Marshal movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant marshal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films and TV shows about / with marshal, gunfight, shootout, violence, revenge, murder, storytelling, small town, heroes and showdown plots mostly in Western, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, Mexico, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as marshal: Evil Roy Slade (1972), Five Grand (2016), Gunfight at Rio Bravo (2023), Shutter Island (2010), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (2019), Heaven's Gate (1980), The Night of the Grizzly (1966), Pale Rider (1985), Open Range (2003).
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List of marshal movies
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop ...
Style:
funny, not serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
marshal, satire, gunfight, orphan, reform, redemption, danger, chases and races, fugitives, goofy hero, rivalry, going straight ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An outlaw kills a marshal and steals his identity; a Pinkerton pursues him across the open country. He must be ruthless to survive.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
marshal, manhunt, bounty hunter, outlaw, old west, murder, pursuit, criminal, murderer, burglar, stolen identity, personality change ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When mysterious Russian gunslinger Ivan Turchin rides into a small Texas town, he runs afoul of a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds. Outmanned and outgunned, the town must put their trust in Turchin to protect them from annihilation ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, spaghetti western
Plot:
marshal, shooter, outlaw gang, sheriff, gang, killing, battles, fast draw, gang member, criminal, gunslinger, murder ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they ...
Style:
exciting, spaghetti western, retro, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, greed, chase, gold, gang, map, murder, good versus evil, danger, rivalry, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
usa, arizona, persia, colorado, turkey ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, marshal, sheriff, gunslinger, deputy sheriff, historical figure, robbery, lawman, outlaw, heist, cinema, criminal ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, period piece, controversial, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, immigrant, cattle ranch, epic battle, ranch, skinny dipping, prostitute, brothel, culture clash, gunfight, controversy, female nudity ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 1980, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, harvard university, america ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle on some land left him by a relative. He faces opposition both from a neighbor who wants that land for his own sons, and from a grizzly bear ...
Style:
natural horror, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
grizzly bear, child in peril, farm, wilderness, family relations, small town, starting over, bear, danger, against the odds, hopes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
usa, wyoming
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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, teenage girl, mysterious stranger, greed, courage, murder, drifter, revenge, gunfight, wild west, u.s. marshal, man with no name ...
Time:
20th century, 1800s, year 1985, 80s, 1880s ...
Place:
california, sacramento california
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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, sexy, stylized, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
old west, cowboy, violence, gunslinger, gunfight, shootout, revenge, showdown, civil war veteran, friendship, small town, cattle ...
Time:
19th century, year 2003, 1800s, 2000s, 1880s
Place:
montana, texas
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Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: China
TV show
Story:
He has been ambitious since he was a child, hoping to be a marshal who commands the world's soldiers and horses. He believed that to be a marshal, one must first be a general, and to be a general, one must start as a small soldier.
Style:
3d animation, mecha, captivating, exciting, inspirational
Plot:
boot camp, military, leadership, male protagonist, fictional war, infantry, outer space, army, marshal, martial arts, soldier, training ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A U.S. Marshal seeking justice for his brother's murder defends a small town from a corrupt Mayor and his henchmen with intents to revive the civil war.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense
Plot:
revenge, murder, preacher, marshal, small town, old west, death of brother, post civil war, mayor, outlaw gang, danger, gunfight ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life. Just as they are about to leave, word comes that a vicious ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, tension ...
Plot:
one against many, small town, outlaw, sheriff, showdown, ex convict, one man army, courage, revenge, train station, cowardice, shootout ...
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Best of the West is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 1981 through August 1982.
Style:
sitcom, lighthearted, situational comedy, absurd, parody ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
marshal, small town, fish out of water, old west, frontier town, lawman, civil war veteran, social satire, police, southern belle, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
Style:
action drama, suspense, grim, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vigilantism, justice, marshal, lawman, old west, sheriff, duty, gunslinger, outlaw, range war, showdown, small town ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Biography, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Piłsudski. The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Piłsudski is ...
Style:
political, historical drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
revolution, biopic, independence, political prisoner, underground movement, revolutionary, wartime life, wartime, life is a bitch, political unrest, nationalism, leadership ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
poland
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
When a prison transport plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness—freeing dozens of violent inmates—the region's lone marshal must protect the town he's vowed to keep safe.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, action thriller, tense, bleak
Plot:
desperation, law enforcement, isolation, man versus nature, survival, small town, winter, marshal, search and rescue, vigilantism, rescue mission, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style:
homoerotic, epic, period piece, freeze frame, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
buddy, friendship, shootout, old west, bank robbery, cowboy, friendship between men, last stand, gunfight, fugitive, heist, robbery ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 20th century, ancient times, year 1969 ...
Place:
bolivia, south america, wyoming, new york, latin america ...
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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:
period piece, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
old west, american indian, revenge, friendship, husband wife relationship, u.s. marshal, justice, pursuit, unlikely hero, outlaw gang, murder, marriage ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Lou Diamond Phillips and marina Black star together with Lee majors and Ernest Borgnine in a western drama. Lou plays an ex convict who tries to make a living as a mine worker, closely watched by Marshal Luther Toll. The convict knows he is just one ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
marriage proposal, prison, heroes, injustice, righting the wronged, fall in love, tough heroes, farm, love triangle, interracial relations, small town, fired from the job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, yuma arizona, arizona
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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:
satirical, humorous, stylized, exciting, spoof ...
Plot:
judge, justice, vengeance, gunfight, lawman, lawyer, society, starting over, vigilantism, friendship, corruption, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, san antonio texas, new jersey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, gloomy, tense, offbeat ...
Plot:
journey, gunfight, transformation, wilderness, indians, cowboy, murder, on the road, accountant, modern west, culture clash, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1995, 1870s, 90s, victorian era
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, pacific ocean, england
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they ...
Style:
talky, semi serious, suspenseful, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, teens
Plot:
heist, vengeance, gunfight, comanche indian, family drama, american civil war, parents and children, family relations, criminal heroes, bank, partner, robbery ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Style:
action adventure, spaghetti western, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
manly, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
courage, battle of the sexes, revenge, tough girl, u.s. marshal, spinster, shootout, teacher, outlaw gang, raft, pursuit, death of father ...
Time:
19th century, year 1975, 1880s, 70s
Place:
oregon, arkansas, usa, africa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
manhunt, on the run, cia, agent, conspiracy, escaped prisoner, escape, frame up, traitor, swamp, airplane accident, car chase ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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147K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Style:
clever, surprise ending, intense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
spy, cia, espionage, twists and turns, secret service, undercover, double agent, basic training, traitor, caper, hotshot hero, rookie ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
boston, washington d.c., peru, usa, langley virginia ...
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530K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style:
realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pistol duel, gunfight, showdown, marshal, interracial, lonely, saloon owner, small town, lone wolves, tough law enforcer, heroes, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1969, 19th century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thriller about an honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, who is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, mining, jupiter the planet, spacesuit, alien, space opera, outer space, attempted murder, tough guy, courage, marital separation, video surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1981, distant future
Place:
space western
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