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Movies Like The Texas Rangers

If you liked The Texas Rangers (1936), a western movie directed by King Vidor, 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. 2Hombre

    Hombre (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western

    John 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.

  3. 3The Last Wagon

    The Last Wagon (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10Also western

    When 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…

  4. 4The 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.

  5. 5Go 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.

  6. 6The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

    ★ 7.8/10Also western

    Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of…

  7. 7El 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…

  8. 8The Kentuckian

    The Kentuckian (1955)

    ★ 5.8/10Also western

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

  9. 9Tall in the Saddle

    Tall in the Saddle (1944)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.

  10. 10Hud

    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…

  11. 11Man Without a Star

    Man Without a Star (1955)

    ★ 6.4/10Also western

    A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

  12. 12The Indian Fighter

    The Indian Fighter (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also western

    A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

  13. 13Rio Grande

    Rio Grande (1950)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western

    Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is…

  14. 14¡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.

  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. 16North 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…

  17. 17Scooby-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…

  18. 183:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma (1957)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western

    Dan 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.

  19. 19In Old Oklahoma

    In Old Oklahoma (1943)

    ★ 6.2/10Also western

    Cowboy 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.

  20. 20Dodge 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.

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