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Breaking Free aka A Leap of Faith (1995)

In this teen-oriented drama, Rick (Jeremy London) is a young man who has fallen into trouble with the law. Given a choice between going to a juvenile home and volunteering to work at a camp for the bl...

Black Beauty (1994)

Like the Anna Sewell novel that inspired it, this film adaptation is told from the perspective of a majestic stallion named Black Beauty (Alan Cumming). As a colt, Black Beauty has a relaxed life in t...

Wind Dancer (1993)

A widower (Matt McCoy) takes his injured daughter (Raeanin Simpson) to a doctor (Mel Harris) who uses a horse as part of the physical therapy.

Into the West (1992)

Impoverished in Dublin, youngsters Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy) live with their widowed father (Gabriel Byrne), who drowns his grief in drink. Their grim existence is uplifted ...

Gonda Betrix – Jumping to Success (1992)

In 1992, she wrote a part-autobiography, part training manual with Julia Attwood-Wheeler. Betrix, Gonda; Attwood-Wheeler, Julia (1992). Jumping to Success.

Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991)

Thrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora (Gabrielle Anwar) tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives. With the help of Al Carver (Michael Schoeffling), whose f...

Polo – Jilly Cooper (1991)

In Jilly Cooper's third Rutshire chronicle we meet Ricky France-Lynch, who is moody, macho, and magnificent. He had a large crumbling estate, a nine-goal polo handicap, and a beautiful wife who was fa...

Summer of the Colt (1991)

A 13-year-old (Alexandra London-Thompson), her siblings and a friend visit her grandfather (Héctor Alterio) and his sister (China Zorrilla) in South America.

King of the Wind (1990)

Fate takes a boy (Navin Chowdhry) and his racehorse from 1700s North Africa to the world of French and English kings.

The Man from Snowy River II: Return to Snowy River (1988)

During the 1880s, handsome young cattleman Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson), accompanied by his herd of Australian horses, returns to his hometown of Snowy River to be with his love, Jessica Harrison (Sigrid...

Cowboys Don’t Cry (1988)

After he loses control of his truck and causes the drunken traffic accident that kills his loving wife, neglectful father and fading rodeo hero Josh Morgan (Ron White) sinks into depression and self-p...

Ladyhawke (1985)

Upon breaking out of a dungeon, youthful thief Phillipe Gaston (Matthew Broderick) befriends Capt. Navarre (Rutger Hauer), a man with a strange secret. Navarre and his lover Lady Isabeau d'Anjou (Mich...

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