Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "noble-savage"

1. Avatar (2009)

PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez

Votes: 1,386,760 | Gross: $760.51M

2. Dances with Wolves (1990)

PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.

Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

Votes: 290,757 | Gross: $184.21M

3. Pocahontas (I) (1995)

G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.

Directors: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg | Stars: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Joe Baker

Votes: 203,074 | Gross: $141.60M

4. The Howling (1981)

R | 91 min | Horror

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone

Votes: 40,221 | Gross: $17.99M

5. Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family

A man learns he has a thirteen-year-old son who was raised in the jungle and brings the boy to New York City, turning his life upside down in the process.

Director: John Pasquin | Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich

Votes: 25,864 | Gross: $59.93M

6. Little Big Man (1970)

PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam

Votes: 37,904 | Gross: $31.56M

7. The Emerald Forest (1985)

R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez

Votes: 11,001 | Gross: $24.47M

8. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo

Votes: 6,452

9. The Naked Prey (1965)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.

Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt

Votes: 5,878

10. Gunga Din (1939)

Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 12,801

11. Wuthering Heights (1998 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Director: David Skynner | Stars: Robert Cavanah, Peter Davison, Orla Brady, Tom Georgeson

Votes: 1,051

12. Savannah (2013)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family, History

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.

Director: Annette Haywood-Carter | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander, Bradley Whitford

Votes: 1,770 | Gross: $0.04M

13. The Pathfinder (1996 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure

This adventure follows a mid-18th-century British scout through the wilderness on a mission to sneak into a French fortress.

Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Sid Bobb, John Bourgeois, Corinne Conley, Denis De Laviolette

Votes: 273

14. Reel Injun (2009)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Western

The history of the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.

Directors: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes | Stars: Adam Beach, Chris Eyre, Russell Means, John Trudell

Votes: 1,649

15. Little Jungle Boy (1969)

78 min | Drama, Family

A boy who grew up in the Malayan jungle is brought into civilization by a husband-wife doctor team. The child finds his new surroundings disturbing and threatening.

Director: Mende Brown | Stars: Rahman Rahmin, Mike Dorsey, Niki Huen, Michael Pate

Votes: 19

16. El buen salvaje

Drama | Pre-production

Expelled from his earthly paradise, a young South American boy lands in the house of a mature and determined woman whom a terminal illness has made dependent.

Director: Pablo Ros Cardona | Star: Mona Martínez

17. The Myth of the Noble Savage (2017 Video)

60 min | Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux discusses the myth of the noble savage with the university professor and author, Dr. Duke Pesta.

Stars: Duke Pesta, Stefan Molyneux

18. X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997)
Episode: Reunion - Part Two (1994)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The X-Men are now in the Savage Land and are powerless like Xavier and Magneto, which leaves the X-Men open to being experimented on by Mr. Sinister. The only ones left to rescue them are ... See full summary »

Directors: Larry Houston, Richard Bowman | Stars: Cedric Smith, Norm Spencer, Catherine Disher, Lenore Zann

Votes: 730

19. Conspiracy Clearinghouse (2020– )
Kaspar Hauser -The Boy, the Syndrome (The World Is Weird 5) (2021 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

The strange story of a boy who appeared in Nuremberg, barely able to speak, and who is then mysteriously murdered.

Director: Derek DeWitt | Star: Derek DeWitt

20. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Why the Criminal Justice System Gave Up on Punishing Criminals (2024 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Director: Mark Jones | Star: Matt Walsh

Votes: 13

21. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
A Cultural Earthquake (2017 Podcast Episode)

47 min | Talk-Show

Klavan discusses the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Mike Pence at a football game, Columbus Day, and more.

Stars: Andrew Klavan, Donald Trump, Terry Moran