Movies like High Plains Drifter
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
60K
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, serious, realistic, twist ending, bleak, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, small town, revenge, suspense, justice, greed, murder, vengeance, gang, cowboy, gunfight, rape, criminal, vigilantism, gunslinger, husband wife relationship, ghost, fire, lust, manipulation, cowardice, moral dilemma, secret, mysterious man, guilt ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, arizona, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and harsh films with plots about murder, gunfight, violence, runaway, gun, vengeance and horse mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like High Plains Drifter: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Pale Rider (1985), Unforgiven (1992), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Hang 'Em High (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
civil war, treasure hunt, old west, gunfight, greed, american civil war, good versus evil, suspense, moral ambiguity, cowboy, heroes, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
texas, new mexico, arizona, austin texas, usa ...
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100%
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:
80s, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, sacramento california
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100%
417K
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
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100%
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:
stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, gunfight, small town, greed, vengeance, gang, violence, brutality, gang war, cowboy, gold, sheriff ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, italy, spain, new mexico ...
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100%
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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:
suspenseful, stylized, realistic, epic, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, judge, hanging, u.s. marshal, guilt, justice, court, false accusation, death sentence, tough guy, ambush, tough cop ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
oklahoma, california, usa
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100%
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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 ...
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100%
Genre: 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:
stylized, atmospheric, harsh, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, bounty hunter, suspense, small town, gang, robbery, violence, cowboy, warrior, revenge, heroes, sidekick ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1870s
Place:
texas, austin texas, spain, new mexico, usa ...
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100%
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 165 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:
tense, suspenseful, visually appealing, surprise ending, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
old west, vengeance, mysterious character, villain, cowboy, revenge, gunfight, gang, death, small town, desert, farm ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona, usa, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, train, indians, secret service, gunfight, suspense, u.s. marshal, prisoner, murder mystery, governor, track down, train travel ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, ireland, california, utah
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang ...
Style:
intense, realistic, serious, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
gunfight, gang, gun store, family in danger, suspense, survival, murder, civil war, unlikely friendships, old west, farm, unlikely partners ...
Time:
victorian era, 80s, 1860s, 19th century
Place:
usa, missouri, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
hostage, cowboy, bounty hunter, mexican, landowner, manhunt, bandit, train, revolutionary, civil war, revenge, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 70s, 20th century
Place:
california, texas, new mexico, usa, arizona ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hannie enlists the aid of bounty hunter Tom Price to teach her how to be a gunfighter so she can hunt down the 3 men who killed her husband and raped her.
Style:
psychotronic, perverse, funny, tense, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, revenge, bounty hunter, rape revenge, woman with a gun, exploitation, female gunfighter, chase, cowboy, gunfight, gunslinger ...
Time:
70s
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa, mexico
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
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Story:
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.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, depressing, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, gunfight, old west, feud, revenge, violence spree, violence, murder, family relations, rivalry, suspense ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place:
kentucky, west virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, contemplative
Plot:
amish, love affair, rivalry, good versus evil, forbidden love, murder, redemption, heroes, vengeance, society, opposites attract, justice ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
ohio, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, cowboy, bounty hunter, old west, justice, gunfight, runaway, determination, texas ranger, teenage girl, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 20th century
Place:
arkansas, texas, oklahoma, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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, intense, disturbing, bloody, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gunfight, mexican revolution, on the run, violent, heist, robbery, friendship, gangsters, bounty hunter, suspense, civil war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
texas, mexico, arizona, latin america, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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, rough, suspenseful, 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, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 60s, 1880s
Place:
california, mexico, texas, usa, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
154K
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, serious, factual, intense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, gunfight, cowboy, old west, lone hero, gang, sheriff, friendship, suspense, betrayal, revenge, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
arizona, california, tucson arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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:
gloomy, psychological, tense, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, old west, gang, sheriff, suspense, heroic mission, race against time, righting the wronged, death of protagonist, courage, heroes, morality ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, usa, yuma arizona, sonora ...
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
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:
talky, tense, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, vengeance, sheriff, lone hero, old west, adaptation, suspense, cowboy, righting the wronged, tough heroes, good versus evil, vigilantism ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
texas, california, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Style:
bleak, realistic, reflective, enigmatic, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
gunfight, manhunt, great dialogue, destiny, female nudity, violence, death, brutality, murder, bounty hunter, unlikely friendships, runaway ...
Time:
70s, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, usa, new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot:
aborigine, brutality, rape, vengeance, psychopath, twists and turns, wilderness, gunfight, violence, savagery, criminal, tragic event ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
australia
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24%
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, captivating ...
Plot:
gunfight, cowboy, vengeance, violence, old west, revenge, showdown, civil war veteran, gunslinger, corruption, friendship, small town ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
texas, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, gloomy, meditative, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
politics, lawyer, suspense, small town, cowboy, criminal, old west, justice, senator, robbery, success, society ...
Time:
19th century
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23%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
gunfight, suspense, widow, self defense, small town, haunted by the past, cancer, retirement, human nature, life is a bitch, against the odds, hitman ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, 1890s, turn of the century ...
Place:
tucson arizona, california, el paso texas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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:
tense, sexy, harsh, cynical, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
horse ranch, civil war, hitman, bounty hunter, gang, brutality, eccentricity, train robbery, beautiful scenery, addiction, adaptation, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
montana, california, canada, missouri, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
19th century
Place:
nevada, tokyo, texas, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
bleak, atmospheric, breathtaking, cynical, gloomy ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, gambler, mining town, snow, gambling, winter, small town, brothel, drug addiction, wilderness, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, 70s, 1890s, 90s, edwardian era ...
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa, vancouver, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national ...
Style:
epic, tense, atmospheric, intense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, mexican revolution, revolution, rape, culture clash, redemption, mercenary, chase, haunted by the past, cynicism, friendship between men, flashback ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, ireland, northern ireland, latin america, mexico city
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23%
784K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style:
serious, emotional, thought provoking, touching, intense ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick
Plot:
gang, friendship, racism, veteran, rape, prejudice, teenager, elderly, gunfight, widower, interracial relations, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, italy, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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