Movies like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An anthology film weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War.
Style:
funny, ironic, captivating, light, fairy tale, epic, surreal, parody, anthology, cult film ...
Plot:
old west, dog, cowboy, native american, wagon train, murder, violence, card playing, trapper, arizona desert, new mexico desert, multiple storylines, gold digger, bounty hunter, prostitute, suspense, gambling, dark humor, civil war, vigilante, mission, society, magic realism, bank robbery, comanche indian ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
arizona, new mexico, oregon
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Most similar movies to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, tense and cult film films with plots about gunfight, murder, horse, old west, cowboy, gun and drinking alcohol mostly in Western, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: The Hateful Eight (2015), True Grit (2010), The Harder They Fall (2021), Damsel (2018), Django Unchained (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Style:
stylized, captivating, bloody, talky, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bounty hunter, murder, gang, stagecoach, winter, dark humor, brutality, snow, twists and turns, criminal, revenge, old west ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
wyoming, usa
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90%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, cowboy, bounty hunter, old west, justice, gunfight, runaway, determination, texas ranger, teenage girl, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 20th century
Place:
arkansas, texas, oklahoma, california, usa
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, anamorphic, perverse
Plot:
old west, released from prison, murder, revenge, outlaw gang, revelation, fight, violence, vengeance, criminal, crooked sheriff, stagecoach ...
Time:
future, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, absurd
Plot:
alcohol abuse, marriage proposal, love, husband wife relationship, murder, brother brother relationship, native american, old west, money, chase, friendship, suspense ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot:
old west, revenge, friendship, husband wife relationship, u.s. marshal, justice, following someone, native american, unlikely hero, salvation, outlaw gang, politician ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Style:
talky, captivating, brutal, rough, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
racism, revenge, slavery, violent, vengeance, bounty hunter, african american, gunfight, dark humor, suspense, society, old west ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
usa, tennessee, austin texas, texas, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, not serious, absurd ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
old west, small town, irreverent, stereotypes, fall in love, male nudity, satire, notoriety, newcomer, teaching the ways of the world, self discovery, cowboy ...
Time:
victorian era, future, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
usa, arizona
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and ...
Style:
talky, humorous, sexy, lyrical, melancholic ...
Plot:
desert, homeless, death, revenge, snake, prostitute, prostitution, native americans, macabre, moral ambiguity, mentor, loneliness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, new orleans, nevada, arizona, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, factual, sentimental, scenic ...
Plot:
polyamory, mining, dancing, gold rush, friendship, loneliness, mormon, farce, stereotypes, hip hop, american history, bus ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, australia, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, stylized, light, humorous ...
Plot:
gangsters, chase, gang, small town, love and romance, dark humor, civil war, horse, hanging, marriage, cowboy, trust ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
austin texas, latin america, texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.
Style:
exciting, captivating, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hippie, lgbt, gang, friendship, bank, friendship between men, friends, disorder, stoners, criminal heroes, partners, music ...
Time:
70s
Place:
beverly hills, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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:
suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, small town, revenge, suspense, justice, greed, murder, vengeance, gang, cowboy, gunfight, rape ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, breathtaking, cynical, gloomy ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, gambler, mining town, snow, gambling, winter, small town, brothel, drug addiction, wilderness, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, 70s, 1890s, 90s, edwardian era ...
Place:
washington state, washington d.c., usa, vancouver, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american, apache territory, old west, rescue, escapades, interracial relations, left to die, tough heroes, farm, heroes, track down, kidnapping ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
new mexico, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
gunfight, cowboy, vengeance, violence, old west, revenge, showdown, civil war veteran, gunslinger, corruption, friendship, small town ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
texas, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
Style:
funny, melancholic, harsh, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, female protagonist, vengeance, redemption, ranch, justice, twists and turns, culture clash, rescue, hitman, old west ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, tense, realistic, harsh ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, old west, gunfight, sheriff, prostitute, small town, hitman, morality, prostitution ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
wyoming, kansas, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don ...
Style:
splatter, enigmatic, tense, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, friendship, wilderness, hitman, gunfight, chase, runaway, revenge, horse, crime gone awry, screwball, mentor ...
Time:
80s, 19th century, 1850s
Place:
texas, tokyo, australia, mexico, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The colourfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm is being pursued across 1,000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt ...
Style:
captivating, epic, feel good, light, exciting
Audience:
date night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, hitman, gold rush, gold, friendship between men, one last job, murder, criminal, prank, golddigger, escapades ...
Time:
1850s, 19th century, 50s
Place:
oregon, san francisco, california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
Style:
twist ending, clever, light, melancholic, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
poker, gambling, murder, serial killer, police investigation, cheating at cards, revenge, violence, gunfight, vigilante, death, destiny ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
texas, colorado, denver colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
Style:
harsh, stylized, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, native american attack, gunfight, friendship, tough law enforcer, murder, suspense, justice, law enforcement, cowboy, trust, sheriff ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
new mexico, texas, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.
Style:
humorous, talky, surreal, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, movie star, ransom, showbiz, kidnapping, actor, dark humor, journalist, screenwriter, film industry, suspense, uncover truth ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, biblical epic ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Style:
humorous, stylized, satirical, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
judge, hanging, justice, vengeance, gunfight, criminal, lawyer, lawman, vigilantism, society, starting over, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 19th century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, california, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A satire of the Great American Way, with Lemonade Joe a "clean living" gunfighter who drinks only Kola-Loca Lemonade and convinces everyone else in town (with his gun skills) that all "real men" drink ONLY lemonade!
Style:
parody, funny, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
modernism, escapades, old west, marketing, bar fight, abstinence, silly humor, satire, friends, disorder, social relations, save the day ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
prague, europe, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, hollywood, showbiz, murder, screenwriter, dark humor, neighbor, surrealism, serial killer, insanity, new job, film industry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style:
rough, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, reconciliation, widow, murder, american indian, bigotry, indian chief, military, gunfight, death, forgiveness ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
new mexico, montana, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
friendship, infidelity, cattle ranch, cowboy, desert, gunfight, love triangle, introspection, human nature, homecoming, world war two, coming of age ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
new mexico, pearl harbor, california, new jersey, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc ...
Style:
realistic, serious, factual, intense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, gunfight, cowboy, old west, lone hero, gang, sheriff, friendship, suspense, betrayal, revenge, murder ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
arizona, california, tucson arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quick-witted drifter wanders into a lawless town in the midst of a gold rush. Shocked by the prices of food and meals he reluctantly takes the job of sheriff by amazing the Mayor with his lightning quick, dead eye pistol accuracy. He makes the ...
Style:
parody, funny, feel good, humorous, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, satire, violence, courage, farce, fighting the system, greed, honest, kids and family, small town, redemption, race issues ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
colorado, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, wild ...
Plot:
adventurer, cinema, cinematographer, bar fight, armed robbery, drunkenness, highwayman, murder, stagecoach robbery, criminal, cowboy, church ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
ussr
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33%
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