Movies like The Pirates of the Mississippi

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The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963)
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The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963)
Original name: Die Flußpiraten vom Mississippi
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: horse, lawman, pirate, old west, violence, gunfight, gunslinger, street fight, boat, duel, river, pirate ship, pistol duel, gunfighter, epic battle, showdown, river battle, small western town, small town sheriff, pistol, shootout, wild west, street shootout, winchester rifle, repeating rifle ...
Place: mississippi, mississippi river

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spaghetti western, euro western, independent film and realistic films with plots about gunfight, cowboy, shootout, street shootout, pistol, violence and horse mostly in Drama, Western and Action genres. Some movies like The Pirates of the Mississippi: God Is My Colt .45 (1972), Seven Dollars on the Red (1966), Three Bullets for Ringo (1966), Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964), Two Violent Men (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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God Is My Colt .45 (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: God Is My Colt .45
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: gunfight, death, shootout, agent, gun fu, wild west, duel, fistfight, small western town, cowboy, cowboys and outlaws, old west ...
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95%
Seven Dollars on the Red (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, woman with a gun, indians, shootout, pistol, violence, murder, horse, highwayman, fast draw, showdown, outlaw ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Three Bullets for Ringo (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Pre-American Civil War Ringo and his friends rescue a young woman from kidnappers. Ringo later marries her. With the coming of the civil War Ringo finds himself at odds with one of his friends, Frank, who has joined The South and is now in the pay ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, shootout, woman with a gun, gunfight, american civil war, enemy, friend, gunslinger, outlaw, old west, gunfighter, cowboys and outlaws ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: wyatt earp, gunfight, woman with a gun, old west, danger, heroes, tough heroes, small town, shootout, double barreled shotgun, wild west, town ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Two Violent Men (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two violent men bent on revenge in the old west.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: buddy cop, wild west, shootout, fast draw, showdown, small town, murder, horse, pistol, violence, outlaw gang, outlaw ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Buckaroo avenges the death of his father.
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: revenge, town, gun fu, wild west, shootout, violence, horse, pistol, redhead, showdown, outlaw gang, gunslinger ...
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82%
Ballad of a Gunfighter (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A former Confederate robs stagecoaches to be able to give money to the local poor people. He soon runs into a gang of robbers who don't have the same good intentions he does.
Style: spaghetti western, independent film
Plot: gang of outlaws, violence, horse, pistol, small town, outlaw, cowboy, old west, gunfighter, nun, street fight, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
And His Name Was Holy Ghost (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: pistol, horse, machine gun, violence, wrongful imprisonment, small western town, cowboy, gunfight, gunfighter, gunslinger, indian chief, old west ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Blood at Sundown (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: family relations, father, shootout, wild west, violence, horse, blood, pistol, showdown, fast draw, old west, gunfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Django, a Bullet for You (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sam Foster, a bounty hunter, is wounded during a shootout and took refuge at the home of Jimmy and Mary, two brothers who live in a small farm. She cared for and healed him, explaining the concern he feels for his brother to the company he keeps. ...
Style: euro western, spaghetti western
Plot: bounty hunter, violence, pistol, small western town, old west, gunslinger, gunfight, cowboy, cowboys and outlaws, fast draw, showdown, shootout ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Pray to God and Dig Your Grave (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fernando returns home from his self chosen exile in Texas to get revenge for the death of his siblings. Instead he tries to start a revolution against the despotism of the landowners, but his relationship to his old friend Cipriano, who had turned ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: shootout, death, combat, soldier, violence, horse, pistol, revolt, outlaw, cowboy, mexican army, small western town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Durango, a debt collector, arrives in the town of Tucson, where he is hired by a bank director called Ferguson, who refuses to pay him his fee afterwards. Durango is thrown in jail on a false accusation but manages to escape and teams up with a ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: lawman, gunfighter, cowboy, killer, sheriff, outlaw, old west, small western town, gunfight, gunslinger, male female relationship, violence ...
Place: tucson arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
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.
Plot: gang of outlaws, frontier town, wild west, shootout, showdown, small western town, cowboy, bank robbery, fight, gunslinger, old west, cowboys and outlaws ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Reverend's Colt (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: showdown, pistol, wagon train, preacher, christian, religion, church, gunfighter, cowboy, cowboys and outlaws, gunslinger, outlaw gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
All Hell Broke Loose (2009)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After serving his county in the Civil War as a skilled sharpshooter, Will Drayton moved West in search of employment using his shooting skills. He ends up with the wrong type of people as a deadly assassin.
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: showdown, sniper, gunfight, violence, pistol, horse, murder, duel, pistol duel, cowboy, ranch, civil war veteran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, billy the kid, villain played by lead actor, sheriff, destiny, gunfight, outlaw, gunslinger, desert, van, violence, on the run ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Halleluja for Django (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: cowboy, shootout, jail, western hero, darkness, female bartender, punched in the face, horse, pistol, violence, anti hero, gunslinger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Return of Clint the Stranger (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story: This sequel to the popular spaghetti western "Clint the Stranger" was released four years after the success of the first film and essentially uses the same plot. George Martin returns as Clint (renamed Trinity in some countries), an ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: farm, danger, heroes, going straight, old west, family in danger, forced into action, violent content, violence, horse, cowboy, gunfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: sioux tribe, heroes, battles, western hero, showdown, burned at the stake, pistol, violence, soldier, horse, colonel, gunslinger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: sartana, cowboy, brother brother relationship, old west, child murder, shootout, wild west, child abuse, murder of a woman, vengeance, violence, cowboys and outlaws ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Son of Zorro (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Spaghetti western styled adventure of Zorro.
Style: euro western, spaghetti western
Plot: zorro, fencing, gunfighter, sword fight, adventure hero, tyrant, sword, outlaw, gunfight, dictator, duel, swashbuckler ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Barquero (1970)
Genre: Drama, 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: spaghetti western, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shootout, cowboy, boat, civil war, yacht, cigar, old west, violent content, tough heroes, escapades, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, sonora, mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Silent Stranger (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The Stranger to return the scroll to Japan. Once there he finds himself stuck in the middle of two rival clans ...
Style: spaghetti western, fast paced, euro western
Plot: drifter, gunfighter, wild west, gun fu, shootout, brawl, tough guy, outlaw gang, cowboy, hand to hand combat, fistfight, man with no name ...
Place: japan
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50%
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Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge (1988)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Duell McCall is an outlaw on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Captured by the law and coerced into helping rescue the daughter of the evil local land baron, he finds himself drawn into an ever-deepening web of lies that threatens to cost ...
Plot: shootout, mansion, female gunfighter, mexican standoff, ambush, love interest, desert, gunfight, cowboy, old west, sheriff, slave ...
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47%
Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this western, a gambler wins a big Mexican ranch and decides to herd all of the cattle upon it into Texas. The crook enlists the aide of a few Mexicans, but they don't realize he plans to cheat them. En route, the cattle drivers are ambushed ...
Style: spaghetti western, independent film
Plot: ambush, cattle ranch, shootout, outlaw, old west, rancher, cowboy, outlaw gang, ranch, gunfight, cowboys and outlaws, pistol ...
Place: mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sartana in the Valley of Death (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: sartana, cowboy, gunfighter, wild west, loot, shootout, pistol, ransom, violence, fistfight, scorpion, outlaw gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Dead Man's Revenge (1994)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bitter and vengeful fugitive Luck Hatcher, dignified former slave turned bounty hunter Jessup Bush, and wily deputy U.S. Marshal Bodine all converge in a small town so they can hatch an intricate con in order to bring greedy and ruthless railroad ...
Plot: vengeance, shootout, wild west, showdown, fast draw, cowboys and outlaws, pistol, revenge, horse, cowboy, gunfight, revenge plot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Gunpoint (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Colorado sheriff pursues a ruthless gang of train robbers into New Mexico, where he has no official jurisdiction. Accompanying him is a motley posse, including a sharp-shooting gambler whose fiancee the gang has kidnapped.
Plot: cowboy, shootout, lonely, squad, small western town, western hero, showdown, woman, wild west, horse riding, horse, pistol ...
Time: year 1966
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Lone Justice 2 (1995)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a six-year absence, Ned Blessing (Brad Johnson) returns to his hometown with his sidekick, Crecencio (Luis Avalos). There he finds a lawless hell-hole governed only by six-shooters and fists. No one in town is willing to stand up to the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: pistol, justice, horse, cowboys and outlaws, vigilantism, irony of fate, old west, small western town, gang of outlaws, cowboy, gunfight, shootout ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Wanted Johnny Texas (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Johnny Texas is recruited by the U.S. Army to find a safe passage for a wagon train and impatient settlers to the West. Johnny figures his best bet is to pay off the local band of desperadoes helmed by a psychotic outlaw. When that doesn't ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western
Plot: shootout, murder, man kills a woman, cowboys and outlaws, brawl, small western town, gunslinger, desert, outlaw, fistfight, bar fight, cowboy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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