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First Cow (2019)
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First Cow (2019)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A taciturn loner and skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune; soon the two collaborate on a successful business, although its longevity is reliant upon the clandestine participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, realistic, contemplative, independent film, costume drama
Plot: cow, friendship, river, immigrant, baker, forest, boat, raven, chinese immigrant, get rich quick scheme, american dream, starting over, village, thief, life is a bitch, chinaman, women, peace, woman, american history, propaganda, empathy, friendship between men, dog, business ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 1820s
Place: usa, oregon, africa, new york, china, paris france, london ...
Keyword: russian, chinese, marketplace, hawaiian, english, red, challenge

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Most similar movies to First Cow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and wild films with plots about horse, cowboy, native american, horse riding, old west, campfire and wild west mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres. Some movies like First Cow: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), True Grit (2010), The Stalking Moon (1968), Old Joy (2006), Wendy and Lucy (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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: atmospheric, bleak, cynical, breathtaking, visual ...
Plot: prostitution, snow, prostitute, mining town, old west, wild west, gambling, winter, female nudity, small town, gambler, brothel ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century, 1890s, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, usa, washington d.c., seattle, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.6
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True Grit (2010)
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, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place: texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Stalking Moon (1968)
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: apache territory, escapades, rescue, old west, half breed, farm, tough heroes, heroes, danger, left to die, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new mexico, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.8
 9K
Old Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, lyrical, talky, realistic ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, map, partner, buddies, hopes, couple relations, human nature, self discovery, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, los angeles, europe, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested ...
Style: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, depression, owner dog relationship, small town, friendship, solitude, life philosophy, on the road, character study, dysfunctional family, travel, social problems ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: oregon, alaska, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Alvarez Kelly (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A suave Mexican cattleman inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: american civil war, civil war, military, kidnapping, chase, colonel, cattle, spying, cowboy, spy, slavery, wine ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, 1860s
Place: virginia, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.4
 21K
The Rider (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives ...
Style: indie film, inspirational, suspenseful, captivating, touching ...
Plot: rodeo, horse, horse riding, human animal relationship, rodeo cowboy, riding accident, cowboy, father son relationship, horse trainer, prairie, autism, friend ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: woods, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, wilderness, old west, cowboy, friends, starting over, mind game, youth ...
Time: 1910s
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Of Mice and Men (1992)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Style: sad, emotional, touching, depressing, mind twisting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: great depression, friendship, social commentary, disability, death, loneliness, literary, drifter, mental disorder, tragedy, philosophy, medicine ...
Time: year 1992, 1900s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ride the High Country (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
Style: spaghetti western, sentimental, realistic, aesthetic, retro ...
Plot: horse, gold rush, runaway, wild west, aging, betrayal, friendship, judge, gunfight, shootout, death, drinking ...
Time: year 1962, 19th century, 1890s
Place: california, america, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.5
 15K
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
Style: atmospheric, visually appealing, surreal, stylized, serious ...
Plot: survival, road trip, family relations, old west, native american, brutality, character study, modern western, modern west, danger, escapades, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2010, 1840s
Place: oregon, usa, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Junior Bonner (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: McQueen is Junior Bonner, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on ... after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.
Style: sentimental, funny, cult classic, independent film, neo western ...
Audience: manly
Plot: brother in law sister in law relationship, rodeo, cowboy, father son relationship, small town, dysfunctional family, redemption, bar fight, brawl, hospital, violence, modern western ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: arizona, california, usa, nevada, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Django Unchained (2012)
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: suspense, talky, brutal, captivating, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: slavery, racism, revenge, violent, bounty hunter, old west, vengeance, african american, dark humor, gunfight, hitman, racial violence ...
Time: 19th century, year 2012, 2010s, 1850s
Place: usa, texas, tennessee, mississippi, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
News of the World (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
Style: touching, road movie, realistic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: native american, civil war veteran, teaching the ways of the world, rescue, friendship, runaway, cowboy, hopes, mentor, unlikely friendships, organized crime, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, dallas texas, san antonio texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.6
 6K
Damsel (2018)
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, suspense, absurd ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, alcohol abuse, love, marriage proposal, murder, husband wife relationship, native american, pursuit, chase, money, friendship, old west ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Two Rode Together (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot: american indian, rescue, hostage, cowboy, small town, chase, captivity, society, culture clash, chief, old west, civil war ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 1880s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three cowhands, between jobs, have the bad dumb luck to pitch night camp in the same valley as a cabin full of guys who just robbed a stagecoach and killed the guard. Come morning, a posse arrives, forms up along the ridge, and takes for granted ...
Style: realistic, tense, disturbing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: false accusation, pursuit, on the run, robbery, outlaw, anti hero, vigilantism, old west, partner, rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.
Style: black and white, existential, retro, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, chase, friendship, modern west, on the run, escape, indians, idealism, small town, wilderness, cowboy, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 1950s, 60s, year 1952
Place: albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Based on true events that happened in Banning,California, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot: on the run, manhunt, serial killer, cowboy, redsploitation, true crime, civil war, squad, native american reservation, desert, racism, murder ...
Time: year 1969, 1900s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Hired Hand (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, vintage
Plot: drifter, storytelling, beautiful scenery, heist, landscape, badass, scenery, showdown, old west, murder, farm, death of protagonist ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
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Grey Owl (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and ...
Style: period piece, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: native american, trapper, environmental, environment, biopic, nature, wilderness, survival, 007, scenery, iroquois tribe, native ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: canada, england, europe, montreal, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.3
 7K
The Claim (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: redemption, character study, haunted by the past, couple relations, couples, parents and children, ex husband ex wife relationship, small town, betrayal, father daughter relationship, old west, death ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 2K
Conagher (1991)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: wild west, old west, homestead, civil war, cowboy, gang, love and romance, heroes, single parent, danger, tough heroes, family relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Zandy's Bride (1974)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.
Style: spaghetti western, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: mail order bride, woman power, married, mad love, kidnapped, rape, family relations, ranch, arranged marriage, wrestling, bear, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
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One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured. Years later, Rio escapes from the prison where he has been since, and hunts down Dad for ...
Style: intense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, betrayal, vengeance, greed, bank robbery, stolen gold, going straight, haunted by the past, criminal's revenge, on the run, obsessive quest, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1961, 60s, 20th century, 1880s
Place: california, monterey california, mexico, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 35K
The Homesman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, realistic, bleak, depressing ...
Plot: old west, twists and turns, mental illness, suicide, wild west, human nature, depression, native american, anti hero, obsessive quest, unlikely partners, partner ...
Time: 19th century, year 2014, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 11K
The War Wagon (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
Style: exciting, intense, humorous, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, chase, vengeance, gold, revenge, native american, frame up, rivalry, jail, old west, wild west ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 19th century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 95K
Hostiles (2017)
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, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: native american, native american reservation, indian chief, reconciliation, widow, murder, american indian, wild west, bigotry, military, gunfight, hostility ...
Time: 19th century, year 2017, 90s, victorian era, 2010s ...
Place: new mexico, montana, america, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 15K
Certain Women (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The lives of four women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, ironic, disturbing, heartfelt ...
Plot: ranch, lesbian interest, loneliness, lesbian, flirting, dysfunctional relationship, feminist, marriage, lgbt, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 1918, year 1966, year 1975, year 1959
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
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, artsy, historical drama, powerful, epic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, hitman, gold rush, gold, wild west, friendship between men, one last job, murder, prank, golddigger, escapades ...
Time: 1850s, 19th century, 2010s
Place: oregon, san francisco, california, pacific ocean, palo alto california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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