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Hang 'Em High (1968)
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Original name: Hang 'em High
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 starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, brutal, enigmatic, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, judge, hanging, u.s. marshal, court, justice, guilt, false accusation, death sentence, tough guy, tough cop, ambush, miscarriage of justice, rape victim, showdown, attempted murder, prison, civil war, vigilantism, cowboy, widow, small town, pardon, lawyer, violence ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
oklahoma, california, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, tense, harsh and serious films with plots about runaway, vengeance, storytelling, violence, mentor, moral ambiguity and gunfight mostly in Western, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Hang 'Em High: High Plains Drifter (1973), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Pale Rider (1985), Unforgiven (1992), A Fistful of Dollars (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, small town, revenge, suspense, justice, greed, murder, vengeance, gang, cowboy, gunfight, rape ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, arizona, usa
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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:
epic, exciting, tense, breathtaking, stylized ...
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civil war, treasure hunt, old west, gunfight, greed, american civil war, good versus evil, suspense, moral ambiguity, cowboy, heroes, beautiful scenery ...
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Place:
texas, new mexico, arizona, austin texas, usa ...
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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:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, preacher, gold, courage, murder, greed, revenge, gunfight, suspense, one man army, gunfighter, one against many ...
Time:
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Place:
california, sacramento california
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100%
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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, harsh ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, old west, gunfight, sheriff, prostitute, small town, hitman, morality, prostitution ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
wyoming, kansas, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
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stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh, serious ...
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boys' night
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old west, gunfight, small town, greed, vengeance, gang, violence, brutality, gang war, cowboy, gold, sheriff ...
Time:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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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. ...
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revenge, vengeance, cowboy, bounty hunter, old west, justice, gunfight, runaway, determination, texas ranger, teenage girl, death of father ...
Time:
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Place:
arkansas, texas, oklahoma, california, usa
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100%
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 ...
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intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: 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:
affectionate, intense, stylized, melancholic, ironic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
realistic, brutal, harsh, tense, talky ...
Plot:
american civil war, revenge, civil war, native americans, native american, suspense, murder, massacre, surrender, manhunt, on the run, runaway ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 70s
Place:
texas, missouri, austin texas, usa, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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, exciting, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
Plot:
revenge, bounty hunter, murder, manhunt, vengeance, hanging, cowboy, reward, civil war veteran, alcoholic, texas ranger, justice ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 70s, 1930s
Place:
texas, arkansas, oklahoma, california, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
buddy movie, epic, scenic, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, bank robbery, old west, robbery, friendship, heist, friendship between men, buddies, machismo, cowboy, buddy, gang ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
bolivia, wyoming, new york, california, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
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Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, return to their neighboring homes to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Audience:
boys' night
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horse ranch, civil war, hitman, bounty hunter, gang, brutality, eccentricity, train robbery, beautiful scenery, addiction, adaptation, corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, gunfight, cowboy, old west, lone hero, gang, sheriff, friendship, suspense, betrayal, revenge, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: 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, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids
Plot:
revenge, murder, gunfight, mentor, old west, prison, native american, solitude, multiple storylines, fantasy world, one man army, tough guy ...
Time:
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Place:
nevada, tokyo, texas, california, usa ...
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24%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they ...
Style:
tense, talky, semi serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, manly
Plot:
vengeance, gunfight, american civil war, heist, parents and children, family relations, criminal heroes, partners, brother brother relationship, suspense, gang, good versus evil ...
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23%
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Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
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Story:
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stylized, atmospheric, harsh, serious, exciting ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job ...
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
gunfight, cowboy, vengeance, violence, old west, revenge, showdown, civil war veteran, gunslinger, corruption, friendship, small town ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
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Genre: 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:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style:
rough, tense, talky, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Time:
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