Prairie/Frontier Movies
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1. Little House on the Prairie (2005)
TV-PG | 255 min | Drama, Family
Little House on the Prairie is a TV miniseries based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Stars: Cameron Bancroft, Erin Cottrell, Kyle Chavarria, Danielle C. Ryan
Votes: 660
2. Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991 TV Movie)
G | 98 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Votes: 2,374
3. Skylark (1993 TV Movie)
G | 95 min | Drama
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Christopher Bell
Votes: 1,100
4. Sarah, Plain & Tall: Winter's End (1999 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
On a cold winter day a mysterious stranger shows up at the Witting Farm. He is John Witting, the father of Jacob Witting who abandoned Jacob and his mother when Jacob was little. Jacob is ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Jack Palance, George Hearn
Votes: 1,032
5. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Glenn Close, Jena Malone, Bruce McGill, Meat Loaf
Votes: 597
6. Secret of Giving (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Western
As Christmas approaches, a single mother (played by Reba McEntire) struggles to raise her son and keep up the payments on her Oregon ranch, which is difficult since she's heavily in debt. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Reba McEntire, Thomas Ian Griffith, Ronny Cox, Devon Alan
Votes: 352
7. Love's Christmas Journey (2011 TV Movie)
TV-G | 171 min | Drama, Family, Romance
While mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King (Natalie Hall) visits her brother Aaron Davis (Greg Vaughan) and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Natalie Hall, JoBeth Williams, Greg Vaughan, Dylan Bruce
Votes: 828
8. Love Begins (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Family, Western
A traveling man (Wes Brown) falls in love with a woman (Julie Mond) who runs a farm with her sister.
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Wes Brown, Julie Mond, Abigail Mavity, Jere Burns
Votes: 1,282
9. Love's Everlasting Courage (2011 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Western
In the early west, a young husband's trials in raising his child after his wife's unexpected death.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Wes Brown, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner, Julie Mond
Votes: 1,039
10. Love Comes Softly (2003 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A young woman on her way to a new life in the 1800's suddenly finds herself a widow. Now she must live with a recently widowed young man and his daughter. Can any of them find love again?
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Dale Midkiff, Corbin Bernsen, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 6,968
11. Love's Enduring Promise (2004 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Family, Western
The Davis family saga continues as Missie's romance with a wealthy surveyor is interrupted by her father's life-threatening accident. However, the mysterious stranger who begins helping them makes Missie second-guess her true feelings.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: January Jones, Logan Bartholomew, Dale Midkiff, Katherine Heigl
Votes: 3,651
12. Love's Long Journey (2005 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Family, Western
Newlywed settlers (Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew) face hardship as they build new lives.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, William Morgan Sheppard, James Tupper
Votes: 2,383
13. Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
PG | 87 min | Drama, Family, Western
Tragedy tests the faith and love of a family of pioneers as they carve out a life on the frontier.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Logan Bartholomew, Frank McRae
Votes: 2,048 | Gross: $0.25M
14. Love's Unending Legacy (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A widow (Erin Cottrell) and her son return home to be near her parents.
Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith
Votes: 1,742
15. Love's Unfolding Dream (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Family, Western
Belinda Tyler struggles to choose between her career aspirations as a doctor and her feelings for a New York lawyer who wants a traditional wife.
Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Erin Cottrell, Scout Taylor-Compton, Dale Midkiff, Robert Pine
Votes: 1,434
16. Love Takes Wing (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Family, Romance, Western
A doctor (Sarah Jones) helps townspeople who fear a mysterious illness.
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips | Stars: Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 1,506
17. Love Finds a Home (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Western
A frontier doctor (Sarah Jones) clashes with a nursemald (Patty Duke) while caring for the woman's pregnant daughter inlaw (Haylle Duf).
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Sarah Jones, Haylie Duff, Jordan Bridges, Patty Duke
Votes: 1,175
18. When Calls the Heart (2013 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.
Director: Michael Landon Jr. | Stars: Maggie Grace, Stephen Amell, Poppy Drayton, Daniel Sharman
Votes: 2,249
19. Christy (1994 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
A young teacher comes to the impoverished mountain region of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in 1912 and tries to make a difference. Based on the best-selling novel by Catherine Marshall.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Kellie Martin, Tyne Daly, Randall Batinkoff, Tess Harper
Votes: 464
20. Seasons of Love (1999)
240 min | Drama
Thomas Linthorne is a farmer, who, with his bride, Kate, settles a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866. Linthorne is a dynamic and driven man who eventually becomes a pillar of ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward, Rip Torn, John Finn
Votes: 99
21. Promise the Moon (1997 TV Movie)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
The sudden death of a ranch owner leaves his hearing impaired son, who has been institutionalized from childhood, with the responsibility of keeping the land in the family.
Director: Ken Jubenvill | Stars: Henry Czerny, Colette Stevenson, Aidan Devine, Richard Donat
Votes: 84
22. Far and Away (1992)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky
Votes: 68,298 | Gross: $58.88M
23. Anne of Green Gables (1985)
TV-G | 100 min | Drama, Family
An orphan girl, sent to an elderly brother and sister by mistake, charms her new home and community with her fiery spirit and imagination.
Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Patricia Hamilton
Votes: 22,641
24. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008 TV Movie)
144 min | Drama, Family
Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Barbara Hershey, Rachel Blanchard, Shirley MacLaine, Ron Lea
Votes: 669
25. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel (2009)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1899, Mandie's life changes when her Cherokee friends help her escape to a mansion that holds the hidden secrets of her past and the key to her future.
Directors: Joy Chapman, Owen Smith | Stars: Dean Jones, Lexi Johnson, William Yelton, Amanda Waters
Votes: 396
26. Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure (2010)
G | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Family
When Uncle John (Terrell Anthony) forbids Amanda "Mandie" Shaw (Lexi Johnson) from joining his dangerous quest to keep an old promise, Mandie and her newfound mother, Elizabeth (L.A. ... See full summary »
Director: Joy Chapman | Stars: Lexi Johnson, Hayley Mills, William Yelton, Amanda Waters
Votes: 201
27. Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas (2011)
G | 107 min | Drama, Family, Mystery
While visiting her school's forbidden attic, Mandie stumbles upon the mystery of a long forgotten Christmas.
Director: Joy Chapman | Stars: Kelly Washington, Amanda Waters, Joanna Daniel, Glennellen Anderson
Votes: 404
28. Christmas Oranges (2012)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
Experience the journey of Rose, an orphan who teaches the meaning of hope to all those around her. Share a slice of Christmas sweetened with friendship in this poignant story based on a classic holiday tale.
Director: John Lyde | Stars: Edward Herrmann, Nancy Stafford, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Savanna Kylie Lewis
Votes: 732
29. Little Men (1998)
PG | 98 min | Drama
Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. When two homeless boys from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband, the boys learn both academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.
Director: Rodney Gibbons | Stars: Kathleen Fee, Michael Caloz, Mariel Hemingway, Ben Cook
Votes: 633 | Gross: $0.10M
30. Little Women (1994)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Votes: 63,547 | Gross: $50.08M
31. Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
G | 101 min | Adventure, Drama
Summer Of The Monkeys (set in 1910 on the prairies of Canada) follows the story of a young boy, Jay, who dreams of getting enough money to buy his dream horse. One summer Jay finds four ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael Ontkean, Leslie Hope, Wilford Brimley, Corey Sevier
Votes: 619 | Gross: $0.02M
32. The Wild Pony (1983)
G | 87 min | Drama, Family
To save her ranch after the accidental death of her husband, a woman marries the man responsible for the mishap.
Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Marilyn Lightstone, Art Hindle, Josh Byrne, Kelsey McLeod
Votes: 75
33. 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: 10,024 | Gross: $20.66M
34. Return to Snowy River (1988)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Young Jim Craig returns to his home in the Australian high country. He finds that things are not as he left them - his girlfriend, Jessica, is being pursued by another man, and her father, Harrison, doesn't want him back into her life.
Director: Geoff Burrowes | Stars: Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie
Votes: 2,801 | Gross: $13.69M
35. All the Rivers Run (1983–1990)
400 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
Stars: Sigrid Thornton, John Waters, Darius Perkins, John Alansu
Votes: 710
36. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama, Western
When Dr. Mike and Sully's daughter Katie is kidnapped, they and a group of townsfolk travel to Mexico to rescue her.
Director: James Keach | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Eduardo Yáñez, Jim Knobeloch
Votes: 1,039
37. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
When Dr. Mike and Sully travel to Boston for Colleen's graduation from medical school, they find Dr. Mike's mother terminally ill. Sully finds himself a target for assassination by a corrupt politician.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Jessica Bowman, Shawn Toovey
Votes: 693
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