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10 Best Movies Like The Cowboy Star

If you loved The Cowboy Star, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh

2003★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months o...

#2
Appaloosa

Appaloosa

2008★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow....

#3
From Noon Till Three

From Noon Till Three

1976★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorse...

#4
Forty Guns

Forty Guns

1957★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling fo...

#5
Go West

Go West

1925★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast....

#6
Gunslingers

Gunslingers

2025★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cowboy Star for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history -- and a blood-thirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king’s ransom -- soon follow. As broth...