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Movies Like Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

If you liked Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition (1994), a western and drama movie directed by Masato Harada, 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. 1Don't Come Knocking

    Don't Come Knocking (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and western

    Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over…

  2. 2Forty Guns

    Forty Guns (1957)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western and drama

    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…

  3. 3Hombre

    Hombre (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also western and drama

    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.

  4. 43:10 to Yuma

    3:10 to Yuma (1957)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    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.

  5. 5The Proud Rebel

    The Proud Rebel (1958)

    ★ 6/10Also western and drama

    Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a…

  6. 6The Last Sunset

    The Last Sunset (1961)

    ★ 6.8/10Also western and drama

    At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

  7. 7Ramrod

    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…

  8. 8Bad Day at Black Rock

    Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

  9. 9Union Pacific

    Union Pacific (1939)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and western

    One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief…

  10. 10True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also western and drama

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  11. 11Westward the Women

    Westward the Women (1951)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and…

  12. 12Hud

    Hud (1963)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and 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…

  13. 13The Bravados

    The Bravados (1958)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice…

  14. 14No Name on the Bullet

    No Name on the Bullet (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also western

    When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

  15. 15Adopt a Highway

    Adopt a Highway (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn…

  16. 16Man in the Shadow

    Man in the Shadow (1957)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and western

    In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but…

  17. 17El Dorado

    El Dorado (1966)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and drama

    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…

  18. 18Lonely are the Brave

    Lonely are the Brave (1962)

    ★ 7.4/10Also western and drama

    A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

  19. 19Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also western and drama

    Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

  20. 20The Five

    The Five (2023)

    ★ 5.9/10Also western

    A scorned woman enlists the help of five strangers to execute a bank robbery. Tensions rise as the men anxiously await her arrival with the money, leaving the crew to wonder if they have been betrayed.

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