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High Noon (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life. Just as they are about to leave, word comes that a vicious killer Kane had sent to prison years earlier, is coming to town on the noon train seeking vengeance. Kane attempts to rally the town to fight the gunman, but not even his former deputy Harvey (Diamond) is willing to help. Harvey's cowardice infuriates his girlfriend, Helen (Alonso), whose romantic past with both Kane and with the arriving gunman convinces her to pack up and leave town. As the dreaded noon hour approaches, Kane realizes he must stand alone against the coming storm.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, tension, suspense
Plot:
one against many, revenge, courage, sheriff, ex convict, cowardice, small town, train station, showdown, one man army, shootout, outlaw, last will and testament, outlaw gang, hostage, gunfight, gunslinger, bravery, marshal, marriage, fistfight, husband wife relationship, train, church, frontier town ...
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Most similar movies to High Noon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about gunfight, shootout, outlaw, revenge, showdown, small town and saloon mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like High Noon: High Plains Drifter (1973), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), The Decoy (2006), Wyatt Earp's Revenge (2012), Hell to Pay (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, spaghetti western, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, revenge, small town, anti hero, desert, greed, justice, murder, rape, mysterious man, vengeance, gang ...
Time:
19th century, year 1973, 1880s
Place:
arizona, usa, california
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Former Marshal Will Kane returns to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and finds the town in the grip of a tyrannical marshal who abuses his power.
Plot:
crooked sheriff, shootout, intimidation, showdown, arrogance, ambush, train, bounty hunter, hotel, courage, doctor, pursuit ...
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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, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, shootout, justice, gambling, redemption, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century, 1930s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california
Similarity:
88%
208
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A deputy must escort a longtime friend to be hanged for the crime of murdering his wife's parents. Along the way he discovers the startling truth about the murders, and is forced to face the real danger.
Plot:
shootout, friend, revenge, prisoner, guilt, small town, singing, murder, anger, gambling, blood, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona
Similarity:
79%
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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, partner, vigilantism, rivalry, twists and turns, wyatt earp, murder, cowboy, civil war, renegade, violent content ...
Time:
1900s, 1870s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, arizona
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ten legendary Western stars are reunited in this action-packed tale of brothers at odds-one a decorated soldier and reluctant hero, the other a gambler who keeps company with card sharks and corrupt women-in a small mining town torn apart by civil ...
Style:
hood
Plot:
soldier, shootout, armed robbery, grief, sister sister relationship, cowboy, slut, job offer, gunslinger, deputy, photograph, native american ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pistol duel, gunfight, showdown, marshal, interracial, lonely, saloon owner, small town, lone wolves, tough law enforcer, heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1969, 19th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for ...
Style:
intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robber, vengeance, greed, bank robbery, haunted by the past, stolen gold, going straight, on the run, criminal's revenge, rivalry, obsessive quest, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
california, monterey california, mexico, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
71%
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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:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense
Plot:
revenge, murder, preacher, marshal, small town, old west, death of brother, post civil war, mayor, outlaw gang, danger, gunfight ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
prison, journalism, rivalry, vengeance, bank, old west, prison escape, murder, good versus evil, danger, cowboy, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1920s
Place:
usa, yuma arizona, nashville tennessee, arizona
Similarity:
68%
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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, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bounty hunter, anti hero, hostage, train, shootout, bandit, landowner, manhunt, violence, murder, small town, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, usa, arizona, mexico, texas ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is ...
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, bank robbery, revenge, pacifist, vigilantism, heroes, squad, convent, quicksand, wild west, anti war, gory ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, latin america, usa, mexico
Similarity:
66%
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, teenage girl, mysterious stranger, greed, courage, murder, drifter, revenge, gunfight, wild west, u.s. marshal, man with no name ...
Time:
20th century, 1800s, year 1985, 80s, 1880s ...
Place:
california, sacramento california
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Wild Bill Hickok has faced many challenges on his quest to redeem himself from a colorful past as an outlaw and gunslinger. He settles as a lawman in a small town, trying to enjoy a much quieter life. Marcus Roby and his band of outlaws threaten to ...
Style:
suspense, period piece, tension
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shootout, justice, gunslinger, redemption, lawman, outlaw, small town, violence, bandit, protection, courage, showdown ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A small-town banker is forced to protect his town against a vicious gang of bank robbers determined to get the $200,000 stored in his bank.
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
bank robbery, gunfight, showdown, small town, reluctant hero, outlaw gang, justice, lone hero, isolation, violence, revenge, survival ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who'd been trying to buy safe passage for his cargo from a Mexican bandit named El Santo. Django finds that Sanders has been killed and that his rival, a man named ...
Style:
spaghetti western, tense, suspenseful, euro western
Plot:
cowboy, gunslinger, violence, revenge, vengeance, lone hero, showdown, lawlessness, bandit, anti hero, betrayal, survival ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his ...
Style:
crying, spaghetti western, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
church, cowboy, pardon, wild west, jail, jail cell, machine gun, blood, gunfight, fortress, dark hero, redhead girl ...
Time:
year 1972, 19th century
Place:
tucson arizona, sonora, arizona, mexico
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, 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, captivating, tense, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot:
lone wolves, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, murder, partner, old west, sheriff, countryside, marriage proposal, harmonica, female gunfighter ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
55%
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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:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, old west, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, criminal's revenge, betrayal, heroes, bounty hunter, vengeance, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, 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, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
rivalry, heist, cons and scams, injustice, vigilantism, small town, femme fatale, sheriff, old west, cowboy, murder, hanging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Style:
spaghetti western, ambiguous ending, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, native american, vengeance, small town, one against many, train, one man army, rescue, massacre, doctor, navajo indian, scalping ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
This movie delivers all of the great characters you would expect in a film about Tombstone. The Earp Brothers, The Clanton Brothers, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo etc. and great gunfights. What the film delivers, is a multitude of pieces of the puzzle ...
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
newspaper reporter, sheriff, suicide, old west, life & death, cowboy, death, gunfight, cowboys and outlaws, handgun, shooting, showdown ...
Time:
1880s, 1870s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Upon their arrival in Flat Oak for a semi-centennial celebration, renowned shootist Mance Dixon and his friend Clabe run into a surviving victim of a vicious vigilante group known as The Tramplers. Offering her protection once in town, matters ...
Style:
action drama, grim, tense, period piece, bleak
Plot:
shootout, massacre, small town, vigilante, showdown, gunslinger, old west, bandit, violence, revenge, frontier town, con artists ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
51%
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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, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, gold, native american, revenge, caper, chase, vengeance, rivalry, frame up, robbery, jail, old west ...
Time:
year 1967, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
usa, mexico
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Kansas Red rescues young Billy from a card-game shootout, the boy asks Red for help protecting his family from the outlaw Thorn, who’s just kidnapped Billy’s mother, Carol. As Red and Billy ride off to rescue Carol, they run into ...
Style:
heroic, period piece, suspense, tension, dramatic
Plot:
shootout, rescue, cowboy, showdown, kidnapping, outlaw, gunfight, lawlessness, sniper, mother son relationship, loner, violent ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
50%
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, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
old west, vengeance, rivalry, vigilantism, heist, family relations, fugitives, small town, sheriff, psychopath, murder, showdown ...
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
50%
360
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Duell McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town.
Framed for the murder of Sheriff John Whaley, McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him.
Style:
period piece, tense
Plot:
cowboy, corrupt sheriff, vigilantism, small town, drifter, showdown, male protagonist, lawlessness, revenge, moral ambiguity, redemption, outlaw ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front ...
Style:
spaghetti western, realistic, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, cowboy, old west, investigation, murder, rape, outlaw, betrayal, jail, sheriff, fistfight, frame up ...
Time:
19th century, year 1967
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Young rancher Kirby Frye is appointed deputy in a small town tyrannized by ruthless Phil Sundeen, the son of one of the founders of the town.
Style:
action packed, tension, suspense, independent film
Plot:
small town, deputy, corruption, justice, tyranny, rancher, courage, law enforcement, rivalry, outlaw, honor, showdown ...
Similarity:
46%
465K
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, cult classic, suspense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
old west, revenge, cowboy, redemption, vengeance, small town, sheriff, hitman, wild west, gunfight, shootout, gunslinger ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1800s, year 1992, 90s ...
Place:
wyoming, kansas, america, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
46%
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