Movies like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is a western movie directed by Joel Coen. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
★ 7.8 · 1,349 votes · Western
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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2. Stagecoach (1939)
★ 7.6 · 1,286 votes · Western
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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3. 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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4. Shanghai Noon (2000)
★ 6.4 · 2,884 votes · Adventure, Comedy, Western
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
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5. Blazing Saddles (1974)
★ 7.2 · 2,182 votes · Western, Comedy
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its population.
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6. Hell or High Water (2016)
★ 7.3 · 5,040 votes · Western, Crime, Drama
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. Little Big Man (1970)
★ 7.4 · 750 votes · Western, Comedy, Adventure
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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12. 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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