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Movies that feel like The Wild Bunch (1969)

If you loved The Wild Bunch, the closest films we have are The Magnificent Seven (1960), True Grit (1969) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). All three share The Wild Bunch's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 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 aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Sam Peckinpahgrittywarmhopeful

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The Magnificent Seven
1960 Β· dir. John Sturges
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7western Β· action Β· adventure

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Wild Bunch does

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

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

The same preoccupation in both: bounty hunter

The difference: Missing the warmth of The Wild Bunch

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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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Β· dir. George Roy Hill
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8western Β· crime Β· drama

One thread runs through both: shootout

The difference: Not nearly as hopeful as The Wild Bunch

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

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

Common ground: friendship

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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King of New York
1990 Β· dir. Abel Ferrara
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· crime

Gritty where it counts, hopeful underneath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: robbery

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

Warm western, and it commits to that

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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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
1953 Β· dir. Jacques Tati
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3comedy

Both are built on the same subject: underdog

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

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

Both are built on the same subject: texas

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

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Midnight Cowboy
1969 Β· dir. John Schlesinger
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: texas

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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Triumph of the Will
1935 Β· dir. Leni Riefenstahl
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1documentary

Western built on hope, twice over

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

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

Western with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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