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Movies that feel likeThe Magnificent Seven (1960)

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

If you loved The Magnificent Seven, the closest films we have are The Wild Bunch (1969), The Magnificent Seven (2016) and Shane (1953). All three share The Magnificent Seven's gritty and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is In America (2003).

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. John Sturgesgrittywarmhopeful
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The Wild Bunch
1969 Β· dir. Sam Peckinpah
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9western

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

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The Magnificent Seven
2016 Β· dir. Antoine Fuqua
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· action Β· western

Both are working the same pair: gunslinger, village

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less hopeful than The Magnificent Seven does

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… 72%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· crime

Gritty and hopeful in the same breath

The difference: Trades the warmth of The Magnificent Seven for an angle of its own

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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Hope
2013 Β· dir. Lee Joon-ik
β˜… 8.2drama

Western with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Magnificent Seven does

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1western

One thread runs through both: cowboy

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

Both lean on warmth more than on western

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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Fearless
2006 Β· dir. Ronny Yu
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.5drama Β· action

Warm western in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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

The shared currency is grit

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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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 89%β˜… 9.3drama Β· crime

Both run hopeful where it counts

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

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In America
2003 Β· dir. Jim Sheridan
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7drama

Common ground: inspirational

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Swades
2004 Β· dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
πŸ… 90%β˜… 8.2dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: inspirational

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

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