Movies like Guns of a Stranger

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Guns of a Stranger (1973)
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Guns of a Stranger (1973)
Genre: Action, Music, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Forced to kill a young Abilene gunman in the line of duty, Sheriff Matthew Roberts, torn by anguish takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Roberts becomes known as 'The Drifter', wandering restlessly through the west. In Arizona, he aids elderly rancher, Tom Duncan, Tom's granddaughter, Virginia and kid-brother Danny (Steven Tackett) in their fight to save their small ranch from a crooked banker and his gang of outlaws.
Style: independent film
Plot: misfit, gunfight, farm, drifter, outsider, bandit, mountain, musician, singer, rescue, singing, deception, banker, bartender, marauder, grandfather, sheriff, brother sister relationship, blacksmith, brother, stranger, duplicity, rancher, cattleman, lawman ...
Time: 1880s
Place: arizona, kansas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about gunfight, violence, cowboy, bartender, ambush, rivalry and saloon mostly in Western, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Guns of a Stranger: Gunfight in Abilene (1967), He Rides Tall (1964), The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961), Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967), Taggart (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gunfight in Abilene (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of ...
Style: tension
Plot: lonely, brother, shootout, bare chested male, treachery, barfly, death of friend, cattle ranch, final showdown, vengeance, singer, singing ...
Time: year 1967, 1860s
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95%
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He Rides Tall (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous son in self defense.
Style: independent film, tension
Plot: abduction, scalping, surgeon, indian attack, outlaw gang, hate, gunfight, murder, pursuit, henchman, hostility, retribution ...
Time: 1880s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, deception, investigation, frame up, farm, dishonesty, moral dilemma, redemption, rivalry, heroes, vigilantism, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Ride to Hangman's Tree (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Plot: saloon girl, shootout, wild west, retribution, gang leader, barfly, jealousy, reprisal, damsel in distress, farce, dancehall girl, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: revenge, old west, farm, tough heroes, master criminal, rivalry, heroes, fish out of water, law and order, murder, revenge killing, killer ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: arizona
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The Raiders (1963)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad. , against the railroad.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: civil war, american civil war, train, farm, righting the wronged, heroes, rivalry, gang, lone wolves, dishonesty, military, chases and races ...
Time: year 1963, 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, kansas
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53%
Incident at Phantom Hill (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, gold, treasure hunt, apache tribe, buried treasure, post civil war, mountain, stash, partner, battles, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1865
Place: texas, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Apache Uprising (1965)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: native, apache, outlaw, stagecoach, rebellion, indian war, apache tribe, partner, tough heroes, hitman, heist, false accusation ...
Time: 60s
Place: arizona, yuma arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Virgin Cowboy (1975)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Sexploitation film set in the Old West.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot: sexploitation, cowboy, sex, jealousy, female nudity, prostitute, revenge, sex scene, brothel, seduction, cigarette smoking, betrayal ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Cattle King (1963)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: President Arthur helps a rich rancher (Robert Taylor) fight advocates of open grazing in the Territory of Wyoming.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: old west, hired killer, cattle, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, state affairs, chases and races, heroes, hitman, wiretap, brother sister relationship, alcoholic ...
Time: year 1963, 19th century, 1880s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Johnny Reno (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, tension
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hanging, sheriff, vigilantism, murder, small town, brothers, partner, fugitives, law enforcement, gang, heroes, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Decoy (2006)
Genre: 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, blood, hostage, murder, prisoner, corpse, small town, judge, guilt, husband wife relationship, gambling ...
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
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43%
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Dead Men (2018)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Jesse Struthers and his brother Jake find themselves on the run after a band of men begin murdering their family.
Style: suspenseful, tense, contemplative, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: apache indian, apache tribe, native american, cowboy, horse, apache, revenge, murder, gold mine, gold, apache territory, death ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Convict Stage (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A cowboy whose sister has been murdered by a gang of vicious outlaws seeks his revenge. But a venerable old lawman is about to teach the vigilante a lesson about taking the law into one's own hands.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, vengeance, gang, partner, gangster, chases and races, rivalry, danger, heroes, husband wife relationship, death, prisoner ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: utah, yuma arizona, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Hostile Guns (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: U.S. Marshal Gid McCool (George Montgomery) leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison in this routine western. The only female among the crooks is the dancehall girl Laura Mannon (Yvonne De Carlo), McCool's former flame. When ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: criminal, partner, tough heroes, confined, chases and races, unlikely partners, fugitives, criminal heroes, rivalry, manhunt, heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 1860s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Gunfight at Rio Bravo (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When mysterious Russian gunslinger Ivan Turchin rides into a small Texas town, he runs afoul of a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds. Outmanned and outgunned, the town must put their trust in Turchin to protect them from annihilation ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, spaghetti western
Plot: marshal, outlaw gang, sheriff, shooter, gang, killings, gunslinger, murderer, fight, gang leader, gang member, bandit ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Frenchie King (1971)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Western
Country: UK, France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
Style: spaghetti western, funny, euro western, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: female gunfighter, female fight, strong female lead, wild west, woman with a gun, women, beauty, family relations, lone wolves, criminal heroes, rivalry, gang ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s
Place: texas
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41%
The Wild Westerners (1962)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Sheriff Plummer and his men are using their badges to easily rob gold shipments and kill the drivers. Marshal McDowell and his men are looking for the killers. They catch one who is murdered to keep from talking but his killer is identified as ...
Style: independent film
Plot: outlaw, wife, female fight, shootout, treachery, acquittal, battles, van, interracial relations, american indian, singing, redemption ...
Time: 1860s
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Confederate super-spy Roy Orbison and his partner in crime Sammy Jackson travel to San Francisco near the end of the Civil War, masquerading, respectively, as a singer/guitar instructor and a magic-elixir vendor. Once there, Orbison dons a fake wig, ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, rock and roll, confederate soldier, righting the wronged, old west, heist, hotshot hero, dishonesty, heroes, espionage, rivalry ...
Time: year 1967
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Land Raiders (1969)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.
Style: spaghetti western, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: raid, rape, cowboy, slaughter, murder, battles, righting the wronged, tough heroes, chases and races, forgery, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
In a Valley of Violence (2016)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a drifter named Paul who arrives in a small town seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen, who run the town's hotel, help Paul in his quest for vengeance.
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, retro ...
Plot: cowboy, murder, modern western, modern west, dog, wild west, civil war, fistfight, drifter, dead man, redemption, war ...
Time: year 2016, victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Law of the Lawless (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Plot: judge, hanging, gunfight, fistfight, courtroom, murder, brother, revenge, dancehall girl, widow, sheriff, trial ...
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Kill or Be Killed (1966)
Genre: Western, Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A violin-playing gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family and is accused wrongly for killing 2 deputies. He is saved by an ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, horse riding, woman with a gun, cowboy, grandparents, ranch, grandmother, bar fight, little brother, violinist, old man, rancher ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Gone with the West (1974)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Enlivened by the star turns from James Caan and Sammy Davis Jr., we follow the tale of a not-so-reputable hero. Jud McGraw and a less than innocent Native American maid, known as Little Moon. They have both come to the deserted town of Black Nullar ...
Style: humorous, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, partner, tough heroes, frame up, false accusation, unlikely partners, dishonesty, fugitives, life is a bitch, rivalry, chases and races, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.
Style: funny, cult classic, spaghetti western, laugh out loud, semi serious ...
Plot: brothel, old west, woman with a gun, sex, equality, prostitute, prostitution, lawyer, cowboy, inheritance, best friend, partner ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place: wyoming, austin texas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cushing (Barbara Rhoades) is offered a pardon if she will track down a ring of gun ...
Style: funny, slapstick, not serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: female gunfighter, wild west, old west, horse, betrayal, gunfight, kidnapping, dentist, pistol duel, wagon train, stagecoach robbery, heist ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: philadelphia, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Plainsman (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Style: tension
Plot: lonely, acquittal, chief, army, bathhouse, captive, fort, female gunfighter, house, stagecoach, poker, death of protagonist ...
Time: year 1966
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, honor, runaway, sheriff, morality, gang, outlaw, heroic mission, wild west, violence, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s
Place: arizona, tucson arizona, usa, yuma arizona, sonora ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
29%
American Outlaws (2001)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. They will become the object of the biggest ...
Style: intense, entertaining, humorous, exciting, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jesse james, civil war, heroes, rebelliousness, rebellion, rivalry, dishonesty, wild west, battles, secret, courage, modern western ...
Time: year 2001, 19th century, 1860s, year 1865
Place: missouri, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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