20 movies like A Thunder of Drums, ordered by similarity : Bugles in the Afternoon(1952), The Glory Guys(1965), Duel in the Sun(1946), The Battle at Apache Pass(1952), Texas Across the River(1966), Broken Arrow(1950), Pawnee(1957), Tumbleweeds(1925), The Tall Men(1955), Fool for Love(1985), Hostiles(2017), Fort Dobbs(1958) ...
Western
USA
1961
97 Minutes
Richard Boone George Hamilton Luana Patten Arthur O'Connell Charles Bronson Richard Chamberlain Duane Eddy James Douglas Tammy Marihugh Carol Wells Slim Pickens
captain lieutenant beautiful woman soldier native american warrior rookie melodramatic tense wild west desert fort battle romance love triangle native americans military life competition transformation love rivalry
The trials and tribulations of bitter veteran Captain Maddocks and argumentative rookie Lieutenant McQuade at a cavalry desert outpost.
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Helena Carter Hugh Marlowe Forrest Tucker George Reeves Gertrude Michael
cavalry captain native american native american chief native american warrior rival army officer brash gutsy patriotic rousing tense montana battlefield dakota territory fort rivalry demotion battle of the little bighorn love interest love triangle
After violently attacking a fellow officer Lt. Edward Garnett, cavalry Captain Kern Shafter is court martialled. Later, he rejoins the army with Custer's regiment at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, becoming a sergeant, where he runs into his old foe.
Western
USA
1965
112 Minutes
Tom Tryon Harve Presnell Senta Berger Michael Anderson Jr. James Caan Slim Pickens Wayne Rogers Andrew Duggan Peter Breck Jeanne Cooper Laurel Goodwin
general soldier beautiful woman recruit native american tyrant engaging rousing melodramatic frontier battlefield small town bar camp american indian wars leadership military life love triangle battle death
What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
Western
USA
1946
130 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore Lillian Gish Herbert Marshall Walter Huston Butterfly McQueen Charles Bickford Tilly Losch Harry Carey
orphan aunt senator outlaw rancher son passionate tense ranch desert texas love-hate relationship love triangle doomed romance cross-cultural romance family dysfunction love revenge rivalry 19th century
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.
Western
USA
1952
85 Minutes
John Lund Jeff Chandler Susan Cabot Beverly Tyler Bruce Cowling John Hudson James Best Regis Toomey Richard Egan Hugh O'Brian Palmer Lee
american pioneer love interest native american native american chief soldier engaging gory gripping intense powerful tense united states new mexico territory battlefield ranch civil war territorial disputes fight to the death rivalry
When Cochise bands together with Geronimo and other Indian tribes, Major Colton abandons his fort, heading towards Fort Sheridan, through Apache Pass. The only thing in his way are the Indians he used to call his friends.
Comedy, Western
USA
1966
101 Minutes
Dean Martin Alain Delon Joey Bishop Rosemary Forsyth Tina Marquand Peter Graves Michael Ansara Linden Chiles Andrew Prine Stuart Anderson Roy Barcroft
nobleman fiancée gunrunner native american woman native american love interest amusing brash hilarious texas louisiana wagon train country road wild west engagement native americans friendship love triangle love old west
In 1845 Texas, a Louisiana belle is courted by a wanted Spanish nobleman and a Texas brawling gunrunner but her suitors' passionate duel is interrupted by the cavalry and a Comanche attack.
Western
USA
1950
93 Minutes
James Stewart Jeff Chandler Debra Paget Basil Ruysdael Will Geer Joyce Mackenzie Arthur Hunnicutt Raymond Bramley Jay Silverheels Argentina Brunetti Robert Adler
scout native american settler renegade warrior mail carrier gritty thrilling intense united states apache territory camp arizona friendship truce war love death peace quest
Tom Jeffords tries to make peace between settlers and Apaches in Arizona territory.
Western
USA
1957
80 Minutes
George Montgomery Bill Williams Lola Albright Francis J. McDonald Robert Griffin Dabbs Greer Kathleen Freeman Charlotte Austin Ralph Moody Ann Barton Raymond Hatton
native american warrior native american chief native american woman settler uncle wagon master brash tense melodramatic american west camp wagon train prairie native americans identity crisis love triangle murder death cultural assimilation transformation
Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be with the white people. Now known as Paul... See full summary »
Western
USA
1925
89 Minutes
William S. Hart Barbara Bedford Lucien Littlefield J. Gordon Russell Richard R. Neill Jack Murphy Lillian Leighton Gertrude Claire George F. Marion James Gordon Fred Gamble
cowboy drifter love interest homesteader best friend native american tense gripping amusing cherokee strip caldwell, kan. oklahoma prairie small town saloon land rush love imprisonment love quest
The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1955
122 Minutes
Clark Gable Jane Russell Robert Ryan Cameron Mitchell Juan Garcia Harry Shannon Emile Meyer Mae Marsh
cowboy brother businessman beautiful woman native american rousing gritty texas wild west montana love triangle siblings journey frontier life quest love rivalry 1860s
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama, History, Western
USA
2017
133 Minutes
Christian Bale Rosamund Pike Wes Studi Jesse Plemons Adam Beach Rory Cochrane Peter Mullan Scott Wilson Paul Anderson Timothée Chalamet Ben Foster
native american chief soldier commanding officer widow native american traveler brutal tense gritty raw emotional gory new mexico montana desert plains fort town american indian wars native americans
In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Western
USA
1958
90 Minutes
Clint Walker Virginia Mayo Brian Keith Richard Eyer Russ Conway Michael Dante
native american comanche warrior fugitive widow son boy thrilling melodramatic suspenseful wild west farm fort frontier town on the run unlikely romance mob mentality journey wrongfully accused helping others
Eluding a sheriff's posse, an escaped man saves a farming family from a Comanche attack and escorts it to the nearby Fort Dobbs.
Comedy, Western
USA
1948
79 Minutes
Loretta Young William Holden Robert Mitchum Gary Gray Tom Tully Sara Haden Frank Ferguson Walter Baldwin Regina Wallace Frank Conlan
widower indentured servant friend son settler native american tense emotional thrilling ohio wilderness cabin settlement pioneering marriage parenthood jealousy love triangle quest love
A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.
Western
Australia
1988
99 Minutes
Tom Burlinson Sigrid Thornton Brian Dennehy Nicholas Eadie Bryan Marshall Rhys McConnochie Mark Hembrow Peter Cummins Cornelia Frances Tony Barry
cattleman love interest father banker son romantic rival tender spirited mountain cabin australia range snowy river love triangle father/daughter relationship jealousy horses love reunion forbidden love
Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend is being pursued by another man, and her father doesn't want Jim back into her life.
Western
USA
1955
102 Minutes
Robert Wagner Debra Paget Jeffrey Hunter John Lund Eduard Franz Noah Beery Jr. Virginia Leith Emile Meyer Hugh O'Brian Milburn Stone Iron Eyes Cody
surveyor military officer native american warrior love interest beautiful woman melodramatic striking wyoming military base indian territory peace treaty interracial romance indian wars jealousy forbidden love revenge transformation 1870s
In 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in-love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance.
Western
USA|Mexico
1968
95 Minutes
Glenn Ford Arthur Kennedy Dean Jagger John Anderson Paul Fix Nico Minardos Harry Dean Stanton Pilar Pellicer Parley Baer Royal Dano Ross Elliot
gunslinger trader bandit apache neighbor rival brutal melodramatic gritty wild west indian territory ranch kidnapping love triangle marriage reform search abandonment pursuit rivalry
A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him.
Western
USA
1936
56 Minutes
Dick Foran Linda Perry Edmund Cobb Milton Kibbee Tom Brower Jim Farley Edward Keane Ben Hendricks Jr. Wilfred Lucas Cliff Saum Buck Coburn
love interest man father brother stagecoach owner stagecoach driver thrilling california frontier stagecoach wild west frame-up race loss of job love triangle robbery schemes rivalry love adventure
Bids submitted to win the U.S. Mail contract for their stagecoach lines are entered by both singing cowboy Bill Harkins and the Banton brothers, Roy and Bart. During a stagecoach race to ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Western
USA
1952
81 Minutes
Jane Russell George Brent Scott Brady Forrest Tucker Andy Devine Jack Lambert John Litel Ray Teal Rory Mallinson Roy Barcroft Hollis Bane
outlaw brother marshal native american gambler saloon owner spirited sultry tense intricate oklahoma saloon small town jail desert hideout belle starr love triangle robbery gambling
In Oklahoma, outlaw Belle Starr joins the Dalton gang but she causes a romantic rivalry and a rift between the gang members, especially on the eve of the planned robbery of a bank where a posse is secretly waiting in ambush.
Western
USA
1958
80 Minutes
Ben Johnson Jan Harrison Kent Taylor Jana Davi Larry Chance Peter Mamakos Jerry Frank Barbara Parry Ed Hinton Johnny Western J. Ian Douglas
captain major colonel cavalryman wife apache fiery gripping tense thrilling fort arizona desert covered wagon massacre dangerous mission false accusations betrayal siege cross-cultural romance
At Fort Bowie, Captain Thompson favors peace talks but Major Wharton advocates war with the renegade Apaches led by Chief Victorio.