Movies like The Power of the Dog

If you like "The Power of the Dog" you are looking for psychological, costume drama and mindfuck movies about / with cowboy, mother son relationship, homosexuality, male full rear nudity, power relations, male nudity and brother brother relationship themes of Drama and Western genre shot in New Zealand or UK.
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The Power of the Dog (2021)
 6.8
 192K
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: New Zealand, UK, Canada, Australia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A domineering, magnetic rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.
Style: psychological, costume drama, mindfuck, serious, tense, philosophical, disturbing, intense, period piece, deep ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: cowboy, mother son relationship, homosexuality, male full rear nudity, power relations, male nudity, brother brother relationship, animal cruelty, homosexual subtext, gay, brothers, alcoholic, son, relationships, family relations, women, teenager, brutality, repressed sexuality, ranch, homoeroticism, revenge, experiment, summer, villain ...
Time: 2020s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: australia, montana
Keyword: american, reading, visit, challenge

Most similar movies to The Power of the Dog

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about brother brother relationship, blood, death, cowboy, horse, friendship and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Western and Romance genres. Some movies like The Power of the Dog: Brokeback Mountain (2005), Legends of the Fall (1994), Hostiles (2017), Django Unchained (2012), Unforgiven (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, scenic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: world war one, love triangle, lovers, conflict, relationships, love, sibling relationship, native american, father son relationship, love story, death, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, 1910s, 1920s, 1900s, year 1995 ...
Place: america, usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
21%
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 8.2
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Unforgiven (1992)
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, suspense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: old west, revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, gunfight, hitman, sheriff, prostitute, small town, wild west, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: wyoming, kansas, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 65K
The Dressmaker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style: romantic, period piece, melancholic, satirical, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, bullying, women, dressmaker, small town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, memory, illegitimate daughter, accidental death, murder mystery, false accusation of murder ...
Time: 1950s, 1900s, year 1951
Place: australia, oceania, france, new york, milan italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
 356K
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 ⇓
19%
 7.8
 24K
Hud (1963)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and ...
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, black and white, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly
Plot: rancher, dysfunctional family, redemption, ranch, human nature, parents and children, family life, rodeo cowboy, family problems, irresponsible, father son relationship, small town ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1950s, 50s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Proposition (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric, harsh ...
Plot: aborigine, brutality, rape, cowboy, psychopath, outlaw, wilderness, gory, modern western, violence, bounty hunter, savagery ...
Time: 19th century, year 2005, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
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, cowboy, infidelity, cattle ranch, pickup truck, desert, gunfight, love triangle, introspection, human nature, homecoming, coming of age ...
Time: year 1998, post world war two
Place: new mexico, pearl harbor, california, usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 7K
Querelle (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style: sexual, controversial, erotic, art house, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, murder, surrealism, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, psychology, sexuality, glbt, serial killer ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate ...
Style: intense, realistic, witty, powerful, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexuality, homosexual, gay lead character, lgbt, gays and lesbians, gay slur, lgbtqi, lgbtq, glbt, friendship ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Boys in the Band (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Style: realistic, heartbreaking, serious, compassionate, powerful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, gay crush, gay cruising, lgbtq, male objectification, mental health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1968
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 2K
1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.0
 61K
Mommy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style: melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, oedipus complex, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, mother son relationship, mother love, teenage boy, violence, teenager, caught masturbating ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2015, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 7K
Wild Reeds (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style: realistic, sad, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, coming of age, friendship, homosexual, gay interest, masturbation, adolescence, homosexuality, small town, lgbtq, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
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The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Elder boys return to Clearwater, Texas for their Mother's funeral. John the eldest is a well known gunfighter and trouble follows him wherever he goes. The boys try to get back their ranch from the towns gunsmith who won it from their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, murder, vengeance, card playing, violence, chase, family relations, justice, gambling, brutality, redemption, shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1890s, 19th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
We the Animals (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style: captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, indie film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, lgbt, gay, coming of age, family relations, gay porn, father son relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, theft, birthday, marriage ...
Place: new york state, philadelphia, spain, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Reinventing Marvin (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young gay man determined to reinvent his life leaves everything behind on his quest for self-realization.
Style: non-linear, psychological, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay interest, gay love, gay youth, gay, gay lead character, gay son, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, gay couple, male nudity, gay club, gay relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
 7.1
 14K
Big Jake (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
Style: spaghetti western, tense, entertaining, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: manly
Plot: kidnapping, old west, cowboys and indians, texas ranger, gunfight, motorcycle, cowboy, wild west, double barreled shotgun, happy ending, good versus evil, car ...
Time: turn of the century, 20th century, year 1971, 1900s, 19th century ...
Place: texas, mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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'Doc' (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, wyatt earp, poker, gunslinger, prostitute, heroes, ballroom dancing, best friend, friends, society, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time: year 1971, 1880s, 19th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, old west, investigation, murder, cowboy, outlaw, frame up, betrayal, jail, sheriff, fistfight, rape ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Last Cowboy (2003)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: John William 'Will' Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Will's estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfather's funeral, ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: family life, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, estrangement, farm, father daughter relationship, cowboy, animal, small town, wild west, ranch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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 ⇓
17%
The World to Come (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two women who forge a close connection despite their isolation in the mid-19th-century American frontier.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, lgbt, love, lesbian couple, isolation, couple relations, death ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.3
 64K
Pale Rider (1985)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, courage, murder, greed, revenge, one against many, teenage girl, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, one man army, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1985, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA, Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.
Style: touching, lgbt cinema, disturbing, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, summer, love, gay love, homosexual, gay relationship, gay romance, first love, homosexuality, gay couple, gay teenager ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
Place: italy, nebraska, mediterranean sea, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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