Movies Like Sutter's Gold
If you liked Sutter's Gold (1936), a western movie directed by James Cruze, 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.
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North to Alaska (1960)
★ 6.5/10Also westernAfter striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally…
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
★ 6.6/10Also westernTo restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly…
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The Badlanders (1958)
★ 6.2/10Also westernTwo men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other…
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The Train Robbers (1973)
★ 6.3/10Also westernA gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her deceased husband so that she may return it and clear the family name.
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Cimarron (1960)
★ 6.3/10Also westernThe epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.
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Go West (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also westernA 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.
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River of No Return (1954)
★ 6.7/10Also westernAn itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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The Last Wagon (1956)
★ 6.5/10Also westernWhen a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the…
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Call of the Wild (1935)
★ 6.3/10Also westernJack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an…
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The War Wagon (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also westernAn ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the help of a partner, who could be working for his nemesis.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also westernA roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws to fend off the greedy townspeople and soon…
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Rawhide (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also westernAt a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
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How the West Was Won (1962)
★ 7/10Also westernThe epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
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3 Bad Men (1926)
★ 7/10Also westernThree outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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Return of the Gunfighter (1967)
★ 6.1/10Also westernA gunfighter and a cowboy help a Mexican girl avenge the land-related murder of her parents.
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In Old Oklahoma (1943)
★ 6.2/10Also westernCowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.
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Hombre (1967)
★ 7.1/10Also westernJohn Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3/10Also westernDan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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Bend of the River (1952)
★ 7.1/10Also westernTwo men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
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The Stalking Moon (1968)
★ 5.9/10Also westernWhile moving a group of Apaches to a Native American reservation in Arizona, an American scout named Sam Varner is surprised to find a white woman, Sarah Carver, living with the tribe. When Sam learns that she was…