Movies and TV shows like Klondike

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Klondike (2014)
 7.3
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Klondike (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 274 min.
TV show
Story: The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel west during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they "must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters," including mill owner Belinda Mulrooney and aspiring writer Jack London.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, exciting
Plot: gold rush, treasure hunt, gold, intrigue, friendship, greed, businessman, murder, escapades, wilderness, adventurer, snow, nature, civil war, writers, climbing, gunfight, priest, survival, jewish, friends, seduction, graphic violence, mine, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: yukon, canada

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Most similar movies to Klondike

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and tense films and TV series with plots about escapades, danger, rivalry, survival, gunfight, friendship and old west mostly in Drama, Adventure and Western genres. Some movies like Klondike: Deadwood (2004), Hell on Wheels (2011), Black Sails (2014), Gold (2013), Lonesome Dove (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deadwood (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot: sheriff, old west, power struggle, rivalry, gold rush, prostitute, gunfight, lifestyle, dishonesty, violence, society, brothel ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: south dakota, usa
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100%
 8.3
 53K
Hell on Wheels (2011)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Hell on Wheels tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, ...
Style: atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: civil war, slavery, ex military, old west, rivalry, native americans, courage, haunted by the past, rivals, historical character, ambitious, power struggle ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 107K
Black Sails (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his ...
Style: exciting, stylized, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pirate, captain, pirate ship, swashbuckler, twists and turns, graphic violence, island, gold, treasure, killings, treasure hunt, ship ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era
Place: caribbean, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.1
 1K
Gold (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: treasure hunt, gold rush, old west, adventurer, escapades, wilderness, desert, human nature, brutality, murder, civil war, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.7
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 384 min.
TV show
Story: Lonesome Dove is a Western television miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove was originally broadcast by CBS on February 5, 1989, drawing a ...
Style: realistic, touching, epic, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot: friendship, gunfight, cowboy, obsessive quest, old west, life & death, villain, texas ranger, courage, adaptation, destiny, depression ...
Time: 19th century, 80s
Place: austin texas, nebraska, montana, usa, wyoming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 853
White Fang (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, winter, snow, animals, supernatural, small town, adventurer, rivalry, youth, survival, escapades, young heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: canada, usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 3K
Shackleton (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style: serious, suspenseful, epic, realistic, exciting
Plot: survival, expedition, adventurer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, nature, leadership, ambition, forces of nature, explorer, sea ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place: antarctica, south pole, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years (1995)
Genre: Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: "Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years" begins two years after the end of "Lonesome Dove". After two years spent bounty hunting, womanizing, and drinking away the painful memories of his late wife, Hannah, Newt Call returns to town to ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: bounty hunter, rivalry, adventurer, couple relations, small town, small town life, hotel, social relations, mayor, sheriff, brothel, saloon owner ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.2
 31K
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style: atmospheric, visually appealing, cerebral, dramatic, breathtaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wilderness, hunter, friendship, human spirit, cold weather, forest, explorer, survival, snow, nature, wilderness survival, tiger ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1910s
Place: siberia, russia, japan, tokyo, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 74K
Marco Polo (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will ...
Style: exciting, captivating, epic, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: intrigue, rivalry, medieval, kung fu master, adventure hero, palace, strong violent content, culture clash, barbarian, martial arts, conqueror, warrior ...
Time: middle ages, 13th century
Place: mongolia, asia, china, venice, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Comanche Moon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Comanche Moon, the prequel to McMurtry's bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Lonesome Dove follows Texas Rangers Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Zahn) and Woodrow F. Call (Urban), now in their middle years, as they continue to ...
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: native americans, old west, friendship, partners, rivalry, escapades, texas ranger, daring rescue, native american, suspense, lone wolves, obsessive quest ...
Time: 19th century, year 1865, 1850s, victorian era, 1860s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Strange Empire (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1869 Alberta-Montana border country, “Strange Empire” is a Western whose heroes are women. With most of their men gone, and those who remain battling for control, the women struggle to survive, to find their independence, and to build a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, touching, realistic
Plot: woman, old west, power struggle, small town life, survival, small town, strong female presence, civil war, house, women, woman with a gun, female doctor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 21K
White Fang (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: dog, survival, wilderness, animals, human animal relationship, treasure, friendship, pets, beautiful scenery, disney, dog sled, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: alaska, yukon, canada, san francisco, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
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Bordertown (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic
Plot: old west, texas ranger, society, law enforcement, escapades, partners, love and romance, social relations, friends, small town, friendship, wooing ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: canada, usa
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24%
 5.5
 1K
Blackbeard (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: In the Golden Age of Piracy, at the dawn of the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation, and his reputation has become legend. Now, for the ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: pirate, treasure hunt, heroes, daring rescue, rescue, adventurer, rebelliousness, good versus evil, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, male female relationship ...
Time: 18th century
Place: caribbean, west indies, bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.7
 6K
Broken Trail (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story: Broken Trail is a 2006 Western miniseries directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel, the story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Plot: cowboy, old west, native americans, gang, brothel, nephew, fall in love, prostitute, rescue, escapades, protector, child abuse ...
Time: 19th century
Place: wyoming, usa, san francisco, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.5
 200
Klondike Fever (1980)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, atmospheric
Plot: writers, heroes, society, survival, clergy, escapades, friends, wilderness, graphic violence, card playing, prostitute, dog ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: alaska, london, england, yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 2K
Moby Dick (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min.
TV show
Story: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style: realistic, exciting, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot: ship, ocean, survival, whale, obsessive quest, hunt down, rivalry, dangerous animal, sea, self destructing, escapades, lost at sea ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Retrieval (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, road movie, realistic ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, slavery, african american, moral dilemma, survival, escapades, track down, society, racism, on the run, suspense ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
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Archer (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During the 1860s, Dave Powers, apprentice to a horse trainer, volunteers to ride Archer to the Melbourne Cup race. Their start is 600 miles from Melbourne, and the journey is anything but easy. Of course, the pair have numerous adventures along the ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: horse, escapades, ambition, rivalry, survival, race against time, contests and competitions, friends, on the road, wilderness, horse race, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.4
 2K
The Grey Fox (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. He goes to Washington to live and work with his sister's family. But the world ...
Style: gloomy, talky, melancholic, lyrical, harsh ...
Plot: train, robbery, railway, redemption, prison escape, catastrophe, prison, culture clash, lone hero, crime gone awry, mentor, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 20th century
Place: canada, british columbia, california, washington d.c., usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy, close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, return to their neighboring homes to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments.
Style: tense, suspenseful, depressing, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: civil war, american civil war, gunfight, old west, feud, revenge, violence spree, violence, murder, family relations, rivalry, suspense ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place: kentucky, west virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than gold. Crossing paths with some of the West’s most notorious figures, the three outlaws fight for ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, on the run, unlikely partners, escapades, partners, bounty hunter, friendship, old west, conspiracy, civil war, friends, criminal heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Man Called Horse (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand/accept their lifestyles. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
Style: scenic, intense, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Plot: horse, native americans, ritual, suspense, captivity, survival, lifestyle, manhood, injustice, interracial relations, indians, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 70s, 1820s
Place: usa, california, india, south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Call of the Wild (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: UK, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Academy Award winner Charlton Heston plays John Thornton, a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, bleak, touching
Audience: kids
Plot: dog sled, dog, survival, nature, animals, wolf, tomb raider, snow, forest, friends, animal life, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: alaska, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
To Brave Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
Style: captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: survival, pets, treasure hunt, starvation, wilderness, blizzard, disorder, confined, human spirit, escapades, forces of nature, fish out of water ...
Time: 70s
Place: alaska, yukon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Into the West (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min.
TV show
Story: Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as ...
Style: epic, realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: native american, native americans, indian war, old west, native american attack, american indian, tribe, native american white relationships, injustice, friendship, interracial relations, wagon train ...
Time: 19th century
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
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Wild Boys (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wild Boys is an Australian television period drama series that began airing on the Seven Network on 4 September 2011. It is produced by Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith from Southern Star and John Holmes. The series is set in and around the fictional ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, contemplative
Plot: gang, friendship, two man army, escapades, rivalry, chase, murder, society, partners, youth, cowboy, old west ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 2K
True Women (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: True Women is a sweeping saga of love, war and adventure. Spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond, True Women is the story of the love, friendship, survival and triumphs
Style: tense, epic, emotional, rough, serious ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, female protagonist, woman, woman power, american history, femme fatale, woman with a gun, emancipation, civil rights, revolution, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s, 1840s, 1860s, 1830s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 4K
Moby Dick (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: ship, sea, ocean, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, whale, captain, friendship, shipwreck, suspense, revenge, hunting ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%