Movies like Surrender
If Surrender's mix of sheriff and texas stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Surrender's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Rio Bravo
1959 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 141 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Walter Brennan · Shares: sheriff, texas · Also western and drama · From the same decade (1950s)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
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El Dorado
1966 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 126 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith Paul Fix · Shares: sheriff, texas · Also western and drama
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their…
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Lone Star
1996 · Directed by John Sayles · 135 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, texas · Also drama and western
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Rio Lobo
1970 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 116 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, texas
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.
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Giant
1956 · Directed by George Stevens · 201 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: texas · Also drama and western · From the same decade (1950s)
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff · Also western and drama
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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No Country for Old Men
2007 · Directed by Joel Coen · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff, texas
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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Young Guns
1988 · Directed by Christopher Cain · 107 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff · Also western and drama
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.
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Big Jake
1971 · Directed by George Sherman · 110 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: texas
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.