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The Claim (2000)
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The Claim (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Style: atmospheric, intense, serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, epic, contemplative, gloomy, erotic ...
Plot: redemption, character study, haunted by the past, couple relations, parents and children, couples, ex husband ex wife relationship, small town, betrayal, father daughter relationship, old west, snow, death, greed, civil war, past, age difference, modern western, hanging, modern west, meme, love hurts, prostitute, family relations, nudity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 70s, victorian age
Place: usa, california
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

Most similar movies to The Claim

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, gloomy and contemplative films with plots about love and romance, death, couples, horse, kiss, husband wife relationship and murder mostly in Drama, Romance and Western genres. Some movies like The Claim: The Outsider (2002), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Hi-Lo Country (1998), Shadowheart (2009), Dust (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Outsider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Quaker-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, rough, spiritual ...
Plot: amish, forbidden love, love affair, rivalry, good versus evil, murder, redemption, heroes, society, vengeance, caught in the act, opposites attract ...
Time: 19th century
Place: ohio, montana
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, cynical, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot: prostitution, snow, prostitute, mining town, old west, wild west, gambling, winter, female nudity, small town, gambler, brothel ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, cowboy, infidelity, cattle ranch, pickup truck, desert, gunfight, love triangle, introspection, human nature, homecoming, coming of age ...
Time: year 1998, post world war two
Place: new mexico, pearl harbor, california, usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Shadowheart (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: James Conners comes home to the town of Legend, New Mexico in 1865 to avenge his fathers death against the ruthless Will Tunney. Along the way he re-captures his long lost love Mary Cooper. With the chance to take Will Tunney he must choose revenge ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, rough, bleak, stylized ...
Plot: horse, homecoming, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, love and romance, revenge, sheriff, gunfight, murder of father, small town, small town life ...
Time: 19th century
Place: new mexico, usa
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50%
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Dust (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, captivating, spaghetti western ...
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, family relations, elderly, fight, gang, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, thief, storytelling, murder, theft ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 1890s ...
Place: macedonia, europe, new york, usa, former yugoslavia ...
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48%
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, period piece, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: love, love triangle, relationships, nudity, death, betrayal, greed, fall in love, literary, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, london, britain, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ride the High Country (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Style: spaghetti western, sentimental, realistic, aesthetic, retro ...
Plot: horse, gold rush, runaway, wild west, aging, betrayal, friendship, judge, gunfight, shootout, death, drinking ...
Time: year 1962, 19th century, 1890s
Place: california, america, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Blood Red (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: modern western, love, modern west, gang, murder, immigrant, sexual content, conspiracy, profanity, love and romance, heroes, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 19th century, 1890s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Monte Walsh (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, tense, period piece ...
Plot: heroes, old west, small town, forbidden love, against the odds, righting the wronged, society, escapades, human nature, working class, wild west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1890s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Angel and the Badman (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A remake of the classic 1947 John Wayne western about an injured gunslinger who falls in with good company in the form of some Quakers.
Style: captivating, serious, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: on the run, redemption, rivalry, self discovery, love affair, lone wolves, fall in love, old west, couples, cowboy, gunfight, reputation ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Homesman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, realistic, bleak, depressing ...
Plot: old west, twists and turns, mental illness, suicide, wild west, human nature, depression, native american, anti hero, obsessive quest, unlikely partners, partner ...
Time: 19th century, year 2014, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Washington Square (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, stylized, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, american history, gilded age, couple relations, love and romance, feminist, marriage, gay, amor, asexual ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1850s
Place: america, new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Appaloosa (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, native american attack, cowboy, gunfight, friendship, wild west, tough law enforcer, justice, murder, law enforcement, trust, sheriff ...
Time: 19th century, year 2008, 1800s, 1880s
Place: texas, new mexico, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ride with the Devil (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an ...
Style: bloody, realistic, epic, sex comedy, gothic ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, revolution, war, modern western, modern west, conflict, military, revenge, violence, slavery, brutality ...
Time: 19th century, year 1999, 1800s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: missouri, germany, kansas, texas, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Heat and Dust (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style: realistic, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot: love triangle, colonialism, jazz, indian woman, british empire, extramarital affair, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal ...
Time: 1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Paper Hearts (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Western drama directed by Rod McCall. Henry deserted his family years before, Henry (James Brolin) kicks up a storm when he shows up to see his youngest daughter before her wedding. He has ulterior motives, including a divorce from wife Jenny (Sally ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nudity, wedding, family relations, naked woman, striptease, profanity, couples, family problems, introspection, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Open Range (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: old west, cowboy, gunfight, violence, shootout, revenge, showdown, gunslinger, civil war veteran, vengeance, friendship, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s, 1880s
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Swann in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Jude (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style: emotional, erotic, period piece, romantic, depressing ...
Plot: love, unhappy marriage, erotica, social injustice, family relations, destiny, forbidden love, sex scene, sex, mentor, adultery, tragedy ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Woodlanders (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, infidelity, love triangle, social differences, tragic love, looking for love, love affair, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor, society, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Chinese Box (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 8.2
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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 ⇓
46%
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Ethan Frome (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style: emotional, intense, costume drama, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, love triangle, infidelity, destiny, family drama, true love, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1800s
Place: usa, massachusetts, america, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Misfits (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three ...
Style: atmospheric, black and white, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: desert, divorce, cowboy, fall in love, aging, modern west, older man younger woman relationship, moral dilemma, ranch, stallion, couples, death ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: nevada, usa, las vegas, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
Style: melancholic, bleak, tense, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot: police officer, fugitives, prison, love triangle, chase, criminal heroes, escapades, on the road, passion, love, relationships, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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