100 Films for Horse Lovers
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1. Into the West (1992)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Rúaidhrí Conroy
Votes: 3,183 | Gross: $4.79M
2. Hidalgo (2004)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson, Louise Lombard
Votes: 85,539 | Gross: $67.29M
3. Seabiscuit (2003)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, History, Sport
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Cooper
Votes: 76,781 | Gross: $120.28M
4. Phar Lap (1983)
PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story of a New Zealand racehorse that became a champion, with the help of a local stable-boy.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Tom Burlinson, Judy Morris, Martin Vaughan, Celia De Burgh
Votes: 1,967
5. Secretariat (2010)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis
Votes: 30,564 | Gross: $59.71M
6. Run Wild, Run Free (1969)
G | 100 min | Drama, Family
Philip Ransome, a boy from the west of England about ten-years-old, has been mute since age three and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure. One day, he ... See full summary »
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: John Mills, Gordon Jackson, Sylvia Syms, Mark Lester
Votes: 485
7. The Red Pony (1949)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Family, Western
A ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic results.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 1,222
8. Misty (1961)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Family
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island, and then auctions off the colts and yearlings to thin out the herd. A young brother and sister, ... See full summary »
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: David Ladd, Arthur O'Connell, Pam Smith, Anne Seymour
Votes: 379
9. Black Beauty (1971)
G | 106 min | Drama, Family, Western
When farmer Evan's mare has a fine son, he promises the black stallion to his son Joe. The youngster enjoy growing up as playmates. Alas, once the good squire is buried, his mean heir, who ... See full summary »
Director: James Hill | Stars: Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence, Uschi Glas
Votes: 1,154
10. Flicka (2006)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Katy claims a wild horse as her own -- an effort to prove to her father that she is capable of taking over the family horse ranch one day.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw, Maria Bello, Ryan Kwanten
Votes: 8,508 | Gross: $21.00M
11. My Friend Flicka (1943)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Drama, Family
Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell
Votes: 1,053
12. Shergar (1999)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a young stable boy runs away from reform school, he befriends another fugitive, champion racehorse Shergar, kidnapped by the Irish Republican Army for ransom but now on the loose. Can the lad elude the abductors and rescue the horse?
Director: Dennis C. Lewiston | Stars: Alan Barker, Billy Boyle, Stephen Brennan, Gary Cady
Votes: 510
13. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 8,002
14. International Velvet (1978)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Velvet's orphaned niece Sarah follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman
Votes: 1,640
15. The Electric Horseman (1979)
PG | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson
Votes: 10,297 | Gross: $61.80M
16. The Horse Whisperer (1998)
PG-13 | 169 min | Drama, Romance, Western
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 43,529 | Gross: $75.38M
17. Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
118 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance. American general Patton could save them but first he asks to see them perform.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert
Votes: 801
18. Jappeloup (2013)
Not Rated | 130 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A horse with amazing courage and a big heart.
Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Daniel Auteuil, Lou de Laâge
Votes: 1,842
19. Dreamer (2005)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Cale Crane catalyzes the rescue and rehabilitation of Sonador, a race horse with a broken leg.
Director: John Gatins | Stars: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Oded Fehr, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 14,085 | Gross: $32.70M
20. Touching Wild Horses (2002)
PG | 91 min | Drama
After a car accident that claimed his father and sister's lives and left his mother in a coma, a boy is sent to live with his reclusive aunt on Sable Island, a world-renowned wild horse preserve.
Director: Eleanore Lindo | Stars: Mark Rendall, Jane Seymour, Charles Martin Smith, Gloria Slade
Votes: 511
21. Of Horses and Men (2013)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Charlotte Bøving, Johann Pall Oddson, Kristbjörg Kjeld
Votes: 3,495 | Gross: $0.01M
22. A Sunday Horse (2016)
108 min | Biography, Family, Sport
After a near-fatal accident, on a horse the experts thought was nothing special, a determined rider from the wrong side of the tracks defies all the odds to pursue her dreams of winning a national jumping championship.
Director: Vic Armstrong | Stars: Nikki Reed, Ryan Merriman, Cassi Thomson, Linda Hamilton
Votes: 1,074
23. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 165,605 | Gross: $79.88M
24. The Black Stallion (1979)
G | 118 min | Adventure, Family, Sport
After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse
Votes: 14,039
25. The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Family
A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various daredevil adventures.
Director: Robert Dalva | Stars: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode
Votes: 2,395 | Gross: $9.80M
26. Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)
111 min | Drama
A story of love for horses and the love for two women. The main part of the film is set in Germany and Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s, in the years leading up to WW1 and the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Eva Bartok, Curd Jürgens, Martin Benrath, Sonja Sutter
Votes: 32
27. Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau (1954)
109 min | Drama
The direct sequel to "Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline (1954)", the film tells the story of the German cavalry officer Godeysen in the years directly leading up to, and ... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Dagmar Altrichter, Martin Benrath, Friedrich Domin, Otto Friebel
Votes: 20
28. Virginia's Run (2002)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Family
A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Lindze Letherman, Rachel Skarsten, Joanne Whalley
Votes: 807
29. Champions (1984)
PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A British steeple chase jockey who, in the late 1970s, was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than succumb to the disease, however, Bob stages a miraculous recovery and goes on to win the 1981 Grand National steeplechase on the horse Aldaniti.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: John Hurt, Gregory Jones, Mick Dillon, Ann Bell
Votes: 749 | Gross: $0.17M
30. Blue Fire Lady (1977)
96 min | Drama, Family
A girl's love of horses meets with her father's disapproval.
Director: Ross Dimsey | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Mark Holden, Peter Cummins, Marion Edward
Votes: 93
31. The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow.... See full summary »
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,130
32. Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Drama, Family
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell
Votes: 409
33. The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece Margaret come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 860
34. The Man from Snowy River (1982)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1880s Australia, after young Jim Craig's father dies, he takes a job at the Harrison cattle ranch, where he is forced to become a man.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan, Tommy Dysart
Votes: 10,032 | Gross: $20.66M
35. The White Pony (1999)
G | 93 min | Family, Fantasy
Leah is eager to visit her uncle's ranch in Ireland, until her attempt to ride her cold cousin Shannon's horse results in Silky being injured and she is ordered not to ride again. When she ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Kelly | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Warwick Davis, Carly Anderson, Victoria Farrer
Votes: 229
36. A Horse Called Bear (2015)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Family
After his mother unexpectedly dies, 17-year-old Ethan discovers he is the owner of his mother's horse - a horse he never even knew existed. He travels cross country to live with his ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Knudsen | Stars: Nicholas Ryan Gibbs, Wayne E. Brown, Austin Farnsworth, Katelyn Grace Farnsworth
Votes: 202
37. A Horse for Summer (2015)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Family
When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Director: Nancy Criss | Stars: Dean Cain, Lee Meriwether, Christopher Atkins, Chalet Lizette Brannan
Votes: 212
38. Christmas for a Dollar (2013)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
A family struggling to get by during the Depression expects another presentless Christmas until the father brings home a dollar for them to spend on presents.
Director: John Lyde | Stars: Brian Krause, Nancy Stafford, Danielle C. Ryan, Heather Beers
Votes: 707
39. Moondance Alexander (2007)
G | 94 min | Drama, Family
Moondance (Kay Panabaker) is faced with her father's passing and her overprotective mother (Lori Loughlin). When she finds a lost horse and discovers his abilities, she convinces his owner (Don Johnson) to train them to compete.
Director: Michael Damian | Stars: Kay Panabaker, Don Johnson, Lori Loughlin, James Best
Votes: 1,455 | Gross: $0.04M
40. Windstorm (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Mika is sent to spend the summer at her strict grandmother's horse farm. She is hesitant at first, but when she meets the wild stallion Ostwind, Mika discovers her amazing horse whispering powers.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hanna Binke, Marvin Linke, Cornelia Froboess, Tilo Prückner
Votes: 2,160
41. A Horse Story (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Family, Fantasy
When Monica's horse, Champion, breaks horse tradition and reveals to her that horses can talk, Monica helps him figure out what kind of horse he wants to be when he grows up and ultimately discovers her own path as well.
Director: John Rogers | Stars: Sarah Lieving, Aaron Johnson Araza, Jesse Bell, Joe Bell
Votes: 113
42. Windstorm 2 (2015)
103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
As Mika returns to the farm for the summer, she finds a wild white horse in the forest. When one day, she spots a mysterious young man trying to tame the animal, that Mika believes to be a unicorn, Mika and the stranger strike a deal.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hanna Binke, Jannis Niewöhner, Marvin Linke, Amber Bongard
Votes: 1,149
43. A Horse for Christmas (2015)
TV-G | 88 min | Family
After being estranged since her mother's death in the 9/11 attacks, both daughter and father must work together to re-establish their relationship.
Directors: Dan Garcia, Mike Mayhall | Stars: Martin Kove, Jaimie Steck, Mike Mayhall, Chase Victoria
Votes: 66
44. Amazing Racer (2009)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Family, Sport
The death of a teenager's father leaves her orphaned until she discovers the mother she never knew. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer. Together they win races and form new bonds that lead her back to happiness.
Director: Frank E. Johnson | Stars: Julianne Michelle, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Joanna Pacula
Votes: 809
45. Midnight Stallion (2013)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, Family
15 year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When the family discovers a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers. Kris Kristofferson and Joedelle Ferland star in this heartwarming and inspiring tale that celebrates the spirit of family and the amazing courage and determination it takes to ... See full summary »
Director: William Dear | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Jodelle Ferland, Chelah Horsdal, Matt Mazur
Votes: 443
46. Black Beauty (1994)
G | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The fates of horses, and the people who own and command them, are revealed as Black Beauty narrates the circle of his life.
Director: Caroline Thompson | Stars: Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Docs Keepin Time, Alan Cumming
Votes: 10,678 | Gross: $4.63M
47. The Horsemen (1971)
PG | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Drama depicting rural life in contemporary Afghanistan and the Afghani people's love for an ancient traditional sport similar to horseback polo.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Peter Jeffrey
Votes: 1,327 | Gross: $0.07M
48. Uma (1941)
128 min | Drama
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Chieko Takehisa, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kaoru Futaba
Votes: 237
49. Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer (2009)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Family
A burdened young man finds a troubled horse and contacts a South African horse whisperer for help. The horse whisperer leads the pair down a path of redemption where they heal each other. Inspired by actual events.
Director: Regardt van den Bergh | Stars: Danny Keogh, Quentin Krog, Leán van den Bergh, Joanie Combrink
Votes: 121
50. The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
G | 104 min | Drama, Family
Three young chldren set about rescuing unwanted pit ponies that are due to be sent to a slaughter house.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Alastair Sim, Peter Barkworth, Maurice Colbourne, Susan Tebbs
Votes: 457
51. Sylvester (1985)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Family
Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to train a rogue horse she names Sylvester and turn him into an eventing champion.
Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Melissa Gilbert, Michael Schoeffling, Constance Towers
Votes: 503 | Gross: $0.39M
52. The Silver Brumby (1993)
G | 93 min | Drama, Family
A mother tells her daughter a fable about the prince of the brumbies, brumby being a term for the feral horses of Australia, who must find its place among its kind, while one man makes it his mission to capture it and tame it.
Director: John Tatoulis | Stars: Caroline Goodall, Russell Crowe, Amiel Daemion, Johnny Raaen
Votes: 1,260
53. Running Free (1999)
G | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Chase Moore, Maria Geelbooi, Arie Verveen, Jan Decleir
Votes: 728 | Gross: $0.10M
54. The Legend of Longwood (2014)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young girl moves from New York to a mythical village in Ireland.
Director: Lisa Mulcahy | Stars: Lucy Morton, Thekla Reuten, Fiona Glascott, Sean Mahon
Votes: 448
55. Smoky (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Western
The story of the indestructible bond between a cowboy and a wild stallion.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Fess Parker, Diana Hyland, Katy Jurado, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 269
56. Dead Cert (1974)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies... See full summary »
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Nina Thomas
Votes: 234
57. Danny (1979)
G | 90 min | Drama, Family
A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.
Director: Gene Feldman | Stars: Page Feldman, Rebecca Page, Janet Zarish, Barbara Jean Earhardt
Votes: 135
58. Heureux qui comme Ulysse... (1970)
90 min | Comedy
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Colpi | Stars: Fernandel, Rellys, Mireille Audibert, Gilberte Rivet
Votes: 349
59. The Tattooed Police Horse (1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, Family
Jolly Rogers is a trotting race horse who only wants to gallop.
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Stars: Keith Andes, Stan Bergstein, William Hilliard, Sandy Sanders
Votes: 59
60. Bush Christmas (1983)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Family
In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen ... See full summary »
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: John Ewart, John Howard, Mark Spain, James Wingrove
Votes: 408
61. Summer of the Colt (1989)
Not Rated | 100 min | Family, Drama
This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, ... See full summary »
Director: André Melançon | Stars: Héctor Alterio, China Zorrilla, Alexandra London-Thompson, Juan De Benedictis
Votes: 133
62. Devushka i Grand (1982)
94 min | Drama, Sport
Marina is a girl who saves a colt from being put down because of a trauma, and she gives him the name - Grand.
Director: Viktor Sadovsky | Stars: Marina Dyuzheva, Aristarkh Livanov, Viktor Yevgrafov, Ernst Romanov
Votes: 159
63. Storm Rider (2013)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
When her father is put into jail, the spoiled teenager Dani loses everything. Forced to live with her uncle Sam on a farm without horses to ride and to train a sad Dani takes care of a young mule and learns what really counts.
Director: Craig Clyde | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, Danielle C. Ryan, Jacob Buster
Votes: 1,307
64. Zafir (2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Family
Anna's sister Lena was killed in an accident by the horse Zafir. The horse has since the accident been shut up in a barn, but Anna would like to ride the horse even though the parents are against it.
Director: Malene Vilstrup | Stars: Rose Marie Hermannsen, Katrine Schnoor, Henrik Lykkegaard, Claus Bue
Votes: 125
65. A Fine Step (2014)
PG | 111 min | Drama
When an expert horseman (Luke Perry) suffers a traumatic accident with his top horse, he overcomes his injury with the help of a young girl who helps rehabilitate him and the horse
Director: Jonathan Meyers | Stars: Luke Perry, Armand Assante, Cameron Daddo, Anna Claire Sneed
Votes: 403
66. Of Girls and Horses (2014)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Alex is a 16-year-old misfit and high school dropout. In a final attempt to set Alex straight, her adoptive mother signs her up for an internship at a farm where Alex meets thirty-something... See full summary »
Director: Monika Treut | Stars: Ceci Chuh, Alissa Wilms, Vanida Karun, Ellen Grell
Votes: 284
67. Dark Horse (1992)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Family
A troubled girl, sentenced to community service on a ranch, bonds with a horse there. Her folks suggest that she enters the championship, but both she and the horse get seriously injured in a car accident.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Mimi Rogers, Ari Meyers, Donovan Leitch Jr.
Votes: 909
68. White Mane (1953)
Approved | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Clan-Clan, Pascal Lamorisse
Votes: 2,319
69. All the Pretty Horses (2000)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.
Director: Billy Bob Thornton | Stars: Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz, Henry Thomas, Angelina Torres
Votes: 15,655 | Gross: $15.53M
70. The Strawberry Roan (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Music, Western
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gloria Henry, Jack Holt
Votes: 155
71. Amanda (1996)
PG | 83 min | Drama, Family
A small boy is hurt by a horse on his father's ranch and he refuses to even be near one ever again. When a storyteller called Seven arrives with his huge imposing horse Amanda, everything changes.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Dennis Haysbert, Alice Krige, Chris Mulkey
Votes: 157
72. Florian (1940)
91 min | Drama
This film is (very) loosely based on the book by Austrian author Felix Salten. It follows the life of the Lippizaner stallion Florian. Of special notice is the time when he pulled Emperor Franz Joseph's carriage.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 100
73. The Littlest Outlaw (1955)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Family
Little Pablito is the 10-year-old son of a cruel horse trainer who's responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Joseph Calleia, Rodolfo Acosta, Andrés Velázquez
Votes: 311
74. Het paard van Sinterklaas (2005)
G | 95 min | Drama, Family
There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Saint Nicholas; Winky just asks him for a horse. Then everything will work out alright. Or will it?
Director: Mischa Kamp | Stars: Ebbie Tam, Aaron Wan, Hanyi Han, Jan Decleir
Votes: 1,282
75. Wind Dancer (1993)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family
When a young girl is injured by a riding accident, she overcomes her injury with the help of her family and her beloved horse.
Director: Craig Clyde | Stars: Mel Harris, Matt McCoy, Raeanin Simpson, Brian Keith
Votes: 242
76. 50 to 1 (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
Based on the inspiring true story of Mine That Bird, a misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies for the 2009 Kentucky Derby.
Director: Jim Wilson | Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, William Devane, Madelyn Deutch
Votes: 2,243 | Gross: $1.06M
77. Waar is het paard van Sinterklaas? (2007)
G | 90 min | Family
Winky is the happiest girl in the world because she gets to take care of Santa's horse, Amerigo; only it turns out not to be as easy as she thought it would be. Amerigo escapes and Winky has to find him back before Santa returns.
Director: Mischa Kamp | Stars: Ebbie Tam, Aaron Wan, Naomi Sapoen, Esmay Lee Ann
Votes: 466
78. Trigger (2006)
78 min | Family
A warm, dramatic adventure story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.
Director: Gunnar Vikene | Stars: Ann Kristin Sømme, Sven Wollter, Anneke von der Lippe, Adele Karoline Dahl
Votes: 185
79. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
G | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Thrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora Webster tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Schoeffling, Cliff Robertson, Dylan Kussman
Votes: 5,866 | Gross: $7.30M
80. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.
Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook | Stars: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi, Chopper Bernet
Votes: 85,337 | Gross: $73.28M
81. The Great Dan Patch (1949)
Passed | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Story of the legendary trotting horse Dan Patch.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell, Ruth Warrick, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 260
82. Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
Approved | 71 min | Drama
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse (Gypsy Prince) enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Vera Miles, Margaret Sheridan, Arthur Shields
Votes: 48
83. Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
Not Rated | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Set in 1910 in Australia, the film follows the story of a 14 year old motherless youth, stricken with Polio and entering the forbidding world of adults.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe, Alexander Outhred, Frankie J. Holden
Votes: 648
84. Comanche (2000)
29 min | Short, Drama, History
The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse named Comanche.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Wilford Brimley, Angie Dickinson, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 62
85. King of the Wind (1990)
PG | 103 min | Adventure
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel, evil and good and thus begins the life of Sham.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Richard Harris, Glenda Jackson, Frank Finlay, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 224
86. Of Women and Horses (2011)
101 min | Drama, Sport
Enraged by the sale of the vaulting horse that she'd been promised as hers to ride, Gracieuse, a talented rider, dumps her job at a stable. She starts over again by accepting work as a ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Mazuy | Stars: Marina Hands, Bruno Ganz, Josiane Balasko, Amanda Harlech
Votes: 270
87. Der eiserne Gustav (1958)
102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-drawn carriage. To prove what he and his horse are capable of, he starts a trip from Berlin to Paris.
Director: Georg Hurdalek | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lucie Mannheim, Ernst Schröder, Karin Baal
Votes: 219
88. Catch the Dream (2013)
135 min | Drama
The story of Denmark's most famous racehorse and the family behind it.
Director: Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis | Stars: Bjarne Henriksen, Kirsten Lehfeldt, Henrik Vestergaard, Iben Dorner
Votes: 335
89. Das Pferd auf dem Balkon (2012)
90 min | Family
Mika doesn't know much about people, but he would like to have friends. One night he hears a neighing. There is actually a horse on the balcony of the neighboring flat. The horse belongs to Sascha, who is in big trouble.
Director: Hüseyin Tabak | Stars: Enzo Gaier, Andreas Kiendl, Nora Tschirner, Natasa Paunovic
Votes: 162
90. Die Mädels vom Immenhof (1955)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1954, after their flight from East Prussia following WWII, orphaned sister Angela, Barbara (Dick), and Brigitte (Dalli) have settled with their Oma (Grandmother) Jantzen near Eutin in ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Schleif | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Christiane König, Margarete Haagen
Votes: 390
91. Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)
94 min | Comedy, Family
The story is set around 1956, two years after the first film. What was menacing then has become bitter truth: The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, ... See full summary »
Director: Volker von Collande | Stars: Angelika Meissner, Heidi Brühl, Paul Klinger, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 274
92. Ruffian (2007 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A look at the life of the thoroughbred filly that dominated horse racing in the early 1970s.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Sam Shepard, Frank Whaley, Mark Adam, Lisa Arnold
Votes: 507
93. The Colt (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 80 min | Action, Drama, History
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, ... See full summary »
Director: Yelena Lanskaya | Stars: Ryan Merriman, Steve Bacic, William MacDonald, Darcy Belsher
Votes: 567
94. Pit Pony (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
A young boy working in Nova Scotia's treacherous coal mines in the early 20th century finds a friend in ones of the ponies used to haul coal up from the tunnels to be used at the railway station and the steel mill.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Ben Rose-Davis, Richard Donat, Jennie Raymond, Andrew Keilty
Votes: 297
95. Janka (1990 TV Movie)
172 min | Adventure, Family
The adventures of the Polish girl Janna with her horse.
Director: Janusz Leski | Stars: Agnieszka Krukówna, Tadeusz Horvath, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Joanna Zólkowska
Votes: 50
96. Lean on Pete (2017)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 13,946 | Gross: $1.16M
97. Immenhof - Das Abenteuer eines Sommers (2019)
105 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
After the death of their father three sisters, sixteen year old Lou, Charly who is in her early twenties and Emmie who is a mere child, have to try and run the family's horse farm between ... See full summary »
Director: Sharon von Wietersheim | Stars: Leia Holtwick, Moritz Bäckerling, Heiner Lauterbach, Valerie Huber
Votes: 257
98. The Mustang (2019)
R | 96 min | Drama
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon
Votes: 14,480 | Gross: $5.04M
99. Ride Like a Girl (2019)
PG | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Director: Rachel Griffiths | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Brooke Satchwell, Anneliese Apps
Votes: 4,677
100. Mazeppa (1993)
111 min | Drama
Based on Lord Byron's poem "Mazeppa" from 1819 and revolving around the painter Théodore Géricault, this unclassifiable equestrian piece by famous horse trainer and equestrian spectacle showrunner Bartabas takes art to another level.
Director: Bartabas | Stars: Miguel Bosé, Bartabas, Brigitte Marty, Eva Schakmundes
Votes: 282
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