Movies like The Virginian 2000

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The Virginian (2000)
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The Virginian (2000)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, intense, realistic
Plot: love affair, rivalry, starting over, injustice, vigilantism, moral dilemma, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, farm, cowboy, ranch, lone wolves, artist, bar shootout, romance
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: wyoming
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and exciting films with plots about rivalry, heroes, old west, lone wolves, tough heroes, vigilantism and murder mostly in Western, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Virginian: A Cold Day in Hell (2011), Gunfight at La Mesa (2010), The Showdown (2009), Red Headed Stranger (1986), The Trail to Hope Rose (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Cold Day in Hell (2011)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, rivalry, tough heroes, small town, lone wolves, old west, escapades, danger, violent content, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, master warrior ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
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The Virginian (2014)
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), ...
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, exciting ...
Plot: rivalry, old west, family relations, farm, uncover truth, danger, violent content, heroes, lone wolves, tough heroes, orphan, parents and children
Time: 19th century
Place: wyoming, usa
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89%
Gunfight at La Mesa (2010)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, tense, scary
Plot: showdown, gunfight, rivalry, heroes, heroic mission, injustice, vengeance, life is a bitch, danger, old west, destiny, farm ...
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71%
The Virginian (1962)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. It was a spin-off from a 1958 summer series called Decision. Filmed in color, The ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: old west, team, wild west, ranch, farm, tough heroes, friends, heroes, lone wolves, ego clash, rivalry, against the odds ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1890s, 70s, 60s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Showdown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, old west, small town, cowboy, u.s. marshal, murder, danger, relocation, uninhibited rivalry, lone wolves, small town life ...
Place: texas, usa
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Red Headed Stranger (1986)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man she had left him for. It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-Loving preacher ...
Style: independent film, tense, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: cowboy, sheriff, murder, farm, profanity, violent content, hitman, religions or cults, infidelity, wilderness, old west, misfit ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana
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62%
The Trail to Hope Rose (2004)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make a living as a mine worker, closely watched by Marshal Luther Toll. The convict knows he is just one ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, marriage proposal, heroes, injustice, righting the wronged, fall in love, love triangle, interracial relations, farm, tough heroes, fired from the job, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, yuma arizona, arizona
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61%
The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: vigilantism, treasure hunt, gang, rivalry, criminal heroes, danger, chase, old west, partner, bank robbery, civil war, psychopath ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find ...
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: old west, civil war veteran, criminal, rivalry, jousting, love interest, murder, heroes, battles, showdown, flashback, gunslinger ...
Time: 19th century
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55%
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Blue (1968)
Genre: Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a mexican gang.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: moral transformation, civil war, cowboy, haunted by the past, outlaw gang, bare chested male, outlaw, ranch, family relations, righting the wronged, tough heroes, lone wolves ...
Time: 60s
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54%
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Lone Rider (2008)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosperous ranch now dangerously in debt to the town's ruthless leader, and Bobby's ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family business, homecoming, rivalry, vengeance, old west, escapades, lone wolves, small town, friendship, betrayal, landowner, danger ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, texas
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52%
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
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49%
Bonanza: The Return (1993)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: farm, journalism, vengeance, rivalry, family life, obsession, kidnapping, revenge, ranch, reunion
Time: 90s, 1900s, edwardian era
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49%
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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 ⇓
49%
Goodnight for Justice (2011)
Genre: Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: How long can you wait for justice? After being appointed Circuit Judge, John Goodnight (Perry) travels the territory dispensing justice. After returning to a town that brings back memories of his parents murders, he sees someone who looks familiar.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, justice, lawyer, vigilantism, vengeance, judge, racism, flashback, obsession, rivalry, haunted by the past, price of justice ...
Place: wyoming
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Buckskin (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Montana marshal (Barry Sullivan) fights a land baron (Wendell Corey) out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, exciting, rough
Plot: marshal, bittersweet, hostage, hopes, rivalry, heroes, vigilantism, lone wolves, prostitute, dishonesty, righting the wronged, tough heroes ...
Time: 60s
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The Hanged Man (1974)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: hanging, cowboy, swing, old west, gunfighter, wrongfully committed, supernatural, hopes, heroes, redemption, criminal heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
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6 Guns (2010)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When her family is gunned down in cold blood, a young girl convinces a bounty hunter to train her as a gunfighter so she can seek vengeance with a six-shooter.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Last Challenge (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, ambush, gunslinger, marshal, duel, fishing, native american, rattlesnake, poker, gunfighter, mind game ...
Time: year 1967, 19th century
Place: yuma arizona, usa, arizona
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Taggart (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
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Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: arizona
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Winchester 73 (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: TV Remake of the 1950 James Stewart Western movie of the same title has two brothers, one an ex-con the other a law officer, competing for possession of the famed repeating rifle.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: wild west, brother, social differences, old west, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, siblings relations, family relations, arms dealing, shootout, brother brother relationship, two brothers ...
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Town Tamer (1965)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, gunfighter, manhunt, dishonesty, lone wolves, on the run, criminal heroes, vigilantism, good versus evil, political conspiracy, witnessing a crime, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: kansas, montana
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43%
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The Quick Gun (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Style: retro, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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43%
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Once Upon a Time in Tombstone (2020)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: captivating, exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot: suicide, newspaper reporter, sheriff, gunfight, life & death, cowboys and outlaws, shooting, handgun, cowboy, death, wyatt earp, gunfighter
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The Jack Bull (1999)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, bleak
Audience: boys' night
Plot: injustice, vengeance, murder, tough heroes, righting the wronged, animal life, manhunt, fighting crime, rivalry, politics, lone wolves, dishonesty ...
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Fort Utah (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough
Plot: shootout, wagon train, fort, escapades, criminal heroes, danger, heroes, rivalry, lone wolves, siege, native american, native american attack ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
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The Shooter (1997)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story is of a small town in the early west and of a 'shooter' of reputation that drifts into it and stands up to the controlling family that runs it. But far from a John Wayne, this hero is caught and brutally beaten and left to die, ...
Style: independent film, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Tracker (1988)
Genre: Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, treasure hunt, treasure hunter, kidnapping, gangster, violence spree, lone wolves, rivalry, gang, fugitives, heroes, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, deception, investigation, frame up, farm, dishonesty, moral dilemma, redemption, rivalry, heroes, vigilantism, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
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Cattle King (1963)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: President Arthur helps a rich rancher (Robert Taylor) fight advocates of open grazing in the Territory of Wyoming.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: old west, hired killer, cattle, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, state affairs, chases and races, heroes, hitman, wiretap, brother sister relationship, alcoholic ...
Time: year 1963, 19th century, 1880s
Place: wyoming, usa
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