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Movies that feel likeA Fistful of Dollars (1964)

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

If you loved A Fistful of Dollars, the closest films we have are For a Few Dollars More (1965), Duck, You Sucker (1971) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). All three share A Fistful of Dollars' gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Fort Apache (1948).

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For a Few Dollars More
1965 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.2western

Both are Sergio Leone's work, and they rhyme

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

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Duck, You Sucker
1971 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5westernPrime Video

Sergio Leone working the same nerve twice

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.8western

The same two preoccupations: gun battle, and spaghetti western

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1western

Both are built on the same subject: gunslinger

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 outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

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True Grit
1969 Β· dir. Henry Hathaway
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4western

Both lean on grit more than on western

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 getting the job done.

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The Searchers
1956 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.8western

Western with a pulse of grit, in both cases

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

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Fort Apache
1948 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.4western

Gritty western, and it commits to that

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 Β· dir. William A. Wellman
πŸ… 90%β˜… 8western

Both know what they want from western

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1940s show

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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Stagecoach
1939 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8westernPrime VideoMax

The western is handled with the same confidence

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

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3:10 to Yuma
2007 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6western

Western of the same temperament

In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.

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Hang 'em High
1968 Β· dir. Ted Post
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7western Β· drama

Both play western straight

The difference: Sits closer to drama than A Fistful of Dollars does

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

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Giant
1956 Β· dir. George Stevens
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.6drama Β· western

Both are western through and through

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

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