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Movies Like Law of the Badlands

If you liked Law of the Badlands (1951), a western movie directed by Lesley Selander, 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. 1The 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.

  2. 2El Dorado

    El Dorado (1966)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western

    Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their…

  3. 3Man Without a Star

    Man Without a Star (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

  4. 4Ramrod

    Ramrod (1947)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She…

  5. 5North West Mounted Police

    North West Mounted Police (1940)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the…

  6. 6The Kentuckian

    The Kentuckian (1955)

    ★ 5.8/10Also western

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

  7. 7The Wonderful Country

    The Wonderful Country (1959)

    ★ 6.1/10Also western

    Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg…

  8. 8Rough Night in Jericho

    Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former…

  9. 9Decision 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.

  10. 10The Tall Men

    The Tall Men (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.

  11. 11Dodge City

    Dodge City (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

  12. 12Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown

    Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)

    ★ 7.7/10Also western

    When the Scooby gang visits a dude ranch, they discover that it and the nearby town have been haunted by a ghostly cowboy, Dapper Jack, who fires real fire from his fire irons. The mystery only deepens when it’s…

  13. 13Hud

    Hud (1963)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western

    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…

  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. 15The Alamo

    The Alamo (1960)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

  16. 16Run for Cover

    Run for Cover (1955)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

  17. 17¡Three Amigos!

    ¡Three Amigos! (1986)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.

  18. 18Go West

    Go West (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

  19. 19The Last Sunset

    The Last Sunset (1961)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

  20. 20Comanche Station

    Comanche Station (1960)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.

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