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Movies that feel like My Darling Clementine (1946)

If you loved My Darling Clementine, the closest films we have are Fort Apache (1948), Red River (1948) and Stagecoach (1939). All three share My Darling Clementine's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Fordgrittymelancholyrelentless

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

The same hand behind both of them: John Ford

The difference: Missing the melancholy of My Darling Clementine

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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Red River
1948 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7western

Two things both keep coming back to: revenge and black and white

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protΓ©gΓ©.

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

John Ford working the same nerve twice

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

Common ground: 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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The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.8western

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1970s show

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.

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2drama Β· western

Gritty western, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than My Darling Clementine does

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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

Western built on grit, twice over

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

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

Common ground in both: saloon and 19th century

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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The Outfit
1973 Β· dir. John Flynn
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7crime Β· drama

Western with a pulse of relentlessness, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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Lady Snowblood
1973 Β· dir. Toshiya Fujita
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6action Β· crime Β· drama

The shared currency is relentlessness

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

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The Big Heat
1953 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9crime Β· thriller

Both sit in the same gritty register

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

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Sholay
1975 Β· dir. Ramesh Sippy
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1action

Both work the same melancholy

After his family is slain by notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.

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