Movies like Appaloosa

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Appaloosa (2008)
 6.7
 64K
Appaloosa (2008)
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: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, atmospheric, rough, realistic, epic, period piece, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, native american attack, cowboy, gunfight, friendship, wild west, tough law enforcer, murder, justice, law enforcement, trust, sheriff, modern western, modern west, partners against crime, save the day, terrorizing, deception, injustice, danger, law enforcer killer, revenge, violence, betrayal, chase ...
Time: 19th century, year 2008, 1800s, 1880s
Place: texas, new mexico, iowa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, wild and suspenseful films with plots about gunfight, shootout, pistol, violence, horse, blood and murder mostly in Drama, Western and Action genres. Some movies like Appaloosa: 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Open Range (2003), Tombstone (1993), True Grit (2010), The Outlaws (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.6
 330K
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, honor, runaway, sheriff, morality, gang, outlaw, heroic mission, wild west, violence, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s
Place: arizona, tucson arizona, usa, yuma arizona, sonora ...
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 7.4
 78K
Open Range (2003)
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, contemplative ...
Plot: old west, cowboy, gunfight, violence, shootout, revenge, showdown, gunslinger, civil war veteran, vengeance, friendship, corruption ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s, 1880s
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 165K
Tombstone (1993)
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, suspense, serious, factual, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: old west, cowboy, vengeance, gunfight, lone hero, criminal, gunslinger, sheriff, friendship, revenge, betrayal, wyatt earp ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1800s, 1880s
Place: arizona, america, tucson arizona, usa, mexico ...
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100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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 7.2
 49K
The Outlaws (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting ...
Style: light, tense, intense, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cowboy, gunfight, good versus evil, wild west, small town, friendship, violent, indians, modern western, modern west, civil war, chess ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1880s
Place: usa, new mexico, arizona
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100%
A History of Violence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience: date night, manly
Plot: gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 434K
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 ⇓
100%
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
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100%
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 6.7
 55K
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during ...
Style: epic, cult classic, historical drama, retro, anamorphic ...
Plot: gunfight, cowboy, wyatt earp, gunslinger, wild west, modern west, modern western, western hero, outlaw gang, u.s. marshal, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 90s, 1870s, 1860s ...
Place: arizona, wyoming, alaska, texas, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Quigley Down Under (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: American Matt Quigley answers Australian land baron Elliott Marston's ad for a sharpshooter to kill the dingoes on his property. But when Quigley finds out that Marston's real target is the aborigines, Quigley hits the road. Now, even ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, exciting, harsh, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: genocide, vengeance, cowboy, australian outback, vigilantism, friendship, culture clash, fish out of water, gunfight, against the odds, modern west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: australia, texas, wyoming, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 27K
The Shootist (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and ...
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gunfight, cancer, wild west, widow, self defense, small town, haunted by the past, cowboy, retirement, danger, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1976, 1880s, 1870s ...
Place: tucson arizona, el paso texas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 6K
Tom Horn (1980)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ...
Style: tense, spaghetti western, retro, funny, cult classic ...
Plot: apache, brutality, justice, hanging, heroes, murder, old west, violence, gunfight, one man army, trial, rustler ...
Time: 19th century, year 1980, 1900s, 20th century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 2K
The Outsider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Quaker-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, rough, spiritual ...
Plot: amish, forbidden love, love affair, rivalry, good versus evil, murder, redemption, heroes, society, vengeance, caught in the act, opposites attract ...
Time: 19th century
Place: ohio, montana
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67%
 5.9
 24K
Jane Got a Gun (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: gunfight, gun store, family in danger, survival, murder, civil war, unlikely friendships, gang, farm, unlikely partners, family relations, modern west ...
Time: year 2015, victorian era, 1860s, 19th century
Place: usa, missouri, new mexico
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100%
 5.4
 4K
Renegades (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style: detective, suspense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, buddy cop, police corruption, car chase, violence, revenge, law enforcement, machismo, partners against crime, reluctant partners, undercover, working undercover ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 20K
Revenge (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style: sexy, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: betrayal, dangerous attraction, love triangle, couple relations, revenge, vengeance, adultery, unfaithful wife, friendship, desert, extramarital affair, love ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: native american, interracial romance, native american white relationships, american indian, native american attack, captive woman, stockholm syndrome, indian attack, squaw, captivity, moral dilemma, held captive ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
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100%
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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 ...
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50%
 6.8
 67K
Young Guns (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Style: stylized, suspense, harsh, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cowboy, old west, billy the kid, gunfight, chase, brutality, brat pack, cowboys and outlaws, wild west, vigilante, revenge, bounty hunter ...
Time: 20th century, 1870s, 19th century
Place: new mexico, america, usa, arizona, nebraska ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.5
 30K
El Dorado (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with an old indian fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Style: talky, tense, suspense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: old west, sheriff, friendship, redemption, alcoholic, shootout, vengeance, lone hero, wild west, cowboy, adaptation, righting the wronged ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, year 1967, 1800s
Place: texas, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.1
 3K
Monte Walsh (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, tense, period piece ...
Plot: heroes, old west, small town, forbidden love, against the odds, righting the wronged, society, escapades, human nature, working class, wild west, modern western ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1890s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 39K
Young Guns II (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his ...
Style: funny, period piece, cult classic, anamorphic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: native american, old west, cowboy, billy the kid, gunfight, wild west, modern west, modern western, bounty hunter, betrayal, friendship, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 1870s, 19th century, 1950s
Place: new mexico, arkansas, usa, latin america, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
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: suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, exciting, tense ...
Plot: old west, american indian, revenge, friendship, husband wife relationship, justice, u.s. marshal, drinking, politician, friend, native american, dying ...
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the ...
Style: spaghetti western, stylized, atmospheric, epic, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gunfight, old west, wild west, cowboy, small town, violence, greed, gang war, vengeance, tough heroes, brutality, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: mexico, latin america, arizona, new mexico, sonora
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 21K
Joe Kidd (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of ...
Style: cult classic, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, bounty hunter, anti hero, hostage, train, revolutionary, shootout, bandit, manhunt, landowner, civil war, revenge ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: new mexico, usa, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his ...
Style: spaghetti western, crying, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, pardon, wild west, native american, van, shootout, town, jail, machine gun, jail cell, blood, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century
Place: tucson arizona, sonora, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.0
 43K
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and ...
Style: spaghetti western, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, judge, court, u.s. marshal, hanging, guilt, justice, vigilante, cowboy, false accusation, wild west, attempted murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.2
 13K
Bad Girls (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from Cody's past won't let it happen that easily.
Style: erotic, anime, spaghetti western, rough, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: girl gang, prostitution, tough girl, prostitute, cowboy, rape, cowgirl, brothel, ranch, horse, rape victim, rape and revenge ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, victorian era
Place: texas, usa, oregon, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.2
 25K
State of Grace (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, irish gangster, homecoming, undercover, friendship, gunfight, st. patrick's day, irish mob, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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