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Movies that feel likeMy Darling Clementine (1946)

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

If you loved My Darling Clementine, the closest films we have are Fort Apache (1948), Red River (1948) and Stagecoach (1939). All three share My Darling Clementine's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Outfit (1973).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Fordgrittyrelentless
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If My Darling Clementine hit the spot, these will too

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Fort Apache
1948 · dir. John Ford
🍅 100%★ 7.4western

The same hand behind both of them: John Ford

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than My Darling Clementine

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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Red River
1948 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 100%★ 7.7western · drama · adventure

Two things both keep coming back to: revenge and black and white

The difference: Sits closer to drama than My Darling Clementine does

Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.

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Stagecoach
1939 · dir. John Ford
🍅 100%★ 7.8westernPrime VideoMax

John Ford working the same nerve twice

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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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · dir. John Ford
🍅 95%★ 8.1western

Common ground: gunslinger

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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The Outfit
1973 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 86%★ 7crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1970s show

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · dir. John Ford
🍅 91%★ 7.2drama · western

Gritty western, and it commits to that

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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The Salvation
2014 · dir. Kristian Levring
🍅 72%★ 6.7drama · westernParamount+

Both lean on relentlessness more than on western

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

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The Searchers
1956 · dir. John Ford
🍅 87%★ 7.8western

Western built on grit, twice over

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

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Unforgiven
1992 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 96%★ 8.2western

The shared currency is relentlessness

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.

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The Virgin Spring
1960 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 88%★ 8drama · history

Both sit in the same gritty register

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

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Lady Snowblood
1973 · dir. Toshiya Fujita
🍅 100%★ 7.6action · crime · dramaMax

Both run relentless where it counts

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

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In the Fade
2017 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 75%★ 7.1drama · crimePrime Video

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

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