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Movies Like Desperadoes of the West

If you liked Desperadoes of the West (1950), a western movie directed by Frank C. Brannon, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

  2. 2Barbarosa

    Barbarosa (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…

  3. 3The Comancheros

    The Comancheros (1961)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

  4. 4The Bravados

    The Bravados (1958)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice…

  5. 5Decision at Sundown

    Decision at Sundown (1957)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

  6. 6Boss Nigger

    Boss Nigger (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.

  7. 7Three Violent People

    Three Violent People (1956)

    ★ 6/10Also western

    A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas.

  8. 8Forty Guns

    Forty Guns (1957)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both…

  9. 9Billy Two Hats

    Billy Two Hats (1974)

    ★ 5.8/10Also western

    After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but Sheriff Henry Gifford is determined to capture or kill them.

  10. 10Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

    Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War…

  11. 11Day of the Outlaw

    Day of the Outlaw (1959)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder…

  12. 12Firecreek

    Firecreek (1968)

    ★ 6.2/10Also western

    A peace-loving, part-time sheriff in the small town of Firecreek must take a stand when a gang of vicious outlaws takes over his town.

  13. 13The Cheyenne Social Club

    The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    Cowboy John O'Hanlan is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He sets out to claim it, only to discover it's a brothel.

  14. 14Rio Lobo

    Rio Lobo (1970)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

  15. 15Death of a Gunfighter

    Death of a Gunfighter (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood 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…

  16. 16The Call of the Wild

    The Call of the Wild (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also western

    John Thornton, is 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 the deadly 600 miles…

  17. 17Gunman's Walk

    Gunman's Walk (1958)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

  18. 18Frontera

    Frontera (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s…

  19. 19Gunless

    Gunless (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.

  20. 20The Kentuckian

    The Kentuckian (1955)

    ★ 5.8/10Also western

    A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.

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