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Movies that feel likeThe Wild Bunch (1969)

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

If you loved The Wild Bunch, the closest films we have are The Magnificent Seven (1960), King of New York (1990) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). All three share The Wild Bunch's gritty 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… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Sam Peckinpahgrittywarmhopeful
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If The Wild Bunch hit the spot, these will too

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The Magnificent Seven
1960 Β· dir. John Sturges
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7western

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

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

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King of New York
1990 Β· dir. Abel Ferrara
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· crime

Gritty where it counts, hopeful underneath

The difference: Trades the warmth of The Wild Bunch 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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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Β· dir. George Roy Hill
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8western Β· crime Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: shootout

The difference: Easier on the hope than The Wild Bunch

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

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Wild Bunch 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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Midnight Cowboy
1969 Β· dir. John Schlesinger
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: texas

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

Gritty western in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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

Warm western, and it commits to that

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

Western with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

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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Duck, You Sucker
1971 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5westernPrime Video

One thread runs through both: robbery

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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

Both work the same hope

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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Awakenings
1990 Β· dir. Penny Marshall
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.8drama

Both run hopeful where it counts

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

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

A 2000s answer to the same itch

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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