Movies Like Day of the Stranger

If you liked Day of the Stranger (2019), a western and drama movie directed by Thomas Lee Rutter, 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
High Plains Drifter (1973)
★ 7.3/10Also western and drama
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.
2
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and western
Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a…
3
Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also western and drama
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable…
4
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
★ 7.2/10Also western and drama
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.
5
The Nightingale (2018)
★ 7/10Also drama and western
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of…
6
Enter the Void (2010)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasy and drama
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police…
7
The Outrage (1964)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and western
At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their…
8
Montana Story (2022)
★ 6/10Also drama and western
Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved in order to care for their ailing father.
9
13 Summers Underwater (2017)
Also drama
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
10
L'Atalante (1934)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
11
Black Swan (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
12
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
13
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
14
Balance (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance…
15
ZAPPER! (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy
In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the…
16
The White Buffalo (1977)
★ 6/10Also western
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns…
17
Rampo Noir (2005)
★ 5.7/10Also fantasy
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
18
Witch's Cradle (1944)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman…
19
Jumping (1984)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasy
A boy walks down the street and as he goes along his strides increase. Eventually he leaps over towns, forests, and oceans, seeing many things and surprising many people along the way.
20
A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk (2023)
★ 5/10Also drama
Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore peace to his disrupted lifestyle