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Plot Summary:
Shipped off to her American dad's ranch for the summer, a teen and her horse Lucky Lad compete for a spot at the National Youth Rodeo.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Primo Baby (1990)
Plot Summary:
A tomboyish juvenile delinquent, Paschal Draney, is sent to live in a foster home run by a well-known horse breeder where he befriends a Thoroughbred seemingly crippled by a congenital eye defect.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pegasus: Pony With a Broken Wing (2019)
Plot Summary:
It’ll take a miracle to save the Killian family’s ranch… but miracles come in all shapes and sizes. Just as a greedy developer plans to take over their ranch, tween girl Sydney Killian and a neighbor boy find a mysterious pony with an injured wing. As they secretly heal the creature, they find the pony’s magical powers could change their fortunes forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Dakota's Summer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cowgirls 'n Angels Dakota's Summer tells the story of Dakota Rose, a cowgirl and competitive trick rider who finds out at the age of seventeen that she was adopted. She secretly sets out to discover the truth about her adoption and meet her birth parents while visiting her grandfather, rodeo legend Austin Rose. At Austin's ranch on break from the Sweethearts of the Rodeo trick riding team, Dakota discovers that family is not defined by blood, but rather personal commitment and by the love they share. Finally at peace, Dakota trains with Austin in order to prepare to rejoin the Sweethearts for their final competition against the talented Lone Star trick riding team and become the champion trick rider she was destined to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, light, humorous, captivating
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Our Wild Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy teenage girl from Malibu falls in love with a beautiful wild mustang, adventure, and the father she has never known in the wild Sierra Nevada Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tornado is a true life story of patience, endurance and passion. The picture tells the story of two damaged souls: Pierre, a depressed and damaged young man and Tornado, an emotionally tormented horse. Sensing Tornado’s potential, Pierre travels to Noenieput, in the Groen Kalahari, to find Barrie Burger, a horse whisperer. With Barrie’s advice, Pierre and Tornado embark on a journey of healing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Spirit Riders (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a rebellious teen is arrested and sentenced to an equine therapy camp, she forms a connection with a spirited thoroughbred that she helps train with the guidance of the ranch's no-nonsense owner.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Race To Win (2016)
Plot Summary:
After losing her father, a young women must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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A Gift Horse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Torn apart by the loss of her mother, young Amanda spends time at a ranch owned by a business tycoon. When his spoiled daughter rejects their new horse, Amanda proves that Misty is a true champion and restores her happiness in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Horse Dancer (2017)
Plot Summary:
When one of America's most promising young gymnasts, Samantha Wick, is cut from the Olympic team, she decides to follow her dreams of horseback riding by joining a girls horse camp. With financial troubles threatening to shut the camp down, Samantha uses her gymnastic prowess to start a horse-dancing team to raise money and save the camp!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Ready to Run (2000)
Plot Summary:
A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Family, Sport
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Harley's Hill (2011)
Plot Summary:
Harley, a runaway thoroughbred, is found by a rancher and his daughter. Unable to find the owner, they nurture him back to health, and the girl includes Harley as her partner in her horse club competitions.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, light, feel good
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Orphan Horse (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired horse trainer finds a young runaway girl in his barn. Skeptic at first, he let's her stay and a friendship develops while he discovers her heart and talent for horses.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, touching
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A Champion Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
A troubled girl finds faith, hope, and healing through a relationship with a wounded horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, christian film
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Run, Appaloosa, Run (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the Nez Perce nation, usually girls may not ride in a certain dangerous "suicide" cross-country and downhill horse race, but trick rider Mary and her exceptional horse Holly Smoke get the chief's permission to do so.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags:
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A Horse Tale (2015)
Plot Summary:
Uptight city accountant Michael Thompson is hired to help a family save their stable before the bank shuts them down. Michael reluctantly agrees, but as he searches for ways to save a family's legacy, he finds something he never expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Storm Rider (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle struggle to bond, she's given an orphaned horse to foster and train. Dani pours her affection into this young horse, calling her Stormy and giving her all the attention she's missing from her unsettled life. Dani soon realizes that truly caring about others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. And when her uncle and friends need her the most, Dani and Stormy work together to save the day and learn the true meaning of the word, family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, light, thought provoking, captivating, feel good, semi serious
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Destined to Ride (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lily's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave her friends to spend the summer on a remote ranch with her nature-loving aunt. She is surprised to meet an unlikely group of friends and Pistachio, the horse she has an unbreakable bond with. When her aunt is threatened by unfriendly neighbors, Lily knows it is up to her to save the ranch.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Apple of My Eye (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl struggles after a traumatic horse riding accident causes her to lose her eyesight. CHARLES, the head trainer of Southeastern Guide Dogs, trains Apple, a miniature horse, to be her companion and surrogate eyes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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A Cowgirl's Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dusty Rhodes is new at Jefferson High, and she sticks out like a... well, a cowgirl. Dusty is a real cowgirl from Texas. Her parents are in the U.S. Army: her mother a helicopter pilot and her father a Special Forces Army Ranger. At first, Dusty is an outcast, but eventually she makes friends with a group that includes Savanah, a girl whose father was killed while fighting in Iraq three years earlier. Even though Savanah is kind of Goth and Dusty is all cowgirl they have a special connection and they bond. Dusty gets the school to agree to an Equestrian Drill Team and she enlists her new city slicker friends to join the team. As Dusty and the team practice, Dusty deals with the fears that come with her mother fighting in Afghanistan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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Emma's Chance (2016)
Plot Summary:
While fulfilling her community service hours at a horse rescue ranch, Emma forms an unlikely bond with an abused show horse who won't let anyone ride him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, realistic
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Dark Horse (1992)
Plot Summary:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 76%
Immenhof - The Adventure of a Summer (2019)
Plot Summary:
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 them. They have to overcome all manner of adversity in order to keep their beloved farm.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Going for Gold (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen year old, Emma joins a high school cheerleading team when she moves to Australia with her dad who is a former Air Force Officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, sincere
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A Sunday Horse (2016)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Biography, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, emotional
Similar in 78%
Moondance Alexander (2007)
Plot Summary:
The curiously named, Moondance Alexander is a spirited teen living with her eccentric mother. She is faced with another uneventful summer until she discovers a lost pinto pony named Checkers who has jumped out of his paddock. Although Moondance returns the horse to his rightful owner, the gruff and mysterious Dante Longpre, she is convinced that Checkers is a champion jumper in disguise and is determined to help him realize his full potential. Moondance manages to talk Dante into training her and Checkers for the Bow Valley Classic and despite the criticism of her peers; discovers that perseverance, loyalty and individuality can land you in the winner's circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, realistic, sincere
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Casey's Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Casey's family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey's Shadow does not seem to have a lot going for it, but may turn out to be a champion.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, feel good, serious, motivational, exciting, entertaining, sad
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Racing Stripes (2005)
Plot Summary:
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, touching, feel good, funny, fast, semi serious, light, clever, sweet