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Dawn Rider (2012)
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Dawn Rider (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A gripping story of vengeance and passion set in the American West. When the father of gunslinger John Mason (Slater) is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason sets out with guns blazing to track down those who killed him. During his quest, he finds himself involved in a grim love triangle when he falls for Alice, the determined and beautiful woman also adored by John’s best friend. Based on the timeless John Wayne adventure, Dawn Rider is a riveting saga of retribution, duty and valor in the American West.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: horse, vengeance, gang, righting the wronged, heroes, love and romance, tough heroes, chase, father son relationship, cold blooded killer, gang of outlaws, dead wife, revenge, bounty hunter, old west, civil war, fall in love, rivalry, sex, prison, gambling, bandit, cowboy, killer, prison escape ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012
Place: usa, wyoming, cincinnati ohio
Keyword: mexican

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Most similar movies to Dawn Rider

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about cowboy, shootout, gunfight, heroes, horse, rivalry and old west mostly in Drama, Western and Action genres. Some movies like Dawn Rider: The Grand Duel (1972), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), Gang of Roses (2003), High Plains Drifter (1973), Death Rides a Horse (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Grand Duel (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Monaco
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, civil war, heroes, on the run, vigilantism, murder, fighting the system, lone wolves, rebellion, society, chases and races, fugitives ...
Time: 70s, 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his ...
Style: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, pardon, wild west, native american, van, shootout, town, jail, machine gun, jail cell, blood, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: tucson arizona, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Gang of Roses (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, good versus evil, vigilantism, criminal's revenge, vengeance, dishonesty, heroes, violence, showdown, black, wild west, woman with a gun ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, small town, anti hero, revenge, justice, greed, murder, cowboy, vengeance, rape, gang, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, year 1973, 1880s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks a murderous double-crosses leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, cult classic, cynical, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stagecoach, betrayal, cowboy, shootout, sartana, native american, woman with a gun, wild west, surprise, treachery, unfaithfulness, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, old west, investigation, murder, cowboy, outlaw, frame up, betrayal, jail, sheriff, fistfight, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, honor, runaway, sheriff, morality, gang, outlaw, heroic mission, wild west, violence, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s
Place: arizona, tucson arizona, usa, yuma arizona, sonora ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Texas, Adios (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, sheriff, gunfight, murder, revolutionary, heroes, vengeance, chases and races, escapades, mysterious character, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Return of the Seven (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, wild west, cowboy, vengeance, kidnapping, gunfight, desert, hanging, horse riding, freedom, revolution, struggle ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century, 1800s
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Hills Run Red (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty ...
Style: spaghetti western, period piece, euro western, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, monster, vengeance, crime gone awry, hidden identity, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, danger, rivalry, american civil war, hitman ...
Time: year 1966
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, wild west, cowboy, small town, violence, greed, gang war, vengeance, tough heroes, brutality, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona, new mexico, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: brutality, good versus evil, rescue, partner, heroes, criminal heroes, society, husband wife relationship, murder, gunfight, gang of outlaws, showdown ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Harder They Fall (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, costume drama ...
Plot: old west, released from prison, murder, outlaw gang, revenge, murder of parents, revelation, wild west, fight, stagecoach, enemy, mass murder ...
Time: future, victorian era, 2020s, 19th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Joe Kidd (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, bounty hunter, anti hero, hostage, train, revolutionary, shootout, bandit, manhunt, landowner, civil war, revenge ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Desperate Trail (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pursuit, manhunt, chase, criminal heroes, old west, on the run, tough heroes, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, civil war, shootout ...
Time: 19th century, year 1994
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.4
 14K
Forsaken (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John Henry returns to his hometown in hopes of repairing his relationship with his estranged father, but a local gang is terrorizing the town. John Henry is the only one who can stop them, however he has abandoned both his gun and reputation as a ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, perverse ...
Plot: father son relationship, real life father and son playing father and son, gladiator, greed, fight, corruption, rivalry, society, danger, redemption, criminal as protagonist, wild west ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: new mexico, arizona, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.2
 31K
Django (1966)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Django is a 1966 Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Franco Nero in the eponymous role. The film earned a reputation as being one of the most violent films ever made up to that point and was subsequently refused a ...
Style: spaghetti western, grindhouse, cult classic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, cowboy, shootout, wild west, civil war, vengeance, badass, lone wolves, brutality, violence, gunfight, desert ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Return of Sabata (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, small town, heroes, gunfight, old west, rivalry, dishonesty, wild west, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, outlaw gang, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1860s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Sabata (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, gunfight, anti hero, wild west, old west, gambling, heist, rivalry, bank robbery, cash, shootout, gunfighter ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, justice, gambling, brutality, redemption, shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Sartana the Gravedigger (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
Style: spaghetti western, cult classic, euro western, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, sartana, bounty hunter, false accusation, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, chases and races, lone wolves, on the run, heroes, tough heroes, frame up ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers (George Kennedy, Michael Ansara, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, Monte Markham, Fernando Rey and Reni Santoni) ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mercenary, cowboy, revolution, wild west, hanging, mexican revolution, combat, native american, revenge, army, dictator, battles ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century, 1890s
Place: latin america, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.1
 13K
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for ...
Style: intense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, betrayal, vengeance, greed, bank robbery, stolen gold, going straight, haunted by the past, criminal's revenge, on the run, obsessive quest, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1961, 60s, 20th century, 1880s
Place: california, monterey california, mexico, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Gunfight at Red Sands (1963)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: small town, violent content, vengeance, rivalry, heroes, tough heroes, showdown, stranger, corrupt sheriff, family relations, squad, family man ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.8
 8K
Wild Bill (1995)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Style: atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, vengeance, hitman, heroes, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, old west, legends and myths, civil war, modern west, modern western, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1860s
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.5
 426
Joshua (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, tough girl, blaxploitation, snake, heroes, interracial sex, rivalry, gang, good versus evil, confined, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Last Outlaw (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the southern cause, but after losing his family he became cold hearted and ...
Style: brutal, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: civil war, psychopath, american civil war, outlaw, river battle, cowboy, modern west, modern western, on the run, chase, bank robber, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: prison, rivalry, vengeance, journalism, bank, old west, prison escape, good versus evil, murder, danger, cowboy, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 1920s
Place: usa, yuma arizona, nashville tennessee, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, exciting, tense ...
Plot: old west, american indian, revenge, friendship, husband wife relationship, justice, u.s. marshal, drinking, politician, friend, native american, dying ...
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Brothers in Arms (2005)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Old West. New Soul. Big Payback.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, criminal heroes, heist, disorder, bounty hunter, tough heroes, dishonesty, vigilantism, on the run, outlaw, bank robbery, criminal ...
Place: new mexico, africa, kenya, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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