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Movies that feel like The Magnificent Seven (1960)

If you loved The Magnificent Seven, the closest films we have are The Magnificent Seven (2016), The Wild Bunch (1969) and The Hidden Fortress (1958). All three share The Magnificent Seven's warm 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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Sturgesgrittykineticepiccontemplativewarmhopeful
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If The Magnificent Seven hit the spot, these will too

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The Magnificent Seven
2016 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· action Β· western

Both are working the same pair: friendship, gunslinger

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

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The Wild Bunch
1969 Β· dir. Sam Peckinpah
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9western

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: None of the momentum The Magnificent Seven is built on

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

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The Hidden Fortress
1958 Β· dir. Akira Kurosawa
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8drama Β· action Β· adventure

Both land momentum and scale at once

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

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Fearless
2006 Β· dir. Ronny Yu
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.6drama Β· action

The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

After going through a series of tragic events in his life, martial arts master Huo Yuanjia returns to Tianjin and must fight four international soldiers, in order to safeguard his nation's pride.

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Shane
1953 Β· dir. George Stevens
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.6drama Β· western

Both lean on grit more than on western

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 Β· dir. John Huston
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.2adventure Β· drama Β· western

Common ground: bandit

Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.

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

One thread runs through both: cowboy

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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Blood and Bone
2009 Β· dir. Ben Ramsey
β˜… 6.7action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: inspirational

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Magnificent Seven does

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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Old Yeller
1957 Β· dir. Robert Stevenson
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· drama Β· family

Gritty adventure in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into family than The Magnificent Seven does

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

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Iron Mask
2019 Β· dir. Oleg Stepchenko
πŸ… 21%β˜… 4.7action Β· adventure Β· family

Both are built on the same subject: inspirational

Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventuresβ€”making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.

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Dersu Uzala
1975 Β· dir. Akira Kurosawa
πŸ… 73%β˜… 8.2adventure Β· drama

Drama built on scale, twice over

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

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The Man from Hong Kong
1975 Β· dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.5action Β· crime Β· adventure

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.

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