Movies like The Hanged Man 1974

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The Hanged Man (1974)
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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: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild
Plot: hanging, cowboy, old west, swing, gunfighter, heroes, supernatural, life is a bitch, farm, supernatural ability, rivalry, danger, redemption, clergy, hopes, criminal heroes, mysterious character, wrongfully committed, righting the wronged, tough heroes, priest, bible, mine, land grab, tarot card ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about heroes, rivalry, old west, tough heroes, lone wolves, shootout and danger mostly in Western, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Hanged Man: Gunfight at La Mesa (2010), The Last Challenge (1967), Taggart (1964), Day of the Evil Gun (1968), The Quick Gun (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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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
Plot: revenge, old west, farm, tough heroes, master criminal, rivalry, heroes, fish out of water, law and order, murder, revenge killing, killer ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: arizona
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84%
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
Style: retro, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: captive, apache tribe, wild west, grief, renegade, rescue, child in peril, scout, hitman, battles, obsession, murderous pair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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
Plot: gunslinger, best friend, partner, gangster, battle zone, gory, small town, friendship, old west, bank, heist, small town life ...
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The Bravos (1972)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot: rescue, kidnapping, danger, heroes, military, rivalry, escapades, rebelliousness, abduction, old west, military base, fish out of water ...
Place: arizona
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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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Hard Ground (2003)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, bounty hunter, prison, reluctant partners, partner, escapades, redemption, chase, on the run, abduction, betrayal, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s
Place: arizona, usa, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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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70%
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 ⇓
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, swing, american civil war, civil war, ranger, partner, escape, heroes, lone wolves, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Place: arizona, sonora, yuma arizona, tucson arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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
Plot: bounty hunter, old west, rape and revenge, small town, vengeance, rivalry, murder, danger, vigilante, revenge, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
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Gunfight at Yuma (2012)
Genre: Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Seven Years after his wife's murder and the events that changed his life, Caleb Williams has become a gunfighter known as The Tailor.
Style: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: desert, couple relations, old west, social relations, small town, clergy, small town life, prison, death row, arizona desert, deadly, winchester rifle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, yuma arizona
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64%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Waco (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: righting the wronged, social relations, hitman, dishonesty, going straight, clergy, lone wolves, heroes, on the run, criminal heroes, rivalry, small town life ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century
Place: wyoming
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59%
Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot: partner, rivalry, gang, chases and races, vigilantism, heroes, escapades, gory, lynching, hanging, shootout, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
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Yuma (1971)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, cowboy, marshal, bar fight, righting the wronged, tough heroes, good versus evil, dishonesty, lone wolves, gang, heroes, tough law enforcer ...
Place: arizona, yuma arizona
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56%
The Bounty Killer (1965)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty killing and must choose between that violent lifestyle and the love of a beautiful saloon singer.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: bounty hunter, old west, tough heroes, relationship vs career, chases and races, heroes, misfit, rivalry, starting over, criminal heroes, social misfits, gang ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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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53%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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 ⇓
47%
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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
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45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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God's Gun (1976)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance), who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, native american, old west, heroes, one man army, vigilantism, murder, boy, tough heroes, hitman, psychopath, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 729
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
Plot: small town, prostitute, nudity, revenge, shootout, violent content, small town life, old west, vigilantism, lone wolves, good versus evil, hopes ...
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42%
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
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42%
Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sartana, cowboy, native american, investigation, violent content, witnessing a crime, heroes, tough heroes, small town, old west, murder, woman ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963)
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 ⇓
41%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Jericho (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A man, Jericho (Mark Valley), wanders into a town and gets embroiled in a deeper mystery than he bargained for.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, suspense, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, uncover truth, mysterious character, on the run, haunted by the past, heroes, redemption, chases and races, vengeance, lone wolves, memory loss, murder ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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