Movies like South of Heaven, West of Hell
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South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900's. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. Christmas, journey through the desert to a small town that the ruthless Henry Clan has hit in order to save Casey's love, Adelyne.
Style:
rough, serious, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, wild
Plot:
desert, old west, gang, haunted by the past, family relations, law enforcement, small town, criminal heroes, tough heroes, manhunt, outlaw gang, criminal, lesbian, civil war, marshal, heroes, profanity, rivalry, country, strong violent content, siblings relations, nudity, horse, bank robbery, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa, tucson arizona
Most similar movies to South of Heaven, West of Hell
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about shootout, gunfight, rivalry, cowboy, heroes, cowboys and outlaws and old west mostly in Western, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like South of Heaven, West of Hell: Barquero (1970), Cry Blood, Apache (1970), Joe Kidd (1972), The Gundown (2011), Death Rides a Horse (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After Jesse James is wounded by a bullet to the chest, Frank James splits the gang up and plans a rendezvous in four days time. With U.S.-Marshall Kane in hot pursuit, and betrayal within the outlaw band, the stage is set for a blazing and climactic ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, old west, outlaw, tough guy, criminal, fugitives, chases and races ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
85%
21K
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 ⇓
85%
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 ⇓
83%
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Movies like Django Unchained
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front ...
Style:
spaghetti western, realistic, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, old west, investigation, murder, cowboy, outlaw, frame up, betrayal, jail, sheriff, fistfight, rape ...
Time:
19th century, year 1967
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 ⇓
79%
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 ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
jesse james, robbery, gang, train, hanging, grandparents, caper, manhunt, bank, partner, disorder, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 1870s, 19th century
Place:
minnesota, usa, mississippi, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Style:
retro, grindhouse, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wyatt earp, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, buddy cop, shootout, revenge, vengeance, old west, gang, rivalry, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
19th century, year 1967, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, partner, buddies, escapades, obsessive quest, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, gang, law enforcement, price of justice, wild west ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, wyatt earp, poker, gunslinger, prostitute, heroes, ballroom dancing, best friend, friends, society, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1971, 1880s, 19th century
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Miraculously escaping a painful demise in the gallows, a notorious outlaw cons a crooked judge, an attractive saloon girl, and an old partner into carrying out the heist of a lifetime. As the plan gets underway, a small town sheriff makes it his ...
Style:
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Plot:
rivalry, heist, cons and scams, injustice, vigilantism, small town, sheriff, femme fatale, murder, old west, cowboy, hanging ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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.
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exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, texas ranger, renegade, horse, comanche indian, small town, desert, gunfight, shootout, chase, murder, gambler ...
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texas, louisiana, usa, mexico, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, bank robbery, revenge, pacifist, heroes, vigilantism, squad, convent, quicksand, wild west, heist, bank ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Films like Tombstone
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
revenge, old west, family relations, farm, on the run, bounty hunter, vengeance, heroes, chases and races, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, investigation ...
Time:
19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Style:
spaghetti western, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, small town, heroes, gunfight, old west, rivalry, dishonesty, wild west, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, outlaw gang, mixed martial arts ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1860s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Glenn Ford plays Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path.
Style:
retro, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
gunslinger, old west, small town, ranch, rivalry, heroes, hopes, danger, starting over, going straight, society, violent content ...
Time:
year 1969, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
arizona, yuma arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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:
spaghetti western, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, small town, anti hero, revenge, justice, greed, murder, cowboy, vengeance, rape, gang, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, year 1973, 1880s
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This movie looks at the last years (not days, as implied in the title) of famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James. The film opens in 1877 with the brothers trying to settle down after 15 years of thievery. Frank is shown to be a book-loving and ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
old west, cowboy, outlaw, gang, shootout, family relations, rivalry, criminal heroes, siblings relations, biopic, betrayal by friend, traitor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
73%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
afterlife, old west, gang, small town, heroes, horse, righting the wronged, small town life, chases and races, rivalry, on the run, vengeance ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
texas, arizona, new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 ⇓
72%
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, heroes, murder, tough heroes, investigation, gang, dishonesty, danger, chases and races, rivalry, prison, working undercover ...
Time:
year 1963, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in 1882, John Slaughter and his sidekick Savannah Starr return to a town where an almost forgotten massacre took place 20 years ago. They are determined to find the man responsible.
Style:
serious, tense, exciting, suspense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, 1880s
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72%
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 ⇓
71%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12 years ago -- Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, rivalry, chases and races, vengeance, heroes, dishonesty, buddies, friendship, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
71%
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