India Synopsis
“First Contact. Last Stand.”
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Audience Engagement
4,718 audience reviews — more than 100% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 98th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Cowboys & Aliens. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From DreamWorks Pictures
Action + Science Fiction in India
17 India titles in our catalog blend the Action and Science Fiction genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Cowboys & Aliens itself).
The 2010–2012 India Window
In the crowded 2010-2012 India release window, Cowboys & Aliens sits at #146 of 202. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in India, 919 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Cowboys & Aliens premiered alongside 62 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 59m runtime, production spent $1.4M per minute on screen and earned $1.5M per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 62 other India films in 2011.
The 853rd India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Cowboys & Aliens, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- sheriff · 3
- arizona · 2
- laser · 2
- native american · 2
- outlaw · 2
- apache nation · 1
- alien invasion · 24
- escape · 22
- robbery · 20
- creature · 14
- spacecraft · 13
- gunfight · 9
- ufo · 6
- based on comic · 58
- alien · 51
- 19th century · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,542 of 1,983 India films indexed here (22nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.8 points below the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Action productions specifically: #466 of 637 (top 73%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | India, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | DreamWorks Pictures, Universal Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Relativity Media, Imagine Entertainment |
| Runtime | 1h 59m |
| Release Date | July 29, 2011 |
| IMDb | tt0409847 |
| Official Site | www.cowboysandaliensmovie.com |