Movies like Pioneer Woman

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Pioneer Woman (1973)
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Pioneer Woman (1973)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A homesteading family in the 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
Style: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: youth, settler, woman with a gun, prairie, heroes, murder, feminism, family relations, parents and children, fugitives, starting over, strong female presence, wilderness, wartime life, dealing with death, old west, fire, boy, single mother, mother daughter relationship, girl, brother sister relationship, female protagonist, widow, diary ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1800s
Place: wyoming, usa, nebraska, indiana

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Most similar movies to Pioneer Woman

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about old west, rivalry, heroes, murder, chases and races, gunfight and street shootout mostly in Western genres. Some movies like Pioneer Woman: The Virginian (2014), 6 Guns (2010), The Righteous and the Wicked (2010), Desolation Canyon (2006), The Long Ride Home (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 ⇓
81%
Desolation Canyon (2006)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Following a bank robbery, the responsible gang stops by the home of one of their members and kidnaps his son. The sheriff enlists the aid of a retired gunfighter, who is the boy's grandfather. On the gang's trail, they find there are two ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, gang, partners against crime, old west, abduction, rescue, murder, suspense, revenge, squad, family relations, partners ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, mexico, latin america, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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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 ⇓
66%
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 ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
58%
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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: old west, civil war veteran, criminal, love interest, murder, rivalry, battles, jousting, heroes, showdown, flashback, gunslinger ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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 ⇓
56%
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted ...
Style: realistic, tense, disturbing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: false accusation, chase, on the run, criminal, robbery, vigilantism, old west, dishonesty, partners, criminal heroes, rivalry, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wanted, tough heroes, rivalry, bounty hunter, law enforcement, dishonesty, escapades, chase, mistaken identity, false accusation, frame up, americana ...
Time: 19th century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Dead Are Countless (1969)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, fugitives, serial killer, vengeance, rivalry, military, tough law enforcer, haunted by the past, old west, revenge, u.s. army, cavalry ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
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 3K
Badland (2019)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.
Style: rough, tense, brutal, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, gunslinger, escape, sheriff, morality, fight, gunfight, veteran, old west, notoriety, chase ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ 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%
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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 ⇓
48%
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Retribution Road (2007)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A bank robbery gone wrong leads to a horrific crime and the capture of the most relentless outlaw in Texas...the infamous Johnny Rios. Incarcerated, Rios ups the ante with a daring ultimatum that gives the sleepy town of Wardlaw a rude awakening as ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: old west, vengeance, vigilantism, rivalry, heist, family relations, fugitives, small town, criminal, murder, psychopath, sheriff ...
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 2K
Barquero (1970)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boat, civil war, old west, tough heroes, gang, lone wolves, heroes, escapades, graphic violence, small western town, river battle, female gunfighter ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, arizona, mexico, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his mother is killed in a wagoncoach robbery a young man pursues the gang responsible. Matt Dillon goes after him hoping to stop him before the gang can kill him. Dillon is joined by Davis Healy, a businessman, who is hiding a few secrets of ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, vengeance, buddies, gang, rivalry, obsessive quest, partners, escapades, law enforcement, price of justice, americana, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James (2010)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After Jesse James is wounded by a bullet to the chest, Frank James splits the gang up and plans a rendezvous in four days time. With U.S.-Marshall Kane in hot pursuit, and betrayal within the outlaw band, the stage is set for a blazing and climactic ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, betrayal, old west, criminal, tough guy, siblings relations, family relations, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Trigger Fast (1994)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A feisty woman struggles to keep her ranch from being stolen by a greedy and unscrupulous land-baron named Malick. A trio of young men comes to her aid Dusty Fog, the "Kid," and Miguel. They are later joined by a fourth man named Mark, who ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sheriff, gunslinger, ranch, old west, strong female presence, injustice, escapades, good versus evil, partners, rivalry, master villain, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Plot: desert, couple relations, small town, small town life, social relations, clergy, old west, prison, death row, arizona desert, deadly, winchester rifle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
How the West Was Won (1962)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Style: exciting, epic, intense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: civil war, wilderness, old west, american civil war, gold, native american, criminal, attempted murder, small town, survival, heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1865, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s ...
Place: california, arizona, ohio, missouri, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.7
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The Warrant (2020)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After fighting in the Civil War, two Union Army buddies find themselves on opposite sides of the law with the post-war peace at risk.
Style: captivating, exciting, psychological, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot: civil war, fight, horse riding, cowboy, gang leader, death, notoriety, old west, sheriff, western hero, robbery, chase ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Desperados (1969)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the closing days of the Civil War, fanatical Parson Josiah Galt and his three sons, Adam, Jacob, and David, are leaders of a gang of southern marauders. Josiah, driven by his lust for revenge for the death of his Indian wife, attacks the Kansas ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, gloomy, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, murder, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, parents and children, death in the family, missing person, dealing with death, investigation, heroes, battles ...
Time: 1860s
Place: texas, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%