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Alvarez Kelly (1966)
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Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style: retro, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, brutal, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, military, kidnapping, chase, colonel, cattle, spy, cowboy, slavery, torture, wine, drinking, spying, horseman, accomplice, hostage, businessman, swamp, battlefield, confederate soldier, cattleman, heroes, soldier, rescue ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s, 70s
Place: virginia, usa, mexico, texas, ireland, spain, california ...
Keyword: irish, americana, partners, mexican, gangsters, wizards

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about heroes, civil war, rivalry, cowboy, horse, gunfight and shootout mostly in Western, Drama and War genres. Some movies like Alvarez Kelly: Two Rode Together (1961), A Time for Killing (1967), Wild Rovers (1971), One-Eyed Horse (2008), The Gundown (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Two Rode Together (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot: american indian, rescue, hostage, cowboy, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, old west, civil war ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 1880s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Time for Killing (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and ...
Style: retro, costume drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, rape, fortress, escape, soldier, hostage, prosecution, violent content, battles, old west, vengeance ...
Time: year 1967, 19th century, victorian era
Place: utah, new mexico, arizona, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Wild Rovers (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female gunfighter, hidden treasure, mexican border, partner, animal life, tough heroes, heroes, lone wolves, buddies, fugitives, friendship, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: utah, latin america, wyoming, montana, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In this bloody long-standing feud, two families seek vengeance against each other as they unmercifully attempt to destroy each other's loved ones.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: civil war, family in danger, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, vengeance, feud, american civil war, danger, violent content, soldier, governor, revenge ...
Time: 19th century
Place: kentucky, usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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One-Eyed Horse (2008)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, vigilantism, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, obsessive quest, chase, soldier, chases and races, old west, road not taken, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1880s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Gundown (2011)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough
Plot: vengeance, heroes, rivalry, vigilantism, kidnapping, tough heroes, hitman, danger, manhunt, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, desert ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Major Dundee (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Style: tense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: american civil war, military, soldier, civil war, rescue, apache, battles, raid, heroes, apache indian, leadership, friend turned foe ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1965, year 1865
Place: mexico, new mexico, usa, austin texas, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: saloon owner, marshal, interracial, lonely, small town, showdown, pistol duel, gunfight, social relations, self defense, lone wolves, heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Shalako (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, spaghetti western, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: opposites attract, rescue, survival, native american, gunfight, tough heroes, countess, hostage, rivalry, adventurer, danger, culture clash ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, usa, tucson arizona, arizona, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Keeping Room (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, historical drama ...
Plot: american civil war, home invasion, soldier, survival, civil war, danger, family relations, female gunfighter, self defense, farmhouse, feminist, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, year 1865
Place: usa, southern usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 7.3
 10K
Shenandoah (1965)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
Style: retro, black and white, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, wartime, military, anti war, bittersweet, war, interracial relations, wild west, father son relationship, family drama, cowboy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apache territory, escapades, rescue, old west, half breed, farm, tough heroes, heroes, danger, left to die, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.0
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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 ⇓
70%
 6.4
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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 ⇓
69%
The Undefeated (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, native american, friendship, mexican revolution, cowboy, military, medieval, wild west, desert, gunfight, revolution ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century, 1860s
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.7
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Rio Lobo (1970)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
Style: harsh, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, betrayal, vengeance, gunfight, revenge, justice, brutality, redemption, colonel, unlikely friendships, old west ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, year 1865, 1860s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.5
 6K
Bandolero! (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, ...
Style: retro, funny, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, mexican bandit, civil war, woman with a gun, wild west, cowboy, bandit, brother, outlaw, executioner, desert, escape ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, texas, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
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The War Wagon (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, chase, vengeance, gold, revenge, native american, frame up, rivalry, jail, old west, wild west ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 19th century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
68%
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Nevada Smith (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to ...
Style: stylized, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, murder, mentor, gunfight, old west, prison, fantasy world, multiple storylines, solitude, cowboy, one man army, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966
Place: nevada, usa, arizona, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Style: tense, spaghetti western, cult classic, grim, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: horse ranch, civil war, bounty hunter, hitman, assassin, wild west, cowboy, eccentricity, brutality, train robbery, prison, loneliness ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century, 1880s
Place: montana, canada, usa, missouri, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 ⇓
66%
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Confederate soldier Matt Weaver returns to town after the Civil War, he finds that his home has been sold by town boss Sam Brewster. Brewster hires gunfighter Jules Gaspard d'Estaing to deal with Weaver, but d'Estaing's ...
Style: retro, independent film, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, cowboy, civil war, shootout, vigilantism, soldier, small town, half breed, cowboys and outlaws, confederate soldier, hitman, tough heroes ...
Time: 60s, 1860s
Place: new mexico, usa, new orleans, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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 ⇓
65%
The Proud and Damned (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA, Colombia, Philippines, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of five Confederate mercenaries led by Sergeant Will Hansen must choose sides carefully in a small village where they find themselves trapped in the middle of a rebellion. The group is torn as to whether they should honor the powerful ...
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, combat, swing, confederate soldier, mercenary, violent content, betrayal, love affair, tough heroes, righting the wronged, battles ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel (Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw), newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian (Sam Elliot) is the only hope.From the book by famed Western author ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family life, wilderness, criminal heroes, danger, mysterious character, gangster, justice, gunfight, modern west, shootout, modern western, showdown ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, atmospheric
Plot: american civil war, civil war, lonely, iconoclastic, battles, war, heroes, soldier, buddies, society, rivalry, military ...
Time: 19th century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, mississippi, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 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 ⇓
64%
 5.3
 228
The Raiders (1963)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: civil war, american civil war, train, farm, righting the wronged, heroes, rivalry, gang, lone wolves, dishonesty, military, chases and races ...
Time: year 1963, 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.6
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Badland (2019)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, brutal, dark ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, gunslinger, chase, notoriety, sheriff, heroes, gunfight, veteran, morality, escape, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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