Movies like The Hanged Man

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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
Plot: hanging, cowboy, gunfighter, heroes, supernatural, life is a bitch, farm, supernatural ability, rivalry, redemption, clergy, hopes, criminal heroes, mysterious character, wrongfully committed, righting the wronged, tough heroes, priest, bible, mine, land grab, tarot card, widow, false accusation of murder, man with no name ...
Time: 70s

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Most similar movies to The Hanged Man

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, gunfight, danger, criminal heroes and lone wolves mostly in Western and Drama genres. Some movies like The Hanged Man: Gunfight at La Mesa (2010), The Last Challenge (1967), Day of the Evil Gun (1968), Taggart (1964), Long Days of Vengeance (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, old west, mysterious character, heroes, rivalry, heroic mission, injustice, life is a bitch, vengeance, destiny, farm ...
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95%
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: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: small town, fishing, gunslinger, ambush, duel, haunted by the past, marshal, native american, poker, rattlesnake, gunfighter, criminal heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, yuma arizona, arizona
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78%
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: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: captive, apache tribe, renegade, rescue, hitman, battles, scout, lone wolves, partners, life is a bitch, violence spree, murderous pair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mexico
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76%
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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, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
Plot: revenge, old west, tough heroes, farm, heroes, master criminal, rivalry, fish out of water, law and order, revenge killing, gang member, gang leader ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Long Days of Vengeance (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: After three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former Sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. He was framed by three men and wrongly convicted of the murder of his father. Now he looks for vengeance.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot: revenge, small town, righting the wronged, tough heroes, old west, frame up, haunted by the past, false accusation, dishonesty, betrayal, heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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: exciting, realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: righting the wronged, hitman, social relations, criminal heroes, dishonesty, rivalry, going straight, heroes, lone wolves, on the run, gangsters, clergy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: wyoming
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65%
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The Gundown (2011)
Genre: 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, vigilantism, track down, rivalry, kidnapping, hitman, tough heroes, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, manhunt, mistaken identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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: tense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, sheriff, farm, old west, graphic violence, religions or cults, hitman, infidelity, wilderness, heroes, clergy, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot: rivalry, old west, farm, family relations, uncover truth, graphic violence, tough heroes, heroes, orphan, parents and children, lone wolves, danger
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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: realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Plot: gunfight, wagon train, fort, heroes, rivalry, lone wolves, criminal heroes, escapades, siege, gunfighter, fistfight, native american attack ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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: serious, stylized, rough, exciting, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: horse, vengeance, hitman, gunfighter, witnessing a crime, lone wolves, gang, americana, manhunt, alcohol abuse, righting the wronged, vigilantism ...
Time: 19th century
Place: kansas, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.4
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Buckskin (1968)
Genre: 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: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, retro
Plot: marshal, hostage, bittersweet, righting the wronged, social relations, tough heroes, hopes, lone wolves, rivalry, vigilantism, dishonesty, prostitute ...
Time: 60s
Place: montana
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56%
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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: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot: rescue, kidnapping, rebelliousness, escapades, rivalry, heroes, military, abduction, culture clash, fish out of water, american civil war, military base ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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, rivalry, gang, treasure hunt, criminal heroes, chase, partners, old west, bank robbery, civil war, psychopath, on the run ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Meanest Men in the West (1974)
Genre: 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, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, old west, farm, family relations, rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, investigation, on the run, bounty hunter, betrayal, criminal heroes ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, old west, rape and revenge, small town, vengeance, rivalry, murder, suspense, revenge, strong female presence, heroes, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century
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The Righteous and the Wicked (2010)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hobbs, a notorious wanted bandit, gets caught up in a violently competitive hunt for stolen cash when he finds out outlaws have robbed the local bank. While trying to get back what's his he must saddle up to stop these outlaws leaving whomever ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, gang, rivalry, bank, old west, fugitives, lone wolves, showdown, investigation, suspense, hunt down, murder ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Long Ride Home (2003)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, lone wolves, heroes, murder, partners, old west, sheriff, countryside, cow, bandit, cemetery, mirror ...
Time: 19th century
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, partners, redemption, escapades, chase, track down, on the run, abduction, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: arizona, usa, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Quick and the Dead (1987)
Genre: 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, mysterious character, gangsters, gunfight, justice, irony of fate, showdown, heroes, social relations, half breed ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: heroes, gang, escapades, rivalry, vigilantism, golden years, partners, hanging, lynching, gunfight, reunion, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Gunslingers (2009)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While roaming the wild plains on a quest to find a cache of hidden riches, sharp-shooting bounty hunter Butch (John Elliott) and his outlaw companions come across a deadly gang with supernatural powers in this stylized Western. As the hunt for the ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: gang, bounty hunter, rivalry, plague, fugitives, cowboy, gunfight, showdown, old west, travel, murder, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Mexican Gold (2009)
Genre: 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: exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: rivalry, heist, cons and scams, injustice, vigilantism, small town, sheriff, femme fatale, murder, cowboy, old west, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Showdown (2009)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, old west, small town, cowboy, u.s. marshal, murder, moving, suspense, uninhibited rivalry, lone wolves, small town life ...
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Find a Place to Die (1968)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, mine, gang, old west, tough heroes, righting the wronged, soldier, vengeance, rivalry, rescue, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 19th century
Place: latin america, california, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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: realistic, serious, cynical, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, investigation, graphic violence, tough heroes, heroes, witnessing a crime, old west, murder, small town, gunfight, rage, chase ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: bounty hunter, old west, relationship vs career, tough heroes, social misfits, track down, starting over, heroes, misfit, lone wolves, gang, criminal heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Avenging Angel (1995)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination attempt, religion, latter day saints, conspiracy, polygamy, journal, church, oracle, religions or cults, state affairs, assassination, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
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Gun Fight (1961)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sheriff, criminal, family relations, farm, friends, tough heroes, lone wolves, vigilantism, on the run, criminal heroes, rescue, gangsters ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
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The Quick Gun (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunslinger, battle zone, heist, old west, small town, small town life, bank, friendship, hitman, farm, righting the wronged, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%