Movies like The Missing
If The Missing's mix of daughter, mexico and new mexico stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Missing's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Revenant
2015 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: frontier, 19th century · Also western and adventure
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Hostiles
2017 · Directed by Scott Cooper · 134 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: new mexico, 19th century · Also western and adventure
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
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No Country for Old Men
2007 · Directed by Joel Coen · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itWith Tommy Lee Jones · Also thriller and western · From the same decade (2000s)
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail.
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Little Big Man
1970 · Directed by Arthur Penn · 139 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also western and adventure
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
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The Professionals
1966 · Directed by Richard Brooks · 117 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: mexico · Also western and adventure
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
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The Warrior's Way
2010 · Directed by Lee Seung-moo · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also adventure and western
A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
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The Unholy Trinity
2025 · Directed by Richard Gray · 95 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also western and adventure
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana, in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn’t…
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Killer Elite
2011 · Directed by Gary McKendry · 116 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: mexico · Also adventure and thriller
Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society.