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Plot Summary:
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: epic, humorous, sentimental, captivating, disturbing, breathtaking, realistic, scenic, picaresque, parody
Best tv shows and movies like Little Big Man (1970):
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The Frisco Kid (1979)
Plot Summary:
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, talky, semi serious, funny, clever, slapstick, entertaining, slapstick comedy, offbeat
Similar in 83%
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Plot Summary:
A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyennes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, retro, period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, 70mm film
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The Hallelujah Trail (1965)
Plot Summary:
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, epic, slapstick, 70mm film
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The Scalphunters (1968)
Plot Summary:
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, cult classic, slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Blazing Saddles (1974)
Plot Summary:
A town – where everyone seems to be named Johnson – is in the way of the railroad and, in order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, cult classic, funny, hilarious, slapstick, light, talky, exciting
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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
Plot Summary:
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: cynical, funny, spaghetti western, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, semi serious
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The Cowboys (1972)
Plot Summary:
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen's tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, funny, cult classic, rough, realistic, tense
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Two Rode Together (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, cynical, suspenseful, retro, spaghetti western, vintage, wild
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Wagons East (1994)
Plot Summary:
After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, satirical, not serious, funny, mockbuster, clever, unusual plot structure, bad ending, melancholic
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Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Plot Summary:
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action adventure, realistic, semi serious, black cinema
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Ulzana's Raid (1972)
Plot Summary:
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is McIntosh, an experienced scout, and Ke-Ni-Tay, an Apache guide. Ulzana massacres, rapes and loots across the countryside; and as DeBuin encounters the remains of his victims, he is compelled to learn from McIntosh and to confront his own naivity and hidden prejudices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, spaghetti western, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, wild, cult film
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, exciting, sincere, realistic, political, historical drama, anthropological, epic
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Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Plot Summary:
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, whi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, factual, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, anamorphic, cult classic, sincere, rough
Similar in 87%
How the West Was Won (1962)
Plot Summary:
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, intense, serious, realistic, breathtaking, retro, offbeat, anthology, aesthetic
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Major Dundee (1965)
Plot Summary:
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sad, perverse, cult classic, rough, epic
Similar in 88%
The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. They must regain their land, led by Horse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, spaghetti western, light, inspirational, sexy, enigmatic
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The Way West (1967)
Plot Summary:
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, retro, epic, road movie, wild
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
Plot Summary:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert). As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min
Plot tags: epic, captivating, talky, atmospheric, period piece, serious, realistic, erotic, controversial, stylized
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A Man Called Horse (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand/accept their lifestyles. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, scenic, intense, exciting, serious, captivating, epic, realistic, historical drama, independent film
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Windwalker (1980)
Plot Summary:
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians without a single cowboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Plot Summary:
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, epic, retro, entertaining, educational, smart, visually stunning, powerful
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True Grit (1969)
Plot Summary:
The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), on a mission of "justice", which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), because he has "grit", and a reputation of getting the job done. The two are joined by a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who is looking for the same man (Jeff Corey) for a separate murder in Texas. Their odyssey takes them from Fort Smith, Arkansas, deep into the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) to find their man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: stylized, suspense, harsh, exciting, spaghetti western, period piece, action adventure, serious, captivating, realistic
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Lonesome Dove (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lonesome Dove is a Western television miniseries based on Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Lonesome Dove was originally broadcast by CBS on February 5, 1989, drawing a huge viewing audience, earning numerous awards, and reviving both the television western and the miniseries.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 384 min
Plot tags: epic, touching, realistic, entertaining, anime, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, soap opera, serious
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Dances with Wolves (1990)
Plot Summary:
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: scenic, touching, breathtaking, sentimental, epic, sincere, emotional, period piece, inspirational, melancholic
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Dead Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating, offbeat, art house, surreal, tense, melancholic
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True Grit (2010)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 353000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, scenic, visually appealing, serious, captivating, dark
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Hostiles (2017)
Plot Summary:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, psychological, captivating, motivational, heartbreaking, serious, tear jerker, spaghetti western
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Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, rough, suspenseful, independent film, epic, period piece, bleak, serious, realistic
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, realistic, scenic, meditative, factual, serious, bleak, existential, spaghetti western
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The Revenant (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, atmospheric, scenic, exciting, visually stunning, suspenseful, harsh, rough, realistic, serious