Movies like The Scarlet Worm

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The Scarlet Worm (2011)
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The Scarlet Worm (2011)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, retro, controversial, spaghetti western, wild
Plot: prostitute, gunfight, brothel, assassin, torture, body mutilation, cowboy, mercenary, poetry, fistfight, murder, vengeance, revenge, old west, violence, death, tough guy, gunslinger, chase, escapades, rivalry, blood, society, planned murder, evil man ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, realistic and serious films with plots about old west, rivalry, gunfight, murder, revenge, cowboy and heroes mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Scarlet Worm: The Gunslingers (2009), Potter's Ground (2021), Nevada Smith (1966), Unforgiven (1992), Heaven with a Gun (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Gunslingers (2009)
Genre: Drama, 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, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: gang, bounty hunter, rivalry, plague, fugitives, chases and races, cowboy, gunfight, showdown, travel, danger, old west ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Potter's Ground (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A former Confederate marauder tries to make a clean start on a Texas dirt farm with his wife and young daughter. He quickly learns that sometimes the past just won't stay buried.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure, civil war, partner, escapades, treasure hunt, friendship, society, friends, rivalry, vengeance, old west, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.9
 9K
Nevada Smith (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Nevada Smith is the young son of an Indian mother and white father. When his father is killed by three men over gold, Nevada sets out to find them and kill them. The boy is taken in by a gun merchant. The gun merchant shows him how to shoot and to ...
Style: stylized, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, murder, mentor, gunfight, old west, prison, fantasy world, multiple storylines, solitude, cowboy, one man army, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966
Place: nevada, usa, arizona, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 8.2
 434K
Unforgiven (1992)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: old west, revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, gunfight, hitman, sheriff, prostitute, small town, wild west, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: wyoming, kansas, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Glenn Ford plays Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path.
Style: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: gunslinger, old west, small town, ranch, rivalry, heroes, hopes, danger, starting over, going straight, society, violent content ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century, 1870s
Place: arizona, yuma arizona, usa, santa fe new mexico
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71%
 4.1
 1K
Justice (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A U.S. Marshal seeking justice for his brother's murder defends a small town from a corrupt Mayor and his henchmen with intents to revive the civil war.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense
Plot: revenge, murder, preacher, post civil war, mayor, small town, death of brother, old west, marshal, danger, outlaw gang, gunfight ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, justice, gambling, brutality, redemption, shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Style: retro, grindhouse, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wyatt earp, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, buddy cop, shootout, revenge, vengeance, old west, gang, rivalry, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967, 1880s, victorian era
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Shroud (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1862 a Dutch widow travels to the Old West to discover the fate of her husband and learn the horrible secret of the town in which he died.
Style: suspense, captivating, contemplative, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: gunslinger, cowboy, civil war, old west, female protagonist, society, woman in danger, vengeance, violence, femme fatale, death, rivalry ...
Time: 1860s, medieval times
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.8
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The War Wagon (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, chase, vengeance, gold, revenge, native american, frame up, rivalry, jail, old west, wild west ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 19th century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
One-Eyed Horse (2008)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Hadley, Missouri 1887. Justin Gatewood has recently been released from prison for attempting to kill an old adversary, William Curry. Twenty-five years earlier, Gatewood and his brother were Confederate prisoners-of-war, and the death of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, vigilantism, tough heroes, vengeance, rivalry, obsessive quest, chase, soldier, chases and races, old west, road not taken, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 1880s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Hannah's Law (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: revenge, bounty hunter, female protagonist, female gunfighter, female fighter, heroes, family relations, on the run, rivalry, chase, society, death ...
Time: 1860s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.6
 3K
Badland (2019)
Genre: Drama, 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, suspenseful, brutal, dark ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, gunslinger, chase, notoriety, sheriff, heroes, gunfight, veteran, morality, escape, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.4
 21K
Joe Kidd (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, bounty hunter, anti hero, hostage, train, revolutionary, shootout, bandit, manhunt, landowner, civil war, revenge ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.0
 43K
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, judge, court, u.s. marshal, hanging, guilt, justice, vigilante, cowboy, false accusation, wild west, attempted murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.6
 356K
True Grit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style: tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place: texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Meanest Men in the West (1974)
Genre: Drama, 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, rough ...
Plot: revenge, old west, family relations, farm, on the run, bounty hunter, vengeance, heroes, chases and races, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, investigation ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Django Unchained (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Style: suspense, talky, brutal, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: slavery, racism, revenge, violent, bounty hunter, old west, vengeance, african american, dark humor, gunfight, hitman, racial violence ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012, 2010s, 1850s
Place: usa, texas, tennessee, mississippi, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Avenging Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A preacher (Sorbo) becomes a bounty hunter after a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church is murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot: revenge, preacher, murder, rivalry, righting the wronged, church, criminal, danger, gang, chase, bounty hunter, violent content ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
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Young Guns (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Style: stylized, suspense, harsh, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cowboy, old west, billy the kid, gunfight, chase, brutality, brat pack, cowboys and outlaws, wild west, vigilante, revenge, bounty hunter ...
Time: 20th century, 1870s, 19th century
Place: new mexico, america, usa, arizona, nebraska ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: brutality, good versus evil, rescue, partner, heroes, criminal heroes, society, husband wife relationship, murder, gunfight, gang of outlaws, showdown ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Joshua (1976)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black soldier returns from fighting for the Union in the Civil War only to find out that his mother has been murdered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a bounty hunter, determined to track down and kill the men who killed his mother.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, tough girl, blaxploitation, snake, heroes, interracial sex, rivalry, gang, good versus evil, confined, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Purgatory (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: afterlife, old west, gang, small town, heroes, horse, righting the wronged, small town life, chases and races, rivalry, on the run, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, arizona, new mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Pale Rider (1985)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, courage, murder, greed, revenge, one against many, teenage girl, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, one man army, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1985, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story (2016)
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After retiring from his life as an outlaw, ranch owner Nathaniel Reed quietly leads an honest existence with his devoted wife, Laura Lee. But his gun-slinging past suddenly comes back to haunt him when he learns that the man he once maimed during a ...
Style: exciting, suspense, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot: criminal heroes, partner, cowboy, planning, plan gone wrong, gunslinger, heist, human nature, murder, strategy, escapades, friendship ...
Time: 18th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Stalking Moon (1968)
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: apache territory, escapades, rescue, old west, half breed, farm, tough heroes, heroes, danger, left to die, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Gone Are the Days (2018)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn, a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sordid life his estranged daughter is forced to live. To save her, he must summon the inner demons he ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, wild
Plot: texas ranger, old west, redemption, estranged daughter, rescue, murder, danger, criminal, family relations, civil war, bank robber, female nudity ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.8
 12K
The Duel (2016)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, serious
Plot: murder, texas ranger, hunting, husband wife relationship, violence, gunfight, small western town, modern west, modern western, civil war, wild west, capitalism ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.6
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Deadwood '76 (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young drifter is mistaken for Billy the Kid. The concequences prove deadly.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: old west, good versus evil, fall in love, heroes, prostitute, gang, vigilantism, chases and races, rivalry, treasure hunt, society, soldier ...
Time: 60s
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Wyatt Earp's Revenge (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: gunfight, vengeance, old west, partner, vigilantism, rivalry, twists and turns, wyatt earp, cowboy, murder, civil war, revenge plot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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