Movies like The Gambler Wore a Gun
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The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
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Genre: Action, Drama, 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 bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, deception, investigation, frame up, gambling, old west, heroes, farm, vigilantism, rivalry, law enforcement, false accusation, redemption, moral dilemma, dishonesty, killer, escape, violence, death, investigator, father, dancehall girl, bartender, dancer, brother ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, heroes, vengeance, deadly, old west, chases and races and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Action and Western genres. Some movies like The Gambler Wore a Gun: The Raiders (1963), Taggart (1964), A Gunfighter's Pledge (2008), Gang of Roses (2003), Johnny Reno (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, 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.
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civil war, train, american civil war, righting the wronged, farm, gang, track down, leadership, heroes, fugitives, dishonesty, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
kansas, texas
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95%
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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 ...
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serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
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Time:
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Place:
arizona
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85%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Austin's mission to locate his ...
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exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, heroes, rivalry, police corruption, law enforcement, criminal heroes, dishonesty, old west, accidental killing, escaped prisoner, death of wife ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
california
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85%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a ...
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realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
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boys' night
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old west, criminal's revenge, gang, vigilantism, good versus evil, vengeance, heroes, dishonesty, violence, showdown, woman with a gun, feminist ...
Time:
19th century
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75%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
Style:
serious, realistic, retro
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hanging, sheriff, vigilantism, murder, small town, brothers, righting the wronged, tough heroes, friends, criminal heroes, law enforcement, fugitives ...
Time:
60s, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
kansas
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73%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
Plot:
discrimination, post civil war, racism, righting the wronged, injustice, dishonesty, life is a bitch, vengeance, old west, americana, prison escape, american civil war ...
Time:
19th century
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66%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious
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Plot:
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64%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on ...
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realistic, serious, exciting
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boys' night
Plot:
gambling, bounty hunter, kidnapping, hostage, dishonesty, escapades, daring rescue, partners against crime, track down, ambition, heroes, unlikely partners ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a lesson about taking the law into one's own hands.
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realistic, serious, exciting, rough, bleak ...
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boys' night
Plot:
prison, vengeance, gang, gangsters, heroes, partners, rivalry, damsel in distress, gunfight, lawman, gang leader, attack ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
utah, arizona, yuma arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
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boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama, 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.
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realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
hitman, cattle, rivalry, state affairs, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, wiretap, old west, range war, settler, horse, murder of a woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Action, War, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.
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Plot:
wrongful conviction, crooked sheriff, escape, prison, gang, injustice, righting the wronged, disability, false accusation, murder, prison life, captivity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
minnesota
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53%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jesse Palmer, is a Vietnam Veteran who must discomfit his ex-commanding officer turned crooked senate candidate named Whalen from conspiring to turn over part of the U.S. Government to terrorists. Whalen has all the help that he can afford. ...
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boys' night
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woman with a gun, one man army, vietnam veteran, political corruption, terrorism, corrupt politician, false accusation, murder, political intrigue, rivalry, investigation, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, vietnam
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52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually ...
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Plot:
murder, cowboy, greed, framed for murder, desert, inheritance, old west, infidelity, battles, on the run, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
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50%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Gideon rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of ...
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
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boys' night
Plot:
revenge, escapades, injustice, rivalry, dangerous animal, dishonesty, vengeance, heroes, old west, life is a bitch, legal action, hitman ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
italy
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47%
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.
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serious, tense, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tough heroes, vigilantism, rivalry, vengeance, righting the wronged, hopes, lone wolves, gang, small town, crooked sheriff, old west, showdown ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
youth, orphan, murder, old west, gang, vengeance, young heroes, rivalry, obsessive quest, stress, betrayal, suspense ...
Time:
1880s, 19th century
Place:
montana
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44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. ...
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Audience:
boys' night
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bounty hunter, violent, mine, murder, small town, strong violent content, vengeance, rivalry, gang, heroes, lone wolves, old west ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
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A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
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realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an ...
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders.
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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42%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of ...
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suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
murder, vigilantism, tough heroes, rivalry, vengeance, obsessive quest, chase, soldier, road not taken, old west, suspense, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 1860s
Place:
missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jim Rendall is 6 when his family gets killed. 25 years later he finds out why.
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rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot:
strong violent content, rivalry, chase, dishonesty, obsession, family life, injustice, vengeance, frame up, law enforcement, police detective, murder ...
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90s
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39%
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been ...
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Time:
19th century
Place:
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38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Devil's 8 is a 1969 film from American International Pictures. It is about a Federal agent (Christopher George) who recruits six convicts to bust a moonshine ring.
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Time:
60s
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37%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his ...
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realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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37%
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