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Movies that feel likeTombstone (1993)

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

If you loved Tombstone, the closest films we have are Django (1966), Chocolate (2008) and The Way of the Dragon (1972). All three share Tombstone's gritty and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Enforcement (2020).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George P. Cosmatosgrittykinetic
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Django
1966 · dir. Sergio Corbucci
🍅 94%★ 7.2action · western

The same mix in both: grit, then momentum

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · crime

Gritty action, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Tombstone does

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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The Way of the Dragon
1972 · dir. Bruce Lee
🍅 88%★ 7.1action · crime

Western built on momentum, twice over

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

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Iron Monkey
1993 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 91%★ 7.5action · crime · drama

Both lean on grit more than on action

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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Brother
1997 · dir. Aleksei Balabanov
🍅 100%★ 7.7crime · drama · action

Kinetic western in both cases

Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.

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El Mariachi
1993 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 91%★ 6.8action · crime · thriller

Both know what they want from western

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

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3:10 to Yuma
2007 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 89%★ 7.6western

The same two preoccupations: saloon, and arizona

The difference: Trades the momentum of Tombstone for an angle of its own

In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.

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Enforcement
2020 · dir. Anders Ølholm
🍅 82%★ 6.5action · crimeRent or buy

The action is handled with the same confidence

The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

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Parker
2013 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 42%★ 6.2action · crime

Action of the same temperament

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.

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Hard Boiled
1992 · dir. John Woo
🍅 92%★ 7.7action · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Both play action straight

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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Infernal Affairs III
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
★ 6.8crime · drama · actionMax

The same action instincts

Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.

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Elite Squad
2007 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 53%★ 8drama · action · crime

Cut from the same action cloth

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

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