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Movies Like The Wild Westerners

If you liked The Wild Westerners (1962), a western movie directed by Oscar Rudolph, 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. 1Day 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…

  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. 3Open Range

    Open Range (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western

    A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.

  4. 4Joe Kidd

    Joe Kidd (1972)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    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…

  5. 5The Quick and the Dead

    The Quick and the Dead (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.

  6. 6Rio Bravo

    Rio Bravo (1959)

    ★ 7.8/10Also western

    A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

  7. 7Young Guns II

    Young Guns II (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being…

  8. 8Pale Rider

    Pale Rider (1985)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western

    A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

  9. 9Hannie Caulder

    Hannie Caulder (1971)

    ★ 6.2/10Also western

    After she's raped by the outlaw trio who murdered her husband, a frontierswoman hires a bounty hunter to instruct her in the ways of a gun in order to exact her revenge.

  10. 10Decision 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.

  11. 11Jubal

    Jubal (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of…

  12. 12Silverado

    Silverado (1985)

    ★ 6.9/10Also western

    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…

  13. 137 Men from Now

    7 Men from Now (1956)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    Former sheriff Ben Stride, haunted by the loss of his wife in a Wells Fargo robbery, hunts for the seven men responsible for her death – along the way, encountering a couple heading west for California, and an outlaw…

  14. 14Appaloosa

    Appaloosa (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    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.

  15. 15Jane Got a Gun

    Jane Got a Gun (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    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…

  16. 16High Plains Drifter

    High Plains Drifter (1973)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western

    A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

  17. 17Forty 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…

  18. 18Young Guns

    Young Guns (1988)

    ★ 6.7/10Also western

    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.

  19. 19Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

    Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

    ★ 7.2/10Also western

    Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

  20. 20The Wild Bunch

    The Wild Bunch (1969)

    ★ 7.6/10Also western

    An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

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