Movies like Shalako

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Shalako (1968)
 5.6
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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, euro western, wild, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: opposites attract, survival, rescue, native american, gunfight, tough heroes, countess, hostage, adventurer, rivalry, danger, culture clash, cowboy, wild west, civil war, 007, apache, exodus, heroes, betrayal, horse, desert, aristocrat, duel, class differences ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, tucson arizona, sonora
Keyword: americana, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about heroes, shootout, gunfight, cowboy, old west, wild west and rivalry mostly in Drama, Western and Action genres. Some movies like Shalako: Ulzana's Raid (1972), Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990), Cry Blood, Apache (1970), Conagher (1991), Hondo and the Apaches (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is ...
Style: brutal, spaghetti western, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apache, native american attack, native, racism, native american, cowboy, wild west, cavalry, american indian, vigilante, indians, grand canyon ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american indian, cowboys and indians, heroes, kidnapping, native american attack, half breed, rescue, confined, escapades, vigilantism, rivalry, opposites attract ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Cry Blood, Apache (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Telling the story of his early life in flashback, a former prospector (Joel McCrea, with flashback sequences featuring son Jody) explains his brutal massacre of a tribe of Indians. The only survivor (Marie Gahua) agrees to lead him to a secret gold ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: apache, native american, redsploitation, apache tribe, native, old west, heroes, good versus evil, snake, murder, tough heroes, investigation ...
Time: 19th century, 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.2
 2K
Conagher (1991)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: wild west, old west, homestead, civil war, cowboy, gang, love and romance, heroes, single parent, danger, tough heroes, family relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Hondo and the Apaches (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two episodes from the TV series "Hondo" edited together and released as a feature.
Plot: apache, indian war, apache tribe, native american tribe, native american attack, captain, old west, colonel, lieutenant, cowboy, gunfight, pistol ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
54%
 6.8
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Red Sun (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An ancient Japanese sword is robbed by gangsters from the Japanese ambassador while he is traveling through west America. The embassador's bodyguard, a samurai, goes after them with the help of one of the gang leaders who was betrayed by his ...
Style: spaghetti western, epic, independent film, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: katana, train robbery, cowboy, samurai, native american, wild west, heist, samurai sword, martial arts, female nudity, train, desert ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1870s
Place: arizona, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Comancheros (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, texas ranger, renegade, horse, comanche indian, small town, desert, gunfight, shootout, chase, murder, gambler ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1800s, 60s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, mexico, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Stagecoach (1986)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stagecoach, native american attack, cowboys and indians, shootout, journey, showdown, native american, cowboy, desert, pregnancy, heroes, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century
Place: new mexico, arizona, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 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 ⇓
53%
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (Garner), rescues Ellen Grange (Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange (Weaver). He is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apache, vengeance, old west, rescue, on the run, tough heroes, husband wife relationship, gunfight, gunslinger, gambler, survival, battles ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966
Place: usa, texas, utah, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Devil's Backbone (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, serious
Plot: native american attack, apache, cowboy, man on a mission, soldier, apache indian, apache tribe, escapades, society, heroes, military, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1971
Place: europe, italy, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.3
 2K
Barquero (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing ...
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shootout, cowboy, boat, civil war, yacht, cigar, old west, violent content, tough heroes, escapades, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, sonora, mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
52%
 6.9
 9K
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 ⇓
52%
 7.4
 14K
Hombre (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Style: realistic, tense, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Plot: journey, old west, cowboy, racism, desert, loneliness, outlaw, native american, character study, embezzlement, dialogue, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: arizona, usa, yuma arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his ...
Style: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, pardon, wild west, native american, van, shootout, town, jail, machine gun, jail cell, blood, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: tucson arizona, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
51%
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The Master Gunfighter (1975)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and ...
Style: independent film, spaghetti western, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small western town, outlaw gang, samurai sword, wild west, blaxploitation, shootout, master warrior, one man army, old west, martial arts, anti hero, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1975, 1800s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native american, sioux tribe, horse, wild west, culture clash, redemption, native, gunfight, redsploitation, foreign legion, legion, colonialism ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century, 1840s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
The Last Hard Men (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century. He escapes with 6 others to exact vengeance on Sam Burgade ...
Style: perverse, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, apache territory, cowboy, civil war, rescue, progress, gilded age, on the run, kidnapping, prison, sexual assault, apache indian ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century, 20th century
Place: arizona, yuma arizona, america, tucson arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
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Red Fighter (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, suspenseful, rough, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, native american, vengeance, small town, one against many, rescue, old west, train, massacre, navajo indian, racism, one man army ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Brothers in Arms (2005)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Old West. New Soul. Big Payback.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, criminal heroes, heist, disorder, bounty hunter, tough heroes, dishonesty, vigilantism, on the run, outlaw, bank robbery, criminal ...
Place: new mexico, africa, kenya, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Mexican-American sheriff must resort to violence against a powerful rancher in order to get just compensation for the pregnant Indian widow of a wrongly killed black man.
Style: spaghetti western, clever, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: civil war, racism, murder, wild west, cowboy, chase, brutality, violence, revenge, apache, one man army, arizona desert ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: arizona, mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.5
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Joshua (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, tough girl, blaxploitation, snake, heroes, interracial sex, rivalry, gang, good versus evil, confined, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 599
Santee (1973)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, spaghetti western
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, gangster, righting the wronged, tough heroes, heroes, chases and races, dishonesty, rivalry, gang, fugitives, criminal's revenge, vigilantism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Man Called Noon (1973)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: UK, Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune ...
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: chess, memory loss, violent content, tough heroes, vengeance, chases and races, heroes, danger, escapades, rivalry, criminal heroes, old west ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 11K
Chisum (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Style: harsh, rough, serious, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: old west, bounty hunter, cattle, betrayal, justice, gunfight, aging, shootout, cons and scams, corrupt law enforcer, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: new mexico, yuma arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 11K
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 ⇓
49%
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