Movies like Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate (1980) is a western movie directed by Michael Cimino. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
★ 6.8 · 710 votes · Western, Drama
In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.
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2. The Hateful Eight (2015)
★ 7.8 · 15,710 votes · Drama, Mystery, Western
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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3. Les Misérables (2012)
★ 7.3 · 5,716 votes · History, Drama
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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4. Hostiles (2017)
★ 7.0 · 2,605 votes · Drama, Western, History
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
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5. The Power of the Dog (2021)
★ 6.7 · 3,075 votes · Drama, Western
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.
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6. Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3 · 7,470 votes · Drama, History, Crime
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
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7. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
★ 7.2 · 481 votes · Drama, Western
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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8. High Plains Drifter (1973)
★ 7.3 · 1,404 votes · Western, Drama, Mystery
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
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9. Joe Kidd (1972)
★ 6.4 · 428 votes · Western, Drama
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
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10. Appaloosa (2008)
★ 6.6 · 1,142 votes · Drama, Western, Crime
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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11. Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
★ 6.7 · 476 votes · Western, Drama, TV Movie
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
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12. The Homesman (2014)
★ 6.5 · 913 votes · Western, Drama
When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
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13. The Quick and the Dead (1995)
★ 6.6 · 2,065 votes · Western, Action, Drama
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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