Movies like Mud
If Mud's mix of sniper, friendship and bounty hunter stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Mud's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
- 1
Rooster Cogburn
1975 · Directed by Stuart Millar · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: arkansas, gun battle
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's…
- 2
Django Unchained
2012 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 165 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, bounty hunter · From the same decade (2010s)
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
- 3
Big Hero 6
2014 · Directed by Don Hall · 102 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, coming of age · From the same decade (2010s)
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
- 4
The Help
2011 · Directed by Tate Taylor · 146 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: mississippi river · From the same decade (2010s)
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers…
- 5
Dances with Wolves
1990 · Directed by Kevin Costner · 181 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: friendship
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with…
- 6
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 · Directed by Richard Brooks · 108 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: mississippi river
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident.
- 7
Walkabout
1971 · Directed by Nicolas Roeg · 95 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them.
- 8
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Directed by Stanley Kramer · 96 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: mississippi river
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
- 9
The Cowboys
1972 · Directed by Mark Rydell · 134 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gun battle
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster.
- 10
News of the World
2020 · Directed by Paul Greengrass · 118 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Ray McKinnon
A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
- 11
The River Wild
1994 · Directed by Curtis Hanson · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: river
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose…
- 12
The Dead Don't Hurt
2024 · Directed by Viggo Mortensen · 130 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Ray McKinnon
In the 1860s, fiercely independent French-Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy embarks on a journey with Danish immigrant Holger Olsen, attempting to forge a life together in the dusty town of Elk Flats, Nevada.