Movies like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) is a western movie directed by Sergio Leone. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
★ 7.8 · 4,916 votes · Western
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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2. The Great Silence (1968)
★ 7.5 · 484 votes · Western, Drama
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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3. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
★ 8.0 · 4,653 votes · Western
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
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4. The Proposition (2005)
★ 7.0 · 752 votes · Western, Drama
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.
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5. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
★ 6.3 · 2,500 votes · Action, Crime, Thriller
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.
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6. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
★ 7.5 · 1,353 votes · Western
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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7. The Wild Bunch (1969)
★ 7.6 · 1,392 votes · Western
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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8. The Sisters Brothers (2018)
★ 6.8 · 2,172 votes · Western, Drama, Comedy
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
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9. True Grit (2010)
★ 7.3 · 5,966 votes · Drama, Adventure, Western
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
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10. The Hateful Eight (2015)
★ 7.8 · 15,711 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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11. Young Guns (1988)
★ 6.7 · 1,093 votes · Western
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
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12. Bone Tomahawk (2015)
★ 6.9 · 2,664 votes · Drama, Horror, Western
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
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13. Pale Rider (1985)
★ 7.2 · 1,264 votes · Western, Drama
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
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14. 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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