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Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
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Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 322 min.
TV show
Story: 'Captain' Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker. Gideon hires Agostina Vega and Mexican Cowboys to run the Mustangs. Call leaves the drive for Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians, which almost costs him his life. In Montana, Newt and Jasper get into a shoot out in the local bar and wind up in jail. The odds of them surviving the lynch mob are slim until Dunnegan has them freed. However, Newt and Jasper will have to work for Dunnegan to keep their freedom. Newt has mixed emotions about working for Dunnegan who helps him in any way, because he also has respect for Call - who may or may not be his true father. Dunnegan has big plans for his cattle and the future. Those plans do not include those who do not throw in with him and the Hat Creek Cattle Company is not interested in Dunnegan.
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, wild
Plot: cowboy, modern western, modern west, wild west, native american, texas ranger, cavalry, mexican standoff, old west, heroes, on the road, love and romance, tragic love, escapades, unfulfilled love, partner, haunted by the past, buddies, obsessive quest, heroic mission, african american, scotsman, loyalty, jail, decapitation ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana, austin texas, texas, usa
Keyword: americana, partners, mustang, mexican

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about old west, wild west, cowboy, native american, rivalry, horse and heroes mostly in Western, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Return to Lonesome Dove: Lonesome Dove (1989), Into the West (2005), 1883 (2021), Streets of Laredo (1995), Dead Man's Walk (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 384 min.
TV show
Story: Lonesome Dove is a Western television miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove was originally broadcast by CBS on February 5, 1989, drawing a ...
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Into the West (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min.
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Story: Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as ...
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Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995)
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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1883 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 562 min.
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Streets of Laredo (1995)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
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Story: Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle. Joined by his old compadre Pea Eye, it ...
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
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Story: Dead man's Walk is the beginning of the Lonesome Dove Saga. Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are just starting out in the Texas Rangers and have no idea of what they are doing for Call it's Duty above all else. For Gus it's the thrill of ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton, the family defends their property against constant attack by land developers, an Indian reservation, ...
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Comanche Moon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
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Story: Comanche Moon, the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Zahn) and Woodrow F. Call (Urban), now in their middle years, as they continue to ...
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