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The Ardor (2014)
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Original name: Ardor
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, inspirational, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Plot:
jungle, rescue, vengeance, survival, rivalry, danger, lone wolves, abduction, gang, tiger, kidnapping, heroes, forest, violence, sex scene, trap, farm, poverty, boat, land grab, blood, strangulation, attempted rape, wound, wounded ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
latin america, argentina
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Most similar movies to The Ardor
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, danger, heroes, vengeance, old west, lone wolves and chases and races mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Ardor: The Gunslingers (2009), The Journeyman (2001), The Righteous and the Wicked (2010), The Showdown (2009), Lone Rider (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, gang, rivalry, plague, fugitives, chases and races, cowboy, gunfight, showdown, danger, travel, old west ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
redemption, heroes, rivalry, vengeance, gang, on the run, betrayal, fugitives, survival, life is a bitch, family relations, family life ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hobbs, a notorious wanted bandit, gets caught up in a violently competitive hunt for stolen cash when he finds out outlaws have robbed the local bank. While trying to get back what's his he must saddle up to stop these outlaws leaving whomever ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot:
heist, gang, rivalry, bank, old west, lone wolves, fugitives, showdown, investigation, danger, murder, hunt down ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, gang, old west, small town, cowboy, u.s. marshal, murder, danger, relocation, lone wolves, uninhibited rivalry, small town life ...
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Bobby Hattaway (Lou Diamond Phillips), an honored soldier, returns home after the American Civil War to find his father's (Stacy Keach) formerly prosperous ranch now dangerously in debt to the town's ruthless leader, and Bobby's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family business, rivalry, homecoming, old west, vengeance, friendship, escapades, betrayal, lone wolves, small town, landowner, showdown ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
73%
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, psychological, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
old west, chases and races, gang, treasure hunt, escapades, vengeance, soldier, prostitute, rescue, fugitives, danger, heroes ...
Time:
60s
Place:
south dakota
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough
Plot:
cowboys and outlaws, vengeance, vigilantism, heroes, rivalry, kidnapping, tough heroes, hitman, criminal heroes, manhunt, uninhibited rivalry, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man dead. As he sets up home, in town, he discovers endless amounts of illegal activity taking place behind closed doors. Once he uncovers the men behind ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
rivalry, police shootout, fighting crime, murder, corruption, danger, lone wolves, escapades, civil war, drug abuse, clergy, criminal heroes ...
Time:
1890s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
60%
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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, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, revenge, preacher, murder, rivalry, righting the wronged, church, criminal, danger, chase, gang, violent content ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
native, wagon train, native american, woman with a gun, apache tribe, parents and children, kidnapping, conquering, old west, survival, rivalry, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once a crack sharpshooter in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He has ascended to the high country, wanting never to be heard from again.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, rivalry, escapades, lone wolves, small town, old west, tough heroes, danger, post civil war, isolation, solitude, wilderness ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Western
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, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bounty hunter, bank robbery, gang, partners against crime, old west, abduction, danger, rescue, murder, revenge, squad, partner ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, latin america, utah, mexico
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Trace Adkins (The Lincoln Lawyer), Ron Perlman (TV's "Sons of Anarchy") and Brendan Penny (Ring Of Fire) star in this gritty and riveting re-imagining of the classic Western saga. Raised by powerful cattle baron Judge Henry (Perlman), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, old west, family relations, farm, uncover truth, danger, violent content, lone wolves, heroes, parents and children, orphan, tough heroes ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa, wyoming
Similarity:
48%
214
Genre: Drama, 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:
sheriff, outlaw, friends, tough heroes, farm, family relations, lone wolves, on the run, gang, danger, vengeance, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Similarity:
47%
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, exciting, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, vengeance, gang, partner, gangster, rivalry, chases and races, heroes, danger, convict, prisoner, native american ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
utah, yuma arizona, arizona, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, 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:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bounty hunter, treasure hunt, treasure hunter, kidnapping, gangster, tough heroes, gang, rivalry, chases and races, criminal heroes, lone wolves, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
arizona, utah
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
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:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, swing, american civil war, last stand, civil war, ranger, partner, escape, lovers on the run, chases and races, desert, danger ...
Place:
arizona, sonora, yuma arizona, tucson arizona, mexico
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a desolate place called the Badlands, four men stand off with guns drawn, their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption, a son out to avenge his father's murder, a loyal servant with a secret and a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, exciting, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
intrigue, vengeance, rivalry, vigilantism, danger, utopia, society, fugitives, desert, cowboy, post-apocalyptic future, sibling relationship ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Miles Utley is a professional Mormon commando/bodyguard who is forced to turn renegade and to question his faith as he investigates a scandal involving assassination and land speculation.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination attempt, religion, polygamy, journal, latter day saints, conspiracy, oracle, church, religions or cults, state affairs, assassination, criminal heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, rescue, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder, confined, hitman, couple relations, race against time, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
Style:
period piece, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, native american, guilt, father son relationship, moral ambiguity, post civil war, tragedy, moral dilemma, hostage situation, rescue mission, misunderstanding, leadership ...
Time:
1870s
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
41%
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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apache territory, half breed, old west, escapades, rescue, left to die, danger, heroes, farm, tough heroes, native, kidnapping ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
new mexico, arizona, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gang, rivalry, tough heroes, escapades, desert, old west, murder, chase, hunt down, modern western, modern west ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, criminal's revenge, good versus evil, vigilantism, vengeance, heroes, dishonesty, violence, showdown, black, action violence, wild west ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set during the American Civil War
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot:
cowboy, partner, violent content, dishonesty, danger, escapades, lone wolves, gang, heroes, betrayal, rivalry, treasure hunt ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico, iowa, latin america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the Old West, the assassination of an ageing cowboy is thwarted by a sultry vampiress, the would-be killer left for dead in the dust. A hundred years later an ancient obsidian mirror, long unearthed from the Mesopotamian desert, is liberated from ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, good versus evil, vengeance, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, reincarnation, farm, rivalry, murder, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in Mexico, Left For Dead is a bloody and sick dream ... A spaghetti western in terror. A desperate criminal will be caught in the ghost town of Amnesty alongside a vengeful demon ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ghost, bounty hunter, danger, on the run, rivalry, vengeance, chase, small town, supernatural, trapped, struggle for survival, cowboy ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two men on a desperate search to save a woman only one of them could have!
Style:
retro, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apache tribe, captive, wild west, grief, renegade, rescue, child in peril, scout, hitman, battles, criminal heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, train, gang, mass murder, insurance agent, manhunt, loot, torture, fire, murder, faked death, hijacking ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 19th century
Similarity:
34%
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