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A Distant Trumpet (1964)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1883, US Cavalry lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from West Point, is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona, where he meets commanding officer Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending
Plot:
cavalry, military, cavalry charge, civil war, fort, cave, battles, soldier, surrender, u.s. army, equestrian, heroes, love triangle, interracial relations, society, americana, military life, wartime life, reluctant partners, officers and cadets, battle zone, power relations, horse, native american, prostitute ...
Time:
60s
Place:
arizona, usa, mexico, washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about heroes, horse, military, gun, native american, u.s. cavalry and soldier mostly in Western, Drama and History genres. Some movies like A Distant Trumpet: The Glory Guys (1965), In Pursuit of Honor (1995), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Journey to Shiloh (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a generic war story covering the enlistment, training, and operational deployment of a group of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, cynical, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cavalry, native american, cavalry charge, bar fight, rivalry, soldier, military, battles, love triangle, state affairs, survival, rebelliousness ...
Time:
19th century
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95%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
To save a group of horses slated to be destroyed by the US Cavalry, a group of officers rebel and begin a journey towards Canada to save themselves and the mounts.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cavalry, horse, horseman, insubordination, soldier, u.s. military, equestrian, u.s. army, on the road, anti war, military life, heroic mission ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, year 1932
Place:
australia, canada, washington d.c., texas
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81%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
cavalry, native american, starvation, society, homecoming, culture clash, injustice, military, life is a bitch, americana, fort, journey ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
usa, oklahoma, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on true events that happened in Banning,California, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
native american, on the run, manhunt, serial killer, native american reservation, true crime, redsploitation, civil war, squad, desert, murder, racism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join the Confederate army.
Style:
captivating, exciting, realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, iconoclastic, battles, war, buddies, military, rivalry, soldier, society, heroes, friends ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
texas, tennessee, usa, louisiana, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
civil war, guilty pleasure, farm, cowboy, tough heroes, family relations, couples, heroes, single parent, gang, love and romance, cons and scams ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, rough, disturbing
Plot:
racism, african american, native american, american civil war, blaxploitation, racial issues, slavery, military, interracial relations, battles, indian reservation, cavalry ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
new mexico, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg (Garner), rescues Ellen Grange (Andersson) from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange (Weaver). He is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american, vengeance, track down, old west, rescue, on the run, tough heroes, husband wife relationship, survival, gambler, gunfight, gunslinger ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, texas, arizona, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is ...
Style:
brutal, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american attack, apache, racism, native american, cavalry, massacre, cowboy, supernatural, cult, soldier, fort, bondage ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and ...
Style:
factual, intense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
native american, indians, native americans, civil war, apache, betrayal, interracial romance, justice, love story, unlikely friendships, prejudice, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tucson arizona, sonora, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american, apache territory, old west, rescue, escapades, interracial relations, left to die, tough heroes, farm, heroes, track down, kidnapping ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
new mexico, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, apache tribe, love, redsploitation, battles, soldier, indian war, tough heroes, war, arms dealing, military, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group under siege at an Army fort grapple with painful memories.
Style:
retro
Plot:
fort, indian attack, civil war, cavalry, fistfight, native american attack, indian war, native american, winter, gunfighter, indian tribe, discipline ...
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46%
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of ...
Style:
rough, emotional, serious, exciting, sincere ...
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, native americans, native american attack, indian reservation, murder, injustice, against humanity, massacre, buffalo, racism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
usa, south dakota, washington d.c., canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style:
rough, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, reconciliation, widow, murder, american indian, bigotry, indian chief, military, gunfight, death, forgiveness ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
new mexico, montana, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
betrayal, old west, native american attack, texas ranger, grudge, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, heroes, track down, rivalry, vengeance, false accusation ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, controversial ...
Plot:
native american attack, native american, survival, soldier, military, massacre, native american white relationships, village, fall in love, opposites attract, society, american history ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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:
murder, vengeance, injustice, false accusation, price of justice, dishonesty, manhunt, politics, lone wolves, rivalry, fighting crime, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearing the news that the war is over. Keeping the message a secret, the captain has his men go on and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, retro
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, rape, escape, fortress, soldier, prosecution, hostage, battles, old west, heroes, military ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
utah, arizona, new mexico, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, Rabb keeps the colt as a consolation in these desperate ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, exciting
Plot:
american civil war, horse, soldier, civil war, colt, military life, basic training, americana, military, daring rescue, friendship, heroism ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
virginia, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
native american attack, cowboy, man on a mission, soldier, apache indian, apache tribe, heroes, opposites attract, hopes, escapades, military, dishonesty ...
Place:
europe, italy, sonora, mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
In this western, a cavalry sergeant is wrongly court-martialed. To reclaim his good name, he takes over a patrol that just lost its leader in an Indian attack. He leads the regiment to Fort Courageous, but is appalled to discover that the Indians ...
Plot:
son, native american, raid, daughter, damsel in distress, siege, indian attack, fort, violence, father, mother daughter relationship, mother ...
Time:
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Place:
arizona, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Biopic of General George Armstrong Custer from his rise to prominence in the Civil War through to his "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, tragic ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american attack, soldier, american civil war, culture clash, civil war, cowboy, historical event, intrigue, indigenous people, conservative, congress, battles ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, retro
Plot:
revenge, flashback, cowboy, gunfight, estrangement, injustice, social relations, tough heroes, destiny, pregnancy, fall in love, small town ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ...
Style:
serious, rough, atmospheric, realistic
Plot:
desert, criminal, gang, old west, haunted by the past, law enforcement, criminal heroes, family relations, tough heroes, small town, outlaw gang, manhunt ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
arizona, usa, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
righting the wronged, soldier, military, rivalry, society, heroes, escapades, old west, american civil war, apache territory, native american attack, apache indian ...
Time:
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Place:
new mexico, arizona
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Genre: Action, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two Army officers, an alcoholic ex-Confederate soldier and a womanizing Mexican travel to Mexico on a secret mission to prevent a megalomaniacal ex-Confederate colonel from selling a cache of stolen rifles to a band of murderous Apaches.
Style:
funny, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american tribe, indian war, gunfight, civil war, apache tribe, renegade, mexican, post civil war, cowboys and indians, apache, commando mission, gay subtext ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
texas, usa, latin america, mexico
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36%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the frontier. Cable is an embittered Confederate soldier who returns from the war to reclaim his Arizona ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
american civil war, confederate soldier, battles, war hero, homecoming, moral dilemma, hopes, rivalry, introspection, military, politics, vengeance ...
Time:
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Place:
arizona, usa, texas, mexico
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35%
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Mike, Chip, and Larry are three lusty, brawling U. S. Cavalry sergeants stationed in Indian Territory in 1870.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, rough ...
Plot:
battles, old west, native american, slave, religions or cults, tough heroes, soldier, military, buddies, rescue, treasure hunt, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro
Plot:
american indian, rescue, hostage, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, cowboy, native american, civil war ...
Time:
60s, 1880s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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