198 films · 1934–2025
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- 2025
Air Horse One
A short documentary that follows Legacy, a prized fifteen-year-old show jumping mare, as she flies in equine business class between Florida, the Netherlands and Grand Prix events around the world.
- 2025
Azaad
An Indian period drama about Govind, a young stable hand who is punished just for riding his landlord's horses. Entrusted with a magnificent horse named Azaad, he slowly earns its trust and rides it in a local race.
- 2025
Broke
A worn-down rodeo bronc rider turned ranch hand is caught in a freak spring snowstorm, alone and separated from his horse. As he fights to survive, he looks back on the family, the love and the rides that brought him there.
- 2025
East of Wall
A modern western about a horse trainer struggling with money troubles and grief while she opens her ranch to a group of wayward teenagers.
- 2025
Iron Winter
A documentary about two young Mongolian horse herders who drive around two thousand animals across the steppe through a bitterly cold winter, learning their fathers' ways as that way of life fades.
- 2024
A Bluegrass Christmas
When a Kentucky horse sanctuary loses its biggest donor just before Christmas, Katie has to raise the money to keep her family's rescue open, with help from the donor's own son.
- 2024
Kill the Jockey
A surreal Argentine drama about Remo and Abril, two jockeys who ride for a powerful mobster. After Remo accidentally kills a valuable racehorse he vanishes into Buenos Aires, and Abril has to find him first.
- 2024
Thelma the Unicorn
Thelma is a small farm pony who dreams of being a music star. When a carrot, some pink paint and a lot of glitter make her look like a unicorn she becomes famous overnight, and has to decide whether to keep pretending.
- 2024
To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Saina, a horseback performer in Inner Mongolia, is torn between the herding traditions he grew up with and the pull of modern life as money runs short at home. He plays himself in this quiet drama.
- 2023
Aitamaako'tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun
A Canadian documentary that follows Logan Red Crow, a young Siksika woman, as she gets ready to compete in Indian Relay, a bareback horse race dominated by men.
- 2023
Ride On
Jackie Chan plays a washed-up stuntman whose best friend is Red Hare, the stunt horse he once saved from being put down. When debts threaten to take the horse away, he turns to his estranged daughter for help.
- 2023
The Cowboy and the Queen
A documentary about the unlikely friendship between American horse trainer Monty Roberts and Queen Elizabeth II, brought together by their shared love of horses.
2022Adeline
A mysterious woman appears in a small midwestern community and bring with her a horse that can heal people. Suddenly the area becomes an epicenter for miracles.
- 2022
Buko
A Czech comedy-drama about Jarmila, an ageing woman on a farm whose life takes an unexpected turn when a retired circus horse named Buko arrives. Looking after him gives her a new sense of freedom.
2022
2022The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
A story about a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, following their journey as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy’s search for home.
2021
2021Hope’s Legacy
A young woman inherits a horse ranch when her grandmother dies. This turn of events inspires her to enter into the world of competitive horse sports and the world of horses.
2021- 2021
Montana Story
Two estranged siblings come back to the family ranch in Montana as their father lies in a coma. The sister makes up her mind to take Mr. T, the family's elderly horse, away with her to a new home.
2021
2021Saving Sloane
A spoiled city girl is sent off to the country because she keeps misbehaving. There the rebellious teenager forms an unexpected bond with a horse.
2021Spirit Untamed
A young girl moves to a small town where she befriends a wild horse named Spirit that is as rebellious as she is. When a wrangler tries to capture Spirit’s herd, they work together to keep the mustangs free.
- 2020
Black Beauty
A new take on Anna Sewell's classic in which Beauty is a wild mustang mare, rounded up in Utah and brought to a horse sanctuary. There she forms a bond with a teenage girl that lasts through every chapter of her life.
- 2020
Concrete Cowboy
A troubled fifteen-year-old is sent to live with his estranged father in North Philadelphia and finds him among the city's Black urban cowboys. Inspired by the real riders of the Fletcher Street stables.
2020Dream Horse
A bartender in a small Welsh town breeds an unlikely racehorse and with no experience convinces her neighbors to chip in and raise the horse to compete with the racing elites.
- 2020
Fire on the Hill
A documentary about three Black cowboys in South Central Los Angeles who fight to rebuild The Hill, their community stable, after a mysterious fire destroys it.
2020
2020Taking the Reins
A writer goes back to her family ranch and while she is there she discovers what ended her marriage and why she stopped riding horses.
2020- 2020
Yakari, A Spectacular Journey
Yakari, a young Sioux boy who can talk to animals, leaves his village to follow the trail of Little Thunder, a legendary mustang. An animated adventure based on the much-loved comic books.
2019Ride Like a Girl
The story of a racing family of ten children, children of a racehorse trainer. In 2015 the youngest girl in the family becomes the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup.
2019- 2019
The Steed
A Mongolian children's drama. As the Russian Revolution spills over into Mongolia, a boy is separated from his horse and sets out to be reunited with him.
2019
2017A Cowgirl’s Story
While her parents are away in Afghanistan, a young woman navigates life with her grandfather. Their shared rodeo dreams and their faith help them prove that love can conquer all.
2017- 2017
Centaur
A drama from Kyrgyzstan about a quiet cinema projectionist, known as Centaur, who steals racehorses at night only to set them free.
2017
2017Lean on Pete
A teenage boy gets a summer job working with a horse trainer and there he meets and makes friends with a fading racehorse named Lean on Pete.
- 2017
Rock My Heart
Jana is seventeen and has a heart condition she was born with. When she forms an unlikely bond with an unruly black stallion, a racehorse trainer decides she should be his next jockey.
- 2017
Running Wild
A widow tries to save her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that has wandered onto her land.
- 2017
The Rider
Brady, a rising rodeo star on a South Dakota reservation, suffers a serious head injury and is told that riding again could make it worse. He has to work out who he is without the horses and the rodeo.
2016
2016
2015A Horse Called Bear
A teenage boy looses his mother unexpectedly and upon her death learns he inherited a horse he didn’t know she had. He travels to live with his grandparents and investigate the mystery.
- 2015
Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance
The same true story as Dream Horse, told as a documentary. A barmaid in a small South Wales valley town decides to breed a racehorse and talks her neighbours into chipping in, and Dream Alliance goes on to win the Welsh Grand National.
- 2015
In Harmony
Known in French as En équilibre. A horse trainer and stuntman is left in a wheelchair after his horse throws him on a film set. The insurance adjuster sent to settle his claim is drawn into his world, while he fights to get back in the saddle.
2015Palio
The oldest horse race in the world is held twice a year in the Italian city of Siena. Horses are allocated by lot four days before the race and the action is as much about strategy, bribery and corruption as it is about skill.
2015Running Forever
A young woman and her father work together to establish a relationship with one another, after years of being estranged since the girl’s mother died in the 9/11 attacks.
2015
2015
2014
2014A Fine Step
An expert horseman suffers a bad accident with his top horse and manages to overcome his injuries thanks to a young girl who works with him to rehabilitate both him and the horse.
2014Of Girls and Horses
A troubled teenage girl is sent to do an internship at a farm in the hopes of setting her straight. There she makes unexpected friends and finds a connection with the horses.
2014The Legend of Longwood
A young American girl moves to a small Irish town where she must help a ghostly black knight lift an ancient curse to save a herd of magical horses and the town itself.
2013Christmas for a Dollar
About a family that is struggling during the Depression and expecting another Christmas with no gifts. Until their father brings home a dollar as a surprise for them to spend on presents.
- 2013
Jappeloup
The true story of Pierre Durand, who gave up a career as a lawyer in the early 1980s for show jumping. With his horse Jappeloup he fails at the Los Angeles Olympics, then comes back to win in Seoul in 1988.
2013Midnight Stallion
A family is struggling to save their farm when they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest and wonder if he could give them the edge they need to defeat the odds and keep their land.
2013
2013Storm Rider
A spoiled teenage girl looses everything when her father is put in jail. Forced to live with her uncle on a farm and no horses to ride, Dani makes friends with a young mule and learns what’s really important.
- 2013
Windstorm
Known in German as Ostwind. Rebellious teenager Mika is sent to spend the holidays at her grandmother's stable as a punishment, and discovers she has a natural gift with horses, above all with a horse named Windstorm.
- 2012
Cowgirls 'n Angels
Twelve-year-old Ida keeps sneaking off to rodeos, hoping to learn something about the father she has never met. When she gets the chance to go on tour with a rodeo show, her summer changes completely.
2012
2011- 2011
Champ
A South Korean film about a jockey who loses his wife and most of his sight in a car accident. On a ranch on Jeju Island, he and his little daughter meet a bad-tempered, limping horse, and the two of them get one more chance to race.
2011Path to Glory
A movie celebrating the horses of Poland. Animals that survived decades of war, upheaval and political oppression. The history of Poland’s horses is deeply entwined with that of the Polish people themselves.
- 2011
The Cup
The true story of the 2002 Melbourne Cup, the race that stops a nation, and of Damien Oliver, the young Australian jockey who won it.
- 2011
The Greening of Whitney Brown
Whitney is a spoiled, popular Philadelphia teenager whose family suddenly runs out of money. Far from her parties and her friends, she finds a new best pal in Bob, a spirited Gypsy horse who belongs to her neighbour.
2011
2011
2010Flicka 2
Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. Everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a jet-black mustang.
2010Horse Crazy Too
When a prize foal is stolen, two young siblings & their babysitter must work together to catch the thieves before their family’s ranch goes into foreclosure. A dangerous journey lies ahead, but with a little mountain magic.
2010
2009Amazing Racer
A teenager looses her father and believes she is orphaned until she finds her mother. In reuniting with her she befriends a horse trainer that helps her find happiness.
2009The Horse Boy
Chronicles the journey of the Isaacson family as they travel through Mongolia in search of a mysterious shaman who they believe can heal their autistic son. This film delves into the strange world of autism, horses, shamanism & Mongolia.
2009The Wild Stallion
A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. Hanna visits CJ at her ranch and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
- 2009
This Way of Life
A New Zealand documentary about a horse-breeding family who live wild near the Ruahine Ranges and resist the pull of a more modern way of life.
2009
2008- 2007
Danse avec lui
Three years after a painful break-up and a bad riding fall, a Parisian architect learns to live and love again when she meets a gruff old horseman and his horse at a run-down riding centre.
2007Moondance Alexander
Inspired by a true story, Moondance Alexander is about a spirited teen who is bored with summer until she discovers an escaped pinto pony. She returns the pony to its owner and convinces him the pony is special enough to compete.
2007
2007The Wild Horse Redemption
At a prison in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, hard-core criminals are given 90 days to tame wild mustang horses. Most of the inmates who volunteer for the program have never even ridden a horse. This is their story.
2006- 2006
Lump Sugar
A South Korean film about Si-eun, a young woman who dreams of becoming a famous jockey, and her friendship with a horse.
2006
2005Dreamer: Inspired by A True Story
Inspired by the true story of a horse trainer with an empty barn and financial troubles. He and his daughter save a racehorse with a broken leg, believing that she deserves a second chance. As their family heals the horse she heals them too.
2005
2005
2005The Derby Stallion
The Derby Stallion is a movie about a 15 year old boy Patrick whose parents want him to plan his future. He falls in love with riding and dreams of winning the Grand National on his horse Rusty and trains with that goal in mind.
2005Thicker Than Water
A high-powered lawyer learns that her father had a wife before her mother and decides to learn about her fathers previous life. In doing so she meets an extended family and woman who is passionate about saving the horses on her land.
2004Hidalgo
The tale of an American pony express rider who travels to the Arabian desert with his mustang to race in the Ocean of Fire endurance race. During the race, the mustang shows his true colors against Arabian horses bred for this race.
2004The Long Shot
About a single mother who moves her family and her horse to California where she takes a job as a ranch hand at a stud farm. She decides to take a chance by entering into a competition which causes problems for her horse.
2003
2003Seabiscuit
The true story of Seabiscuit, a racehorse in the US during the great depression. Not only does Seabiscuit inspire a nation of down and out citizens, he breathes new life into the man who buys him, the man who trains him and the man who rides him.
2003Straight from the Heart
A photographer finds herself disappointed with her life and current relationship. She allows herself to be set up with a horse rancher out west. It’s initially rocky, but through a love of riding they find common ground and warm to one another.
2003Young Black Stallion
A prequel that tells the story of Neera who is separated from her father during WWII. While lost in the desert she finds a young colt who she names Shetan. An animal who will later help to restore her grandfather as a trainer.
2003Zafir
A woman’s sister is killed in an accident by a horse named Zafir and since the accident the animal has been locked in the barn. However the sister wants to ride Zafir, even against her parent’s wishes.
2002
2002
2002Virginia’s Run
The story of a 13 year old girl who looses her mother in a riding accident and is forbidden to ride by her father. In secret she has been visiting the animals and falls in love with a young colt named Stormy who takes to her instantly.
2001
2001
2000
2000- 2000
Ready to Run
A Disney Channel movie about fourteen-year-old Corrie, who dreams of being a jockey even though her mother is against it. She can talk with her horse Thunder Jam, a fast runner who is terrified of the starting gate.
1999
1999
1999
1999
1998
1998
1998
1998
1997Pit Pony
Set early in 20th century Nova Scotia, Pit Pony is about 10 year old Willie, the son of a coal miner. His father is injured, so he is forced into the mines to support the family. His bond with a pit pony helps him make it through the tough time.
1997
1996
1995A Horse for Danny
A horse trainer facing tough competition is convinced by his daughter to put faith into an animal she is believes will be a winner. They end up in a bitter struggle with the previous owners over the animal.
1995
1995In Pursuit Of Honor
A group of cavalry men defy orders to destroy hundreds of the army’s horses and head for the Canadian border to save them. Caught up in the moment, the soldiers neglect to consider the consequences of their rash and brave actions.
1995Something to Talk About
Grace is managing her father’s riding-stable and discovers that her husband is having an affair. After confronting him she goes to her sister’s house to make up her mind, thus causing a stir in her parent’s marriage, too.
1995
1994
1993
1993
1992
1992
1991
1990
1990
1990
1989Summer of the Colt
A story of three children spending the summer with their grandfather on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina. Each child has their own ups and downs compounded by adapting to their proud grandfather, they all learn a lot about themselves and each other during that summer.
1988- 1988
Oracion
A Japanese racing drama about a colt born on a small ranch in Hokkaido and named Oracion, the Spanish word for prayer. A struggling businessman buys him for his teenage daughter, with his hopes pinned on the Japanese Derby.
1988Return to Snowy River
Sequel to The Man From Snowy River, when Jim comes home from herding the horses he caught he finds life different in Snowy River. His girlfriend has a new suitor and the locals are being pushed out of the high country.
1986
1985
1985Legend
A classic tale of good and evil. Darkness personified wants to bring everlasting night by killing the unicorns. Jack becomes involved when darkness takes the woman he loves. He must save the unicorns and his girl to save the light.
1985
1985
1984Champions
A true story about a British steeplechase jockey who discovers he has cancer while on vacation in Kentucky. He forces himself into harsh treatments, beating the disease and going on to race again in the 1981 Grand National.
1984The Red Fury
About a boy who falls off a train and ends up in the care of an old drunk. The boy suffers racial prejudice at the hands of white town folk, so the drunk gives up the sauce, defends the boy and teaches him about horses.
1983
1983
1983The Black Stallion Returns
The saga continues as The Black is taken back by his original owners. Alec stows away on a plane and follows them to Morocco. As he chases his horse through Morocco he makes some highly unlikely friends.
1982
1982
1979The Black Stallion
About a boy named Alec who gets into an accident at sea. Only the boy and an Arabian stallion survive, stranded on an island. They grow close and when Alec returns home he brings his horse with him.
1979
1978Casey’s Shadow
The tale of a grumpy racehorse trainer and his three sons. The oldest son returns from auction with a pregnant mare and convinces his father that she is worth keeping. As the youngster grows he becomes a potential champion.
1978International Velvet
The tale of an American girl who becomes orphaned and is sent to England to live with her Aunt. She saves a young foal who she later takes to compete for Britain in the Olympic three-day event.
1977Blue Fire Lady
About a girl who dreams of working with horses despite the fact that her mother died in a horse-related accident. Defying her father she takes a job at the racetrack and promptly falls in love with a troubled horse.
1977
1977The Littlest Horse Thieves
About a coal mine that decides to mechanize their process and destroy their pit ponies. Three young children steal the horses to save them, but their plan is foiled and the mine owners must decide the right course of action.
1976- 1976
Mustang Country
Set in 1925 on the Montana-Canada border. An old rancher and former rodeo star, out to catch an elusive mustang called Shoshone, meets a runaway boy, and the two go after the wild stallion together. Joel McCrea's last major film.
- 1975
Bite the Bullet
A western set in 1906 about a gruelling 700-mile cross-country horse race with a winner-take-all prize, and what it does to the mixed bunch of riders who enter. With Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen and James Coburn.
- 1975
Ride a Wild Pony
A Disney film set in a small Australian town between the wars. Scott, a poor farm boy, and Josie, a rich rancher's daughter who has had polio, both love the same pony, and the whole town gets drawn into deciding who it belongs to.
1974- 1973
The Red Pony
A television version of John Steinbeck's novel, with Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara, about a ranch boy who becomes deeply attached to a newborn colt.
1972Justin Morgan Had a Horse
A story about the foundation sire for the Morgan breed, a runt named Little Bub. Joel knows the animal is special and is given the task of breaking him. To everyone’s surprise, Little Bub proves to be quite a horse.
- 1971
Black Beauty
A British version of Anna Sewell's novel. Black Beauty is born on an English farm and given to a boy named Joe, then taken away and passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel.
1971
1969Run Wild, Run Free
A story about a boy from the west of England has been mute since he was three. He spends most of his time roaming the moors alone until he meets a white pony with blue eyes. He is also befriended by retired Colonel, a girl and a falcon and together they help him to enjoy being around people.
1968
1966
1966- 1966
The Appaloosa
Marlon Brando plays a buffalo hunter whose beautiful Appaloosa horse catches the eye of a powerful Mexican bandit. Also released as Southwest to Sonora.
1964The Tattooed Police Horse
About a racing trotter called Jolly Rogers who doesn’t want to trot, he really only wants to gallop. Should he go for the galloping he loves or do what’s expected of him, what is a trotter to do?
1963
1961- 1961
The Misfits
A newly divorced woman in Nevada falls in with an ageing cowboy and his friends, and is horrified when she joins them on a trip to round up wild mustangs for profit. With Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.
- 1960
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Disney's Oscar-winning documentary about Nautical, a palomino who became a show jumper and won team gold at the 1959 Pan American Games.
1958
1957
1955
1954
1954
1953Born to the Saddle
The story of a young trainer who takes a job working for the man who murdered his father, to exact revenge. A mutual love of horses forces a bond between the two men as they train a fast quarter horse named Blue Chip.
1953
1950Francis the Talking Mule
Francis is a very special mule – he can talk. This is the story of his adventures as the army mule & the soldier who winds up looking like a lunatic because of him. Through the hilarity, Francis is busy uncovering a spy mission.
1949
1949
1949- 1948
Green Grass of Wyoming
The third Flicka film. The wild white stallion Thunderhead is stealing mares from the local ranches, while Ken McLaughlin spends the family's money on a trotter named Crown Jewel and trains her for harness racing.
1948- 1946
Black Beauty
A loose version of Anna Sewell's story set in 1880s England. Young Anne is given a black colt for her birthday, names him Black Beauty, and the two grow up side by side.
- 1946
My Pal Trigger
A Roy Rogers musical western that tells how Roy came to have his famous horse Trigger, and of the faithful bond between them. With Dale Evans and Gabby Hayes.
- 1946
Smoky
The second film of Will James's novel Smoky the Cowhorse. A drifting cowboy with a past he keeps to himself takes a job on a Utah ranch and slowly wins the trust of a wild horse named Smoky.
1945- 1944
Home in Indiana
A teenager with a knack for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana and plans to run away, until he comes across a harness racing track and falls for the sport.
1944
1943
1942
1940
1939- 1934
Broadway Bill
Frank Capra's comedy-drama about a man stuck running his father-in-law's paper-box factory who would much rather be training Broadway Bill, his Thoroughbred racehorse, and the sister-in-law who believes in them both.