Movies Like Playing the Game

If you liked Playing the Game (1918), a comedy and western movie directed by Victor Schertzinger, 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
Go West (1925)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and western
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
2
Go West (1940)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and 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.
3
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…
4
Way Out West (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and western
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
5
Man Without a Star (1955)
★ 6.4/10Also western
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
6
Monte Walsh (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also western
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip…
7
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and western
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
8
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017)
★ 7.8/10Also comedy and 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…
9
Barbarosa (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also western
Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…
10
From Noon Till Three (1976)
★ 6/10Also comedy and western
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her…
11
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
★ 6/10Also comedy and western
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
12
McLintock! (1963)
★ 6.6/10Also western and comedy
Aging rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking…
13
Blazing Saddles (1974)
★ 7.2/10Also western and comedy
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias…
14
Paint Your Wagon (1969)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and western
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp…
15
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also western and comedy
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone…
16
City Slickers (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and western
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
17
BraveStarr: The Legend (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also western
Marshall Bravestarr is the lawman of the wild-west planet "New Texas" with help from Thirty-Thirty, his cybernetic talking horse and Deputy Fuzz, his sidekick and Shaman, his mentor. Bravestarr with his special powers…
18
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
★ 6.5/10Also western and comedy
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice…
19
Terror on the Prairie (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also western
A pioneering family fights back against a gang of vicious outlaws that is terrorizing them on their newly-built farm on the plains of Montana.
20
The Unholy Trinity (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also western
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana, in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn’t…