Best movies like The Lone Ranger
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Plot Summary:
This version takes a look at the character in the years before he became a legend. It all begins with the introduction of Luke Hartman, a 20-year old Boston law student who witnesses the murder of his brother, a Texas Ranger. He himself is wounded in the midst of the chaos, but is rescued by the Apache Tonto... and subsequently becomes smitten by Tonto's sister Alope. He then devotes his life to avenging the death of his brother and fighting injustice, and in the process becoming a worldwide legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, stylized, realistic
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Bonanza: The Return (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cain's Way (1970)
Plot Summary:
Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have turned to lives of murder, torture and robbery. They attempt to convince Cain to ride with them once more. He refuses, and the Cutthroats murder his family. Swearing vengeance, Cain teams up with a colorful preacher/bounty hunter, and hunts down his family's killers one at a time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western, black comedy
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City of Fear (2000)
Plot Summary:
When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, UK, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, exciting
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The Sanctuary (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1897, the “Poisoned Knife” clan broke into the royal palace of Thailand to steal the Royal Antiques which the King intended to give to America as a reward for its help in negotiations that avoided Thai territorial cuts. The clan succeeded in stealing the antiques, but the thieves didn’t escape with their lives. Before their deaths, they hid the antiques somewhere close to the palace. During his interrogation, the last bandit chose to end his life by Master Sawang’s sword and let the place where the Royal Antiques were hidden die with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
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Land Raiders (1969)
Plot Summary:
An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Town Tamer (1965)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep the town as wide-open as it is. Lyle Bettger, Bruce Cabot and Richard Jaeckel co-star as the lawless bad guys in this Western based on a novel by Frank Gruber.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
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A Soldier's Revenge (2020)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor (Neal Bledsoe) spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother (AnnaLynne McCord), Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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Dead Men (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Struthers and his brother Jake find themselves on the run after a band of men begin murdering their family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, period drama
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Wushu Warrior (2011)
Plot Summary:
China, 1862: Lord Lindsey rules the opium trade and enslaves the innocent. The only hope for the oppressed nation, is a covert group of trained Wushu Warriors - The Red Lotus Society – who will fight to restore justice to its people.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Fighter (1995)
Plot Summary:
1865. A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) skills.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, splatter
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Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993)
Plot Summary:
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three deputies ride up with a warrant for Dillon's arrest, a wealthy mine operator has been gunned down in cold blood and an eyewitness says Dillon was the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hard Ground (2003)
Plot Summary:
Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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A Gunfighter's Pledge (2008)
Plot Summary:
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Austin's mission to locate his family's murderer comes to an end. The pursuit was long and difficult. Upon discovering the killer a gunfight ensues, unfortunately in the crossfire an innocent bystander is shot and injured. Once again the murderer made a quick getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Hooded Angels (2002)
Plot Summary:
A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, surreal, exciting, realistic, independent film
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The Man Who Came Back (2008)
Plot Summary:
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Far Side of Jericho (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from a corrupt posse of vigilantes, mystical Indians and a hornet's nest of villains - all are convinced that our mismatched widows hold the key to the whereabouts of their husbands' missing bank loot and a mysterious treasure. Along the way, the women must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another, blazing the trail to their destiny. A destiny buried on The Far Side of Jericho.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vigilante (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Urban Fighter (2012)
Plot Summary:
The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who are not members of gangs such as Mikey and his friends. Mikey lives on the edge, he is daring and always in trouble and fights. His brother Mathis and his friends try to avoid trouble at any cost. Revenge becomes the motive to Mikey when his brother Mathis goes missing and is killed..... Written by Generation X Group GmbH.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Plot Summary:
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
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Gang of Roses (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a 1/5 member of the Roses Gang. With the weight of grief on her heart, Rachel decides to shed her new found religious faith to bring vengeance upon her sister's killers. After placing Sally to rest, she goes in search of her former posse to assist her in the reckoning of the outlaws wrong doing.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, exciting, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful
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6 Guns (2010)
Plot Summary:
When her family is gunned down in cold blood, a young girl convinces a bounty hunter to train her as a gunfighter so she can seek vengeance with a six-shooter.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mockbuster, rough, realistic
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Avenging Angel (2007)
Plot Summary:
A preacher (Sorbo) becomes a bounty hunter after a group of refugees seeking shelter in his church is murdered by a gang of ruthless outlaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic
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Gunfight at La Mesa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tate Noble returns to the town of his youth where as a boy his parents were murdered. His childhood friend Samuel, now the sheriff of La Mesa knows who is responsible, and Tate's arrival sparks hostility between Samuel and his father Judge Carter. As the mystery unravels, Tate and Samuel enlist help from an unlikely source, the mob, in order to bring to justice the man ultimately responsible, the evil Harcourt Simms.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, scary
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Gunfight at Red Sands (1963)
Plot Summary:
An avenging stranger guns down a gang of ruthless bandits in revenge for the murder of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Coffin Full of Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Plot Summary:
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, humorous, bad ending, suspense, stylized, intense
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Texas, Adios (1966)
Plot Summary:
The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt's younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his "son". Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, grindhouse