15 Movies Like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Loved The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Once Upon a Time in the West
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Hateful Eight
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
The Magnificent Seven
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
True Grit
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
They Call Me Trinity
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Pale Rider
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Trinity Is Still My Name
The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Django
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Bone Tomahawk
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Duck, You Sucker
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.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
A Pistol for Ringo
Giuliano Gemma stars as a cool, cocky mercenary enlisted by a sheriff to infiltrate a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ennio Morricone provided the score to this early spaghetti western hit.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Young Guns
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.