
Movies that feel like Red River (1948)
If you loved Red River, the closest films we have are My Darling Clementine (1946), Unforgiven (1992) and The Outfit (1973). All three share Red River's gritty and relentless feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.
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If Red River hit the spot, these will too

Both are working the same pair: revenge, black and white

Common ground: kansas, usa
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Red River does

Gritty and relentless in the same breath
The difference: Leans harder into action than Red River does

Gritty western in both cases
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Western built on relentlessness, twice over

Gritty western, and it commits to that

Both are built on the same subject: black and white
The difference: None of the relentlessness Red River is built on

The same preoccupation in both: texas

The same hand behind both of them: Howard Hawks

Both work the same relentlessness

A 1970s cousin in spirit
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