Movies like The Desperados

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The Desperados (1969)
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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 town of St. Thomas. David, recalling his dead mother's prophecy of doom upon the family and repulsed by the carnage caused by his father and brothers, breaks with the gang after his brother Adam tries to rape one of the town's young girls. David is captured by his own men and brought before his father, who accuses him of treason and sentences him to be executed. David escapes, joins his wife, Laura, and together they flee to Texas, where they live for 6 years under an assumed name. After the war, Parson Galt and his sons continue to loot and pillage, and they eventually reach the Texas town where David, Laura, and their young son, Pauly, live.
Style: spaghetti western, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: american civil war, civil war, murder, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, heroes, gang, investigation, kidnapping, battles, gory, missing person, family relations, parents and children, family life, vigilantism, rivalry, manipulation, lone wolves, mentally unstable, death in the family, losing-it hero, dealing with death, violent content, rape ...
Time: year 1969, 1860s
Place: texas, kansas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, heroes, chases and races, gang, old west, vengeance and deadly mostly in Western and Drama genres. Some movies like The Desperados: The Tracker (1988), Hard Ground (2003), A Bullet for Sandoval (1969), The Raiders (1963), Arizona Raiders (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Tracker (1988)
Genre: Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell, a legendary tracker, Noble Adams is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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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, partner, escapades, redemption, chase, on the run, abduction, betrayal, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s
Place: arizona, usa, yuma arizona
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A Bullet for Sandoval (1969)
Genre: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After his girlfriend dies in childbirth, Confederate deserter John Warner (George Hilton) travels to Mexico, where the woman's father, Don Pedro Sandoval (Ernest Borgnine), grudgingly hands over his child. But with no locals willing to provide ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, battles, tough heroes, plague, destiny, babies and infants, on the run, chases and races, soldier, vengeance, heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: latin america, mexico
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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
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Arizona Raiders (1965)
Genre: Western
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
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Plot: gang, swing, american civil war, civil war, ranger, partner, escape, heroes, lone wolves, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Place: arizona, sonora, yuma arizona, tucson arizona, mexico
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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, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
Style: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, powerful ...
Plot: american civil war, native american, revenge, civil war, murder, surrender, massacre, one against many, on the run, manhunt, indians, wild west ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 20th century, year 1976, 1800s
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Gun Fight (1961)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: outlaw, sheriff, farm, friends, family relations, tough heroes, rescue, vigilantism, vengeance, lone wolves, danger, on the run ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: realistic, rough, serious, tense, exciting ...
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The Animals (1970)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman tracks down the three men who raped her, helped by an Apache. Traveling through the Old West to her new home, young schoolteacher Alice McAndrew is abducted by five outlaws headed by robber Pudge Elliott. The thugs rape Alice before leaving ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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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: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
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Time: 19th century
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Have a Good Funeral, My Friend... Sartana Will Pay (1970)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, cynical, realistic ...
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Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bret Dixon (Johnny Hallyday) returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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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
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Duration: 93 min.
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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.
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The ...
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Genre: Western
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
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Country: USA
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51%
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Country: USA
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Taggart (1964)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
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