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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Original name: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story: While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Style: spaghetti western, epic, exciting, breathtaking, tense, visual, realistic, stylized, scenic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, date night, manly, kids, adult
Plot: old west, civil war, treasure hunt, american civil war, greed, gunfight, moral ambiguity, wild west, anti hero, shootout, cowboy, hitman, beautiful scenery, betrayal, desert, gold, vengeance, treasure, cons and scams, outlaw, twists and turns, storytelling, great ending, music, culture clash ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 20th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place: texas, arizona, austin texas, usa, new mexico, sonora, mexico ...
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Most similar movies to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western and serious films with plots about shootout, cowboy, gunfight, native american, murder, violence and pistol mostly in Western, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Unforgiven (1992), High Plains Drifter (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
Style: spaghetti western, stylized, suspense, atmospheric, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: old west, wild west, bounty hunter, cowboy, small town, robbery, rape, revenge, storytelling, heroes, gang, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, 1890s, 1870s
Place: texas, austin texas, new mexico, usa, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and ...
Style: spaghetti western, tense, suspenseful, visually appealing, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: old west, vengeance, wild west, cowboy, revenge, desert, harmonica, gunfight, small town, mysterious character, death, showdown ...
Time: 19th century, year 1968, 1800s
Place: arizona, yuma arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 8.2
 434K
Unforgiven (1992)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: old west, revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, gunfight, hitman, sheriff, prostitute, small town, wild west, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: wyoming, kansas, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Style: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, powerful ...
Plot: american civil war, native american, revenge, civil war, murder, surrender, massacre, one against many, on the run, manhunt, indians, wild west ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 20th century, year 1976, 1800s
Place: texas, missouri, austin texas, usa, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.0
 43K
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, judge, court, u.s. marshal, hanging, guilt, justice, vigilante, cowboy, false accusation, wild west, attempted murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 64K
Pale Rider (1985)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, courage, murder, greed, revenge, one against many, teenage girl, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, one man army, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1985, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they ...
Style: exciting, spaghetti western, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: treasure hunt, gang, treasure, greed, chase, gold, desert, murder, map, rivalry, danger, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s, 1870s, 19th century
Place: usa, persia, arizona, colorado, sonora ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use ...
Style: stylized, entertaining, bloody, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, desert, cowboy, map, robbery, rivalry, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, treasure map, cruelty, occupation, modern west ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century
Place: china, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Style: captivating, bloody, talky, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bounty hunter, murder, snow, winter, gang, stagecoach, cold weather, old west, prisoner, brutality, dark humor, criminal ...
Time: 19th century, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, victorian era
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Django Unchained (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Style: suspense, talky, brutal, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: slavery, racism, revenge, violent, bounty hunter, old west, vengeance, african american, dark humor, gunfight, hitman, racial violence ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012, 2010s, 1850s
Place: usa, texas, tennessee, mississippi, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
Style: suspense, intense, entertaining, tense, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: good versus evil, revenge, bounty hunter, dark hero, mercenary, criminal, deception, outlaw, duel, showdown, small town, murder ...
Time: year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, 1870s
Place: america, california, sacramento california, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
 51K
True Grit (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he ...
Style: stylized, harsh, suspense, exciting, spaghetti western ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: revenge, bounty hunter, murder, manhunt, cowboy, hanging, texas ranger, reward, civil war veteran, teenage girl, alcoholic, justice ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: texas, oklahoma, arkansas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style: epic, scenic, suspense, entertaining, cult classic ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, gunfight, cowboy, bank robbery, buddies, robbery, friendship between men, buddy, outlaw, heist, shootout, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1969, ancient times ...
Place: bolivia, wyoming, new york, latin america, utah ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 165K
Tombstone (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc ...
Style: realistic, suspense, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: old west, cowboy, vengeance, gunfight, lone hero, criminal, gunslinger, sheriff, friendship, revenge, betrayal, wyatt earp ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1800s, 1880s
Place: arizona, america, tucson arizona, usa, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 356K
True Grit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style: tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place: texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
26%
Take a Hard Ride (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, cowboy, desert, murder, gambling, fistfight, gunfight, lgbt, exploitation, native american, shootout, heroes ...
Time: year 1975, 19th century, 70s
Place: latin america, new mexico, arizona, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.9
 90K
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers Lyle (Warren Oates) and Tector Gorch (Ben Johnson), Bishop discovers the heist is ...
Style: controversial, cult classic, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, gunfight, robbery, gang, on the run, violent, heist, friendship, cowboy, wild west, bounty hunter, civil war ...
Time: year 1969, 1910s, 19th century, 20th century
Place: texas, america, persia, mexico, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden ...
Style: spaghetti western, light, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nun, gunfight, cowboy, cowboys and outlaws, heroes, rescue, danger, partner, gunslinger, rivalry, rebelliousness, indians ...
Time: 19th century, year 1970, 1860s
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 6K
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 ⇓
24%
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 4.9
 2K
God's Gun (1976)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance), who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, native american, old west, heroes, one man army, vigilantism, murder, boy, tough heroes, hitman, psychopath, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Big Gundown (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, grindhouse, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, cowboy, love letter, woman with a gun, wild west, badass, mormon, maverick, chase, manhunt, social commentary, outlaw ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century
Place: mexico, latin america, sonora, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Don't Turn the Other Cheek (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, hanging, heroes, political unrest, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, rebellion, state affairs, revolution, war violence ...
Time: year 1971
Place: yuma arizona, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Run, Man, Run (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, epic, action adventure, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, native american, love story, maverick, duel, treasure hunt, violent content, revolution, rivalry, escapades, chase ...
Time: 19th century, 1910s
Place: mexico, austin texas, texas, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
How the West Was Won (1962)
Genre: Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Style: exciting, epic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: old west, native american, civil war, wilderness, american civil war, gold, usa history, outlaw, small town, attempted murder, cowboy, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1962, year 1865, victorian era ...
Place: california, arizona, missouri, ohio, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 8.0
 867K
The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 21K
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 ⇓
23%
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