Movies like When the Legends Die
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When the Legends Die (1972)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An elderly rodeo rider becomes mentor to a young man attempting to make his own name in the business.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
rodeo, native american, mentor, native american reservation, modern west, redsploitation, rodeo cowboy, friends, alcohol abuse, orphan, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, opposites attract, ambition, elderly, aging, americana, coming of age, rebelliousness, human nature, dishonesty, hopes, cons and scams, horse ...
Time:
70s
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Most similar movies to When the Legends Die
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and touching films with plots about cowboy, horse, rivalry, society, horse riding, heroes and culture clash mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres. Some movies like When the Legends Die: Cheyenne Autumn (1964), The Last Cowboy (2003), Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Hud (1963), Smith! (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
cheerleader, modern west, family relations, nursing, retirement home, farm, couples, elderly, aging, ambition, hopes, rising to stardom ...
Time:
90s
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95%
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 ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
family life, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, farm, estrangement, father daughter relationship, small town, artist, cowgirl, death, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and ...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, cynical ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, rancher, redemption, ranch, generation gap, americana, human nature, family life, parents and children, rodeo cowboy, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
texas, california, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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True Grit related movies
258
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
disney, native american, false accusation, ranch, injustice, farm, dishonesty, society, dedicated lawyer, legal, life is a bitch, legal action ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
indigenous people, native american, mountain, wolf, missing son, kidnapping, snow, death, wind, twins, redsploitation, mythology ...
Time:
18th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Style:
semi serious, realistic
Plot:
blaxploitation, african american, gangsters, american civil war, black history, lgbt, civil war, con artists, preacher, old west, interracial relations, friends ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
923
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
"Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
rivalry, love triangle, friendship, love affair, hopes, love and romance, ambition, contests and competitions, redemption, rising to stardom, fish out of water, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, against the odds, on the road, fish out of water, culture clash, americana, obnoxious boss, rivalry, father son relationship, cowboy, native american, settler ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
missouri, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style:
rough, tense, talky, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
american civil war, military, civil war, kidnapping, chase, colonel, cattle, cowboy, irish, torture, moral ambiguity, wine ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 70s
Place:
virginia, texas, vienna, ireland, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on ... after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.
Style:
sentimental, bleak, funny, affectionate, feel good ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
brother in law sister in law relationship, father son relationship, redemption, brawl, violence, small town, hospital, melancholy, transformation, enormously long battle scene, sport, loner ...
Time:
70s, 19th century
Place:
arizona, california, australia, tokyo, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
Style:
funny, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Plot:
cowboy, friends, animal life, farm, partners, dishonesty, buddies, human nature, best friends, introspection, switching roles, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
latin america, arizona, tucson arizona, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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%
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 ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, uplifting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mormon, leadership, family in danger, intrigue, dishonesty, rivalry, redemption, society, hopes, religions or cults, bankruptcy, religious ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
missouri, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Style:
harsh, cynical, enigmatic, dramatic, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
helicopter, prison escape, chase, friendship, on the run, escape, runaway, small town, wilderness, idealism, anarchist, fighting the system ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
texas, california, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
reprisal, retribution, singer, false accusation, cattle ranch, cattleman, desperation, vigilantism, criminal, modern west, truck, irony of fate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
civil rights, racism, old man, society, golden years, dedicated lawyer, legal, fighting the system, life is a bitch, americana, false accusation, false arrest ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After escaping home, three young friends form a dynamic alliance of untamed youth. They meet an old man named Spikes with the experience only a master gunfighter can offer. The gang of men go on a crime spree and are converted to outlaws with a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
runaway, theft, teenage boy, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, farm, friends, power relations, heroes, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance similar movies
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the ...
Style:
enigmatic, melancholic, light, harsh, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
native american, horse, redemption, old west, culture clash, native americans, indians, sioux tribe, gunfight, hunting, greed, mentor ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, small western town, outlaw gang, gunfight, samurai sword, blaxploitation, martial arts, master warrior, one man army, interracial relations, teachers and students, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A story about two girls, CJ and Hanna. CJ lives on a ranch, Hanna comes to visit and decides to photograph wild horses for a school project. The girls become great friends and learn of a plot that might jeopardize the mustangs.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
horse, friendship, urban legend, self discovery, farm, coming of age, ranch, cons and scams, youth, animals, rivalry, girl horse relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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557
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy
Plot:
prison, rodeo cowboy, animal life, on the road, rivalry, ambition, underdog, self discovery, sport, mentally unstable, best friends, rising to stardom ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives ...
Style:
touching, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
rodeo, horse, horse riding, human animal relationship, riding accident, disabled person, cowboy, rodeo cowboy, father son relationship, horse trainer, autism, prairie ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Hard Hat Days Honky-Tonk Nights. John Travolta stars as a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Style:
melancholic, uplifting, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
chase, adultery, marital problem, rivalry, human spirit, suburban life, city life, social differences, class differences, cowboy, country music, contests and competitions ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, new jersey, california, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
695
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot:
youth, family relations, farm, civil war veteran, swamp, friends, social relations, nothing goes right, society, hopes, master and servant, obsessive quest ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
year 1865
Place:
arizona, usa, texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As Christmas approaches, a single mother (played by Reba McEntire) struggles to raise her son and keep up the payments on her Oregon ranch, which is difficult since she's heavily in debt. But she's a tough cookie, and proves that a ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
christmas, graphic violence, farm, family relations, single parent, old west, social relations, dishonesty, small town life, hidden identity, down on your luck, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they arrive there, each family searches a place to build a home. Kristina and Karl-Oskar ...
Style:
epic, inter cultural, captivating, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
settler, farmer, immigration, food, migration, intrigue, redsploitation, scandinavian culture, countryside, childbirth, pregnancy, native american ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1850s
Place:
minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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