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#9. Canyon Passage (1946)

Storyline: In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in Jacksonville, a welter of subplots involve villains, fair ladies, romantic triangles, gambling fever, murder, a cabin-raising, and vigilantism...culminating with an Indian uprising that threatens all the settlers. No canyon in sight.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: shop owner, fiancée, banker, gambler, best friend, love interest, spirited ...

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#11. Three Bad Men (1926)

Storyline: In the 1870s, gold is discovered in the Dakota Territory, and wanted men Bull Stanley (Tom Santschi) and Mike Costigan (J. Farrell MacDonald) join thousands of other pioneers on a westward journey in search of wealth. Soon, Bull and Mike see a gang of thugs attacking Lee (Olive Borden), a young woman. They rescue her, but her father is killed during the assault, so Mike and Bull become her guardians. Before long, Bull and Mike leave their criminal pasts behind and devote themselves to Lee.

Plot Keywords: outlaw, frontier woman, father, husband, sheriff, sister, rousing ...

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#14. The Tall Men (1955)

Storyline: Two brothers, Ben and Clint, join a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. While heading for Texas they save Nella from the Indians, and she decides to ride with them. Ben and Nella start to get romantic, but Ben isn't ambitious enough for her, and she soon meets up with the boss of the cattle drive. Will she make the right choice, and, more importantly, will the cattle make it to Montana !—Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: cowboy, brother, businessman, beautiful woman, native american, rousing, gritty ...

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