Movies Like Dakota's Summer (2014)

Dakota's Summer is a 2014 family film from Timothy Armstrong with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Cowgirls n' Angels and Toy Story 5.

Family

Cowgirls n' Angels

2012

A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.

6.0

MagicScore

Toy Story 5

2026

When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.

8.3

MagicScore

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968

Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun smugglers. She tricks Haywood into a sham marriage as a disguise. Haywood inadvertently becomes the legendary "Doc the Haywood" after he guns down "Arnold the Kid".

6.2

MagicScore

The Rider

2018

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

7.3

MagicScore

The Electric Horseman

1979

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

6.1

MagicScore

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

2009

New Yorkers Paul and Meryl Morgan seem to have it all -- except that their marriage is crumbling around them. But their romantic woes are small compared to the trouble they find themselves in after witnessing a murder. To protect them from an assassin, federal agents whisk away Paul and Meryl to a small town in Wyoming, where their marriage will crash and burn, or their passion will reignite.

5.4

MagicScore

The Rounders

1965

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.

5.5

MagicScore

National Velvet

1945

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.

7.2

MagicScore

Flicka 2

2010

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. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just as free-spirited and strong-willed as Carrie. The two form a special bond and Carrie opens her heart to her father and a handsome, local boy, but when a jealous rival puts Flicka's life in jeopardy, Carrie must do whatever it takes to save her best friend.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

Windstorm

2013

While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.

7.3

MagicScore

#11

Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue

2010

During a summer stay on the mainland, Tinker Bell is accidentally discovered while investigating a little girl's fairy house. As the other fairies, led by the brash Vidia, launch a daring rescue in the middle of a fierce storm, Tink develops a special bond with the lonely, little girl.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

Destined to Ride

2018

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.

6.9

MagicScore

#13

The Girl

2009

Story of a ten-year-old girl left alone in her house in the summer of 1981.

6.3

MagicScore

#14

The Visitor

2008

A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.

6.2

MagicScore

#15

Brokeback Mountain

2005

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

7.8

MagicScore

#16

People on Sunday

1930

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

7.2

MagicScore

#17

Summer 1993

2017

After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

7.1

MagicScore

#18

Devil Story

1986

After their car breaks down in the French countryside, a young couple must fend off a Nazi mutant and his gypsy mother, a mummy, and a possessed horse.

4.5

MagicScore

#19

Stranger in Our House

1979

A country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, though teenaged daughter Rachel grows suspect that she has an alternative agenda; one that possibly includes witchcraft.

5.3

MagicScore

#20

Lady of the Night

1986

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

5.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Dakota's Summer?

The top films similar to Dakota's Summer by MovieMagicScore are Cowgirls n' Angels (6.0), Toy Story 5 (8.3), The Shakiest Gun in the West (6.2). Each shares family themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Dakota's Summer worth watching?

Dakota's Summer holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 54 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Dakota's Summer?

Dakota's Summer (2014) is a family film directed by Timothy Armstrong, starring Haley Ramm, Jade Pettyjohn, Emily Bett Rickards.

Where can I find more recommendations like Dakota's Summer?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more family recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Dakota's Summer

This ranked list pairs Dakota's Summer (2014), a family film from Timothy Armstrong, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Haley Ramm take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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